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Elham Malekpoor Arashlu () or Elham Malepoor is an Iranian poet, writer and journalist. She was born in Iran and she is semi-blind.


Biography

Elham was born in July 1983 in Iran. She graduated from Kerman University in
Persian literature Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources have been within Greater Iran including present-day ...
. She lives in
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and works as an
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activist, writer, and poet. Elham left Iran in September 2012 due to threats against her. She has been a member of
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in the Netherlands since 2016. Elham worked in JoopeA Foundation as a member of management team from 2015 to 2018.


Books

Elham published her first book of poems ''Jamaica is a country too...'' () in 2006 in Iran. Malekpoor is also the author of the books ''A chair to sit'' (), ''Historiography of Homan'' () and ''Breaking the invertebrate flesh'' ().


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Personal website
1983 births 21st-century Iranian journalists Iranian human rights activists Iranian women's rights activists Living people Iranian LGBTQ rights activists Iranian LGBTQ poets Iranian LGBTQ journalists Iranian women poets Women civil rights activists {{LGBT-activist-stub