Reza Shafa’i, alias Gil Avaei, writer, poet, human rights activist, member of the Iranian Writer’s Association in Exile and Iranian PEN Exile, was born in April 1956 near to the city Lahijan in North Iran. His literary debut was in 1979: With the Siahkal movement he commenced his offensive political activism and after the revolution of 1979 he strengthened his political and literary engagement in cultural and political communities and unions.
Amin Ghazaei - born in Teheran 1979 - is a leading activist of the leftist student movement in Iran and a reputed writer and journalist with broad curriculum of articles in different Iranian journals since. For his political activities and writings, he was arrested 2007 by the Iranian government, interrogated and tortured. Next to his political engagement, he is accepted as one of Iran’s prominent theoreticians in the fields of philosophy, feminism, and Marxism, where he has written and translated an acknowledged portfolio of books and papers.
Kamran Mir Hazar was born in Daikondy province in
central Afghanistan. His wife Zahra was born and grew up in Iran. His familiy
immigrated from Afghanistan 31 years ago, when he was a young boy. He returned
to Afghanistan from Iran in 2003, and some months later his wife joined him.
As an outspoken journalist and advocate of free speech
in Iran Kamran faced persecution and censorship. This regularly affected his wife
and their families.
Kamran began writing more than 15 years ago, when he
was a secondary student in Mashad, Iran. At age 18, he was awarded a bronze
medal for being the best poetry student in Iran. During the same period, he was
awarded a Khorasan Province student writing and poetry prize.
On a sweltering Thursday afternoon in the summer of old Tehran, a six-year-old Fereydoun Moezi Moghadam stumbles out of the Cinema Mihan at the corner of Hassan-Abad. Linking one hand with his beloved grandmother's, Fereydoun Moezi rubs his bleary eyes with the back of the other in a desperate attempt to readjust not only to the sunlight, but also to reality. While the theatre marquee above advertises the world of Richard Thorpe's "Tarzan Finds a Son," a world in which "good" always triumphs over "evil," when the movie reel ends, we are all forced to face a future more volatile than scripted.
It was on this day in Iran in 1946, that Fereydoun Moezi decided his future. He decided that he wanted nothing more than to be the son of Tarzan, and if the magical world of cinema is the powerhouse Tarzan, well then Fereydoun Moezi has achieved recognition as one of it's most doting sons.
Robab Moheb was born 1953 in south east of Iran (Ahvaz) next to the Iran/Iraq boarder. After finalizing secondary school, she studied sociology at the University of Teheran. In 1992, Robab Moheb, left Iran for Swedish Exile, where she lives until today. She was engaged as teacher in Stockholm, where she received in 2004 her Bachelor in Pedagogical Sciences from the University of Växjö and her Master Degree from the University of Stockholm.
As a poet, Robab began her work in early teenage times, but hiding her works from her family and her father, who strictly prohibited her to write due their own conservative ideals and believing. Hence, her first collection of short stories, which was written for teenagers, was published under cover by the pseudonym Golnar Moheb (1979 Negah Publishing Tehran/Iran).
Amin Ghazaei - born in Teheran 1979 - is a leading activist of the leftist student movement in Iran and a reputed writer and journalist with broad curriculum of articles in different Iranian journals since. For his political activities and writings, he was arrested 2007 by the Iranian government, interrogated and tortured. Next to his political engagement, he is accepted as one of Iran’s prominent theoreticians in the fields of philosophy, feminism, and Marxism, where he has written and translated an acknowledged portfolio of books and papers.
On a sweltering Thursday afternoon in the summer of old Tehran, a six-year-old 
Robab Moheb was born 1953 in south east of Iran (Ahvaz) next to the Iran/Iraq boarder. After finalizing secondary school, she studied sociology at the University of Teheran. In 1992, Robab Moheb, left Iran for Swedish Exile, where she lives until today. She was engaged as teacher in Stockholm, where she received in 2004 her Bachelor in Pedagogical Sciences from the University of Växjö and her Master Degree from the University of Stockholm.