Arrested in June 2019 by the Revolutionary Guards while doing fieldwork in Iran, the anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah had to wait until January 2023 to be pardoned by the Islamic Republic of Iran, then October of the same year to be authorized to return to France, where she is research director at the CNRS. In the meantime, she will have spent most of her time in prison, without anyone explaining to her why – something she still does not know today. She could have, on her return, published an account of her captivity, which is what we think we will find if we look at the cover title of the book she is publishing these days, “Prisoner in Tehran”. This would be a poor understanding of this great researcher who for nothing in the world would have stopped being an anthropologist just because she had become a prisoner. It is therefore an investigative book that she is publishing today, on a new Iranian terrain, a terrain that she had not chosen: the all too famous Evin prison. This week she is the guest of La Suite dans les Idées.
In the second part Fariba Adelkhah will be joined by the dancer Bilal Alami Badissi.
And for the section, it is the president of the National Research Agency, Claire Giry who joins us.
To go further:
- Prisoner in Tehran: an ethnologist detained in Iranian jails, Fariba Adelkhah, Seuil, 2024
Claire Giry, President of the National Research Agency, will be the guest of the news section this week.
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