GUITI’S
MEMORY
Guiti was 14 years old in 1979. She lived with her family in Isfahan. She told us about her memories on August 24, 2016.
Listen to Guiti recall the historical radio broadcast announcing that the Shah has left. She remembers her own shock and her father’s memorable comment.
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Guiti recounts her youthful earnestness when participating in street protests, which at times got her in trouble.
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Guiti describes graffiti culture during the revolution. She remembers how the walls of her family’s home was an ever-growing record of revolutionary slogans.
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Guiti remembers what it was like navigating revolutionary participation as a young woman.
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For Guiti, Maxim Gorky’s book The Mother was a guide to how a revolution happens. Here she describes the book and what she learned from it.
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