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Yousuf and Farhad

Yousuf and Farhad

Amir Soltani
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Following the Facebook serialization of a love story, "Yousef and Farhad," about a gay couple in Iran, OutRight Action International, the global human rights organization, has released the full 20-page graphic novel to download for free.

The commissioned graphic novel, though a work of fiction, reflects the real life struggles for acceptance of LGBTIQ people in Iran and across the world. OutRight created the graphic novel in partnership with the Algerian-American political cartoonist Khalil Bendib, and the award-winning Iranian-American author Amir Soltani, creator of the best-selling graphic novel, “Zahra’s Paradise.”

As is true too often in real life, the two characters in the novel are rejected and ostracized by family as they try to assert their basic right to love.

“With this extraordinary novel, we hope to reach Iranian families struggling with the sexual orientation of their loved ones with an appeal for acceptance and dignity,” OutRight Executive Director Jessica Stern wrote in an Introduction to the novel.

Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, in a foreword to the novel, speaks to the hope for respect, dignity and acceptance that many Iranians seek: “I long for the day when we all accept that all human beings have the right to be diverse and live their lives differently from others.”

In his afterword, Amir Soltani writes: “When OutRight Action International invited us... to collaborate on a campaign to raise awareness about the state of the LGBTIQ community in Iran, Khalil and I knew we had to jump in. Who can resist an invitation to launch a true jihad- a jihad for love?”
Language
English
Pages
36
Format
ebook
Publisher
OutRight Action International
Release
May 09, 2022
ISBN 13
9780692593714

Yousuf and Farhad

Amir Soltani
4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Following the Facebook serialization of a love story, "Yousef and Farhad," about a gay couple in Iran, OutRight Action International, the global human rights organization, has released the full 20-page graphic novel to download for free.

The commissioned graphic novel, though a work of fiction, reflects the real life struggles for acceptance of LGBTIQ people in Iran and across the world. OutRight created the graphic novel in partnership with the Algerian-American political cartoonist Khalil Bendib, and the award-winning Iranian-American author Amir Soltani, creator of the best-selling graphic novel, “Zahra’s Paradise.”

As is true too often in real life, the two characters in the novel are rejected and ostracized by family as they try to assert their basic right to love.

“With this extraordinary novel, we hope to reach Iranian families struggling with the sexual orientation of their loved ones with an appeal for acceptance and dignity,” OutRight Executive Director Jessica Stern wrote in an Introduction to the novel.

Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, in a foreword to the novel, speaks to the hope for respect, dignity and acceptance that many Iranians seek: “I long for the day when we all accept that all human beings have the right to be diverse and live their lives differently from others.”

In his afterword, Amir Soltani writes: “When OutRight Action International invited us... to collaborate on a campaign to raise awareness about the state of the LGBTIQ community in Iran, Khalil and I knew we had to jump in. Who can resist an invitation to launch a true jihad- a jihad for love?”
Language
English
Pages
36
Format
ebook
Publisher
OutRight Action International
Release
May 09, 2022
ISBN 13
9780692593714

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