Sarguzasht-i Dīgarān Persiska (Farsi) 2026

Other People’s Stories is not the biography of a single individual; it is the story of an era experienced by several generations of Iranians. In this book, Arman Mostofi begins with his birthplace and childhood, but soon moves beyond the boundaries of personal memory, drawing the reader into the heart of modern Iranian history: from the cities of northern Iran and the University of Tehran to the media landscape before the Revolution; from the turbulent days surrounding the collapse of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s regime to exile, migration, and years of work in Persian-language media abroad.

The book is a remembrance of the people, places, events, and judgments that have remained in the author’s memory, a memory that is candid, unsparing, and at times bitter. Mostofi does not write as a detached and impartial historian, but as an engaged and perceptive witness, recounting what he saw, heard, and experienced. He writes about the people he encountered along the way, the institutions in which he worked, the beliefs that changed over time, and a generation left suspended between hope, error, defeat, and exile.

In Other People’s Stories, memory and history become intertwined. Personal recollection turns into a record of an era, while the life of one individual becomes a mirror reflecting the story of a society that remains in dialogue, and often in conflict, with its own past.

This book is for readers who wish to encounter modern Iranian history not only through official documents, but through the testimony of someone who lived through many of its defining events and has not shied away from remembering them.