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Majid (pseudonym) comes from a mixed Iranian–Turkish background and lived in Iran for twenty-nine years. He started writing in 2018. His debut,The Ayatollah’s Gaze, is his eye-opening life story of growing up as a gay man in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Majid now lives in the UK where he is a practicing doctor, living with his partner and two cats.
Podcasts
A conversation about shame, courage, exile — and the quiet ways queer Iranians keep finding each other.
"A real window into a world which I might not otherwise ever have known about. This is Majid's story. but it's also the story of a generation of young men in Tehran."
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