The Wind in My Hair

Alinejad grew up in a rural Iranian village, became a journalist and parliamentarian, and was eventually forced into exile after posting a photograph of herself running in a field without a hijab — a photo that launched a global movement. This memoir is the dispatch from inside the Iranian women's resistance movement — not the version told from Western capitals but the version lived inside the country, by women who remove their headscarves in public and hold them up as flags of protest knowing they will be arrested. Alinejad writes about courage as something ordinary women do in specific moments on specific streets. The most direct Iranian feminist dispatch on this shelf.