Mona Borzouei

Mona Borzouee
Mona Borzouee
Native name	مونا برزویی
Born	9 May 1984 (age 40); Shiraz, Iran
Occupation	Poet, songwriter
Language	Persian
Years active	2003–present
Signature
Website
	borzouei.net

Mona Borzouee (Persian: مونا برزویی) is an Iranian poet and songwriter. Borzouee is known for writing Persian song lyrics for several well-known Iranian musicians. She was arrested in October 2022 during the Iranian protests following the death of Mahsa Amini.

Background

Borzouee first gained recognition for writing the lyrics to Shadmehr Aghili's song, Ashk-e man (Persian: اشک من, lit. "my tear") in 2003. She has written song lyrics for many of Iran's most celebrated Persian-speaking musicians, including Aref, Googoosh, Ebi, Mehdi Yarrahi, Shadmehr Aghili, Majid Akhshabi, Ali Lohrasbi, and Ehsan Khajeh Amiri.^[1]

In 2013, she published a collection of her lyrics, titled Taghdir (Persian: تقدیر, lit. "destiny").^[2]

Allameh Tabataba'i University cancelled Borzouee's workshop on songwriting after Iran's state TV ran a disparaging news segment about her.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Arrest

Security forces arrested Borzouee on 28 September 2022, during Mahsa Amini protests, for statements she had made on her twitter account.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Sources

^ اقتصاد, روزنامه دنیای (25 December 2014). "روزگار برزخی ترانه". روزنامه دنیای اقتصاد (in Persian). Retrieved 13 October 2022.
^ "«مونا برزویی» با همراهی مخاطبانش از کتاب «تقدیر» رونمایی کرد". Musicema.com (in Persian). 13 October 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
^ "حاشیه سازی 20:30 برای ترانه‌سرای خوش‌نام موسیقی!". موزیک پارس (in Persian). 14 November 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
^ "روزنامه کیهان (1393/04/01): تند باد ارتجاع از کارگاه ادبی مشارکتی‌ها". Magiran (in Persian). 22 June 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
^ "گزارش 20:30 از خبر کارگاه ترانه‌سرایی در دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی +فیلم". خبرنامه دانشجویان ایران (in Persian). 10 December 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
^ "سیزدهمین روز اعتراضات؛ بازداشت مونا برزویی در تهران". IranWire (in Persian). 29 September 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
^ "مونا برزویی، شاعر و ترانه‌سرا، بازداشت شد". ایران اینترنشنال (in Persian). 29 September 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
^ سایت VOA آخرین شعر مونا برزویی قبل از بازداشت برای مهسا امینی

[اقتصاد_2014-1] اقتصاد, روزنامه دنیای (25 December 2014). "روزگار برزخی ترانه". روزنامه دنیای اقتصاد (in Persian). Retrieved 13 October 2022.

[Musicema.com_2022-2] "«مونا برزویی» با همراهی مخاطبانش از کتاب «تقدیر» رونمایی کرد". Musicema.com (in Persian). 13 October 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.

[موزیک_پارس_2015-3] "حاشیه سازی 20:30 برای ترانه‌سرای خوش‌نام موسیقی!". موزیک پارس (in Persian). 14 November 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2022.

[Magiran_2014-4] "روزنامه کیهان (1393/04/01): تند باد ارتجاع از کارگاه ادبی مشارکتی‌ها". Magiran (in Persian). 22 June 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2022.

[خبرنامه_دانشجویان_ایران_2017-5] "گزارش 20:30 از خبر کارگاه ترانه‌سرایی در دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی +فیلم". خبرنامه دانشجویان ایران (in Persian). 10 December 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2022.

[IranWire_2022-6] "سیزدهمین روز اعتراضات؛ بازداشت مونا برزویی در تهران". IranWire (in Persian). 29 September 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.

[ایران_اینترنشنال_2022-7] "مونا برزویی، شاعر و ترانه‌سرا، بازداشت شد". ایران اینترنشنال (in Persian). 29 September 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.

