Elahe Boghrat

Elahe Boghrat was born in 1957 in Sari (northern Iran) to a cultural family. She began her university studies at the National University of Iran (Tehran) in the field of jurisprudence and graduated in 1975, but did not pass the 14-units course in Islamic education (which was made compulsory after the revolution). As a result, the university refused to grant her a degree for years.

Boghrat became a member of the Communist Organization of the People’s Fedayeen in 1980 and had a political and semi-secret organizational life until 1989. In 1990, she intellectually and in practice left the Fadaiyan organization and secretly and illegally left Iran and fled to Germany. She received her refuge status (refuge asylum) in Germany, and in 1993 started studying at the University of Berlin, where she received a bachelor’s degree in political science. After graduation she started working full-time as a journalist.

Her first job was launching a website called “Journalist” and since 1995 she has been writing analytical-political articles for Kayhan London (an independent news magazine) and since 2013 she has been the editor in chief.

Elahe Boghrat also has two collections of short stories called “Feminine” and “Crazy House Notes” and a book called “Names and Looks” which is a collection of her conversations with literary and artistic figures.