num_pages: 143
description: The poems in Fifty Shades of Grey in Tehran speak only to those who can decipher subverting the tyranny of censorship the universal encrypted language of the other.The words in Fifty Shades of Grey in Tehran are witnesses to a world of disappearing husbands and missing sons hoping to be recorded and archived. The multifaceted realities of a bare life (read The Female / The Opposition / The Jew / The Muslims / The Rebel / The Addict / The Victim / The Ethnic / The Poet / The Sunni / The Illegals / The Dreamers / The Refugees ...) don't seem to vary.In this era of Military-Industrial-Surveillance Complex  in the age of revolutionary dictatorship regime writing poems perhaps are an act of catharsis to cope with the social trauma one has to live with on a daily basis.Fifty Shades of Grey in Tehran is a testimony of time struggling to hold its memories against a collective cultural amnesia that is haunting the third rock from the sun.
language: English
title: Fifty Shades of Grey in Tehran
publisher: Charcha