The Iranian legend Googoosh at home. (Credit: Photo provided by her PR team)
The interview was scheduled for the very end of 2025 – to discuss the release of her landmark autobiography, "A Sinful Voice," co-written with Tara Dehlavi – when, on Dec. 28, a wave of dissident protests erupted in her native Iran.As the ultraviolent crackdown of a regime all too aware of its own fragility faced the largest protest movement in its recent history, Googoosh chose, for many weeks, to speak only through op-eds, letters to the White House, and appearances at solidarity rallies for her people, both in the United States and Europe.A mirror for a country in the midst of a cultural transformation, an emblem of a golden age that saw miniskirts and ball gowns, receptions in marble palaces and concerts in cabarets, she whom Arab writers have dubbed the "Persian Fairuz" – so deeply does she remain a symbol of...
The interview was scheduled for the very end of 2025 – to discuss the release of her landmark autobiography, "A Sinful Voice," co-written with Tara Dehlavi – when, on Dec. 28, a wave of dissident protests erupted in her native Iran.As the ultraviolent crackdown of a regime all too aware of its own fragility faced the largest protest movement in its recent history, Googoosh chose, for many weeks, to speak only through op-eds, letters to the White House, and appearances at solidarity rallies for her people, both in the United States and Europe.A mirror for a country in the midst of a cultural transformation, an emblem of a golden age that saw miniskirts and ball gowns, receptions in marble palaces and concerts in cabarets, she whom Arab writers have dubbed the "Persian Fairuz" – so deeply does she remain a symbol...
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