Ava Homa is an award-winning novelist, a journalist, and activist. Her debut novel Daughters of Smoke and Fire (2020) is the story of a Kurdish woman’s search for justice and freedom. The story has been described as being prescient in portraying what is happening now with the uprisings in Iran, spurred by the death of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini. Daughters Of Smoke And Fire is inspired by the life of Kurdish human rights activist Farzad Kamangar and was published to coincide with the 10th anniversary of his execution.
Daughters Of Smoke And Fire gives voice to human struggles and issues of justice and inequity that we’re seeing with increased frequency across the globe.
Ava's message is, "a victory for women in Iran is really a victory for women everywhere.'"
This message is expressed in an essay Ava wrote in December 2022 for, “Journal of Critical Race Inquiry” an open-access electronic journal that advances scholarship on race and racialization in Canadian and international contexts. Her piece is titled: The Path to Freedom in Iran is through Women and Minorities.
It introduces readers to the history of Kurdish resistance to oppression by the Iranian regime as well as the history of the refrain “Woman, Life, Freedom,” chanted now by protesters and adopted by activists and others around the world.
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