Narges Mohammadi picked up Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid ‘s Story whereas in jail. The activist had been sentenced to 16 years for difficult Iran’s enforcement of what Mohammadi terms gender apartheid—a system of gown codes, sexual subjugation, and coercive management enforced, as in Atwood’s guide, by males who’ve taken energy as a theocracy.
Mohammadi was nonetheless in jail when she won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2023. However in December, after she underwent surgery, Iranian authorities allowed her to return to dwelling on a three-week medical go away. Mohammadi, 52, made essentially the most of her freedom, lastly speaking (and singing) to the Nobel committee, giving interviews, posting on social media from the fence at Zanjan Central Jail—and reaching out, by PEN America, to Atwood.
On Dec. 18, TIME and a translator hosted the Canadian creator, 85, on a video name with Mohammadi. One girl wrote a guide. The opposite has been dwelling in it.
