Lili Golestan
Lili Golestan Taghavi Shirazi (born 14 July 1944 in Tehran)[1] is an Iranian translator, and owner and artistic director of the Golestan Gallery in Tehran. She is the daughter of the filmmaker and writer Ebrahim Golestan, the sister of the late photojournalist Kaveh Golestan and the mother of filmmaker Mani Haghighi.[2] She spent a number of her formative years in Abadan, where her father worked as a filmmaker….. more
Where do our desires drive us collectively? Do they make us ego-centric human beings, or can they take us to a collective good? After millions of Iranians watched and discussed her talk, “I wanted it, I made it happen,” in TEDxTehran 2016, she now argues how Iranian young people lost their way to “want the right things.” Golestan shows how our journey toward the art of wanting can make us freer and fulfilled in her book with the same title and this talk. (This conversation, hosted by Reza Ghiabi and Niyosha Khatib, is a part of the TEDxTehranStudio series.) Lili Golestan is an Iranian translator, owner, and artistic director of the Golestan Gallery in Tehran. She is the daughter of the filmmaker and writer Ebrahim Golestan, the sister of the late photojournalist Kaveh Golestan, and filmmaker Mani Haghighi’s mother…more
Born in 1944, Lili Golestan left for Paris after her secondary school and studied dress and textile designing at the Decorative Art institute in Paris. During that period, she attended some classes of world art history and French literature at Sorbonne university, and during her stay, she also participated in pottery making classes. After four years of living and studying in Paris, she returned to Iran and took up a job as a textile designer at Moghaddam textile factory. Later, she joined Iran’s national television as a dress designer and then, she became the head of children’s TV program. She quit her job after 7 years and afterwards, published her first translation of the novel “Life, War and then nothing” by Oriana Fallaci in 1967. The book encouraged her to translate more novels. She has since published more than twenty books. Between 1981 and 1987, Lili Golestan opened a bookstore called Ketab-e-Iran….. more