Mina Khazeni

Mina Khazeni Oskouei is a poet, writer, and cultural activist. Her work focuses on women’s lives under censorship, the politics of gender, and the subtle ways resistance manifests in daily life. From 2017 to 2025, she directed Sayeha (www.sayeha.org), a platform she founded to support emerging poets and writers silenced in Iran. In 2024, she moved to France with a Talent Passport following an invitation from ACCR. Since then, she has participated in several residencies and continued writing on exile, migration, women’s experiences, and the fragile hope of freedom.

 

During this residency, her project centers on the story of a woman who escapes a totalitarian regime and confronts exile, loss, and the tension between fear and freedom. Through a nonlinear narrative focused on her inner world, it explores migration, survivor’s guilt, and the female experience. Drawing on personal experience, she aims to complete the first draft and bridge individual memory with collective history.