A Boy, Water, and a Protest

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A Story Within

A 12- or 13-year-old boy, originally from Javanrood, was swimming with his friends in the a roadside waterhole near Ravansar. He told me he had been arrested during the 2022 protests following the death of Mahsa Amini and bore visible signs of torture. Yet, that day, he and his friends were full of joy, playing as if nothing had ever happened. He had dived into the water wearing Kurdish trousers, which billowed and floated atop the surface.

Javanrood was among the towns that faced severe crackdowns during the 2022 Kurdish-region protests.

More about this location

Javanrud (Persian: جوانرود)[a] is a city in the Central District of Javanrud County, Kermanshah province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.The city is 79 kilometers north of Kermanshah and is 1,300 meters above sea level.

The name of the city is derived from the Kurdish Javanrud tribe, which had formerly dominated the area, and which has now become almost fully urban.

During its early history, Javanrud was part of the loosely defined Ardalan province, the previous name of the present-day Kurdistan province. In 1909, its vali (governor) Aman-Allah Khan Ardalan (r. 1799–1825) ordered the construction of a fortress named Qal'a-ye Javanrud on a small hill near the middle of the Javanrud. In the mid-1970s, Javanrud was added to the Kermanshah province, later receiving its own sub-province in 1989.

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A Story Within

A 12- or 13-year-old boy, originally from Javanrood, was swimming with his friends in the a roadside waterhole near Ravansar. He told me he had been arrested during the 2022 protests following the death of Mahsa Amini and bore visible signs of torture. Yet, that day, he and his friends were full of joy, playing as if nothing had ever happened. He had dived into the water wearing Kurdish trousers, which billowed and floated atop the surface.

Javanrood was among the towns that faced severe crackdowns during the 2022 Kurdish-region protests.

More about this location

Javanrud (Persian: جوانرود)[a] is a city in the Central District of Javanrud County, Kermanshah province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.The city is 79 kilometers north of Kermanshah and is 1,300 meters above sea level.

The name of the city is derived from the Kurdish Javanrud tribe, which had formerly dominated the area, and which has now become almost fully urban.

During its early history, Javanrud was part of the loosely defined Ardalan province, the previous name of the present-day Kurdistan province. In 1909, its vali (governor) Aman-Allah Khan Ardalan (r. 1799–1825) ordered the construction of a fortress named Qal'a-ye Javanrud on a small hill near the middle of the Javanrud. In the mid-1970s, Javanrud was added to the Kermanshah province, later receiving its own sub-province in 1989.

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  • 12 x 18 inches – Edition of 30

  • 16 x 24 inches – Edition of 25

  • 20 x 30 inches – Edition of 20

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