[8] سایت VOA آخرین شعر مونا برزویی قبل از بازداشت برای مهسا امینی

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

v t e Political prisoners in Iran
Prison
Activists	Habib Afkari Raheleh Ahmadi Maryam Akbari Monfared Zahra Bahrami Emad Bahavar Esmail Bakhshi Mahmudali Chehregani Atena Daemi Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee Amir Abbas Fakhravar Alireza Farshi Parvaneh Forouhar Ali-Asghar Gharavi Kouhyar Goudarzi Zeynab Jalalian Vida Hajebi Tabrizi Saeed Hajjarian Leila Hosseinzadeh Soheila Hejab Jafar Kazemi Amir Khorram Amir Khosrow Dalirsani Dhabihu'llah Mahrami Mohammad Maleki Azar Mansouri Farideh Mashini Mohsen Mirdamadi Ahmad Moftizadeh Narges Mohammadi Abdollah Momeni Youcef Nadarkhani Shiva Nazar Ahari Keyvan Rafiee Alireza Rajaei Arash Sadeghi Mahan Sadrat Fatemeh Sepehri Kavous Seyed-Emami Reza Shahabi Jamshid Sharmahd Ghasem Sholeh-Saadi Abbas Lisani Ali Shariati Majid Tavakoli Habibollah Peyman Sayed Ziaoddin Nabavi
Actors	Taraneh Alidoosti Hengameh Ghaziani Katayoun Riahi
Artists	Atena Farghadani Amir Emad Mirmirani
Athletes	Voria Ghafouri Ali Akbar Heidari Mohammad Karimi Hossein Mahini Amir Reza Nasr Azadani Navid Afkari
Bloggers	Soheil Arabi Sattar Beheshti
Doctors	Nasser Fahimi Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi Mohammad Ali Taheri
Filmmakers	Keywan Karimi Jafar Panahi Mahnaz Mohammadi Mohammad Nourizad Hossein Rajabian Mohammad Rasoulof
Journalists	Bahman Ahmadi Amouee Mahsa Amrabadi Ahmad Batebi Masoud Bastani Abdolali Bazargan Mohammad Ghouchani Niloofar Hamedi Adnan Hassanpour Zahra Kazemi Masoud Lavasani Saeed Laylaz Elaheh Mohammadi Sam Mahmoudi Said Matinpour Kasra Nouri Siamak Pourzand Hossein Rafiee Taghi Rahmani Roxana Saberi Majid Saeedi Faraj Sarkohi Kianush Sanjari Mohsen Sazegara Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand Hengameh Shahidi Mashallah Shamsolvaezin Heshmat Tabarzadi Roya Toloui Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Ruhollah Zam Ahmad Zeidabadi
Lawyers	Mohammad Ali Dadkhah Saleh Kamrani Nasrin Sotoudeh Shadi Sadr Mohammad Seifzadeh Abdolfattah Soltani
Military	Amir Farshad Ebrahimi Saeed Emami Akbar Ganji Hamid Pourmand
Musicians	Dariush Eghbali Shervin Hajipour Mehdi Rajabian Toomaj Salehi Mehdi Yarrahi
Programmer	Amir Emad Mirmirani
Poets	Baktash Abtin MohammadReza Alee Payam Mona Borzouei Piruz Dilanchi Mehdi Akhavan-Sales Mohammad-Taqi Bahar Keramat Daneshian Arzhang Davoodi Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi Khosrow Golsorkhi Morteza Keyvan Ahmad Shamlou Sedigheh Vasmaghi
Politicians	Mohsen Aminzadeh Morteza Alviri Shahrbanoo Amani Abbas Amir-Entezam Mohsen Armin Mohammad Atrianfar Seyyed Ebrahim Amini Emadeddin Baghi Jila Baniyaghoob Mehdi Bazargan Nasrollah Entezam Iraj Eskandari Hossein Fatemi Dariush Forouhar Sadegh Ghotbzadeh Mehdi Hajati Bahareh Hedayat Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani Amir Hossein Heshmat Saran Amir-Abbas Hoveyda Anvar Khamei Mohammad-Reza Khatami Khalil Maleki Mir-Hossein Mousavi Ali-Akbar Mousavi Khoeini Farajollah Mizani Ahmad Moftizadeh Behzad Nabavi Abdollah Nouri Reza Radmanesh Abdollah Ramezanzadeh Gholam Hossein Sadighi Abolghasem Sarhaddizadeh Ali Shakouri-Rad Ali Shariati Mahdi Tajik Mostafa Tajzadeh Mansour Osanlou Ebrahim Yazdi
Scientists	Taqi Arani Ramin Jahanbegloo Omid Kokabee Seyed Hossein Mousavian Ehsan Tabari Kian Tajbakhsh
Writers	Ali Mohammad Afghani Bozorg Alavi Najaf Daryabandari Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Mahmoud Etemadzadeh Ahmad Mahmoud Abbas Milani Shahrokh Meskoob Fariborz Raisdana Ahmad Samii Gilani Brayim Younisi Kourosh Zaim Nasser Zarafshan Sadegh Zibakalam
Category:Political prisoners in Iran

Background

Arrest

See also

Sources