TEHRAN -- A book by Claire Jobert, a French Muslim author and illustrator of books for ‎children and young ‎adults who lives in Iran titled So, Where Is Morteza on Ayatollah ‎Morteza Motahhari has been published. ‎
The children’s book is based on a memory from the childhood of Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari, a Shia scholar and lecturer who was a close student and ally of the founder of the ‎Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini.
Motahhari was a key theorist of ‎the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979 and an influential figure who developed the ‎ideology of the Islamic Republic. ‎ ‎
Written in a simple language, So, Where Is Morteza has been published by the Center of the Islamic Revolution’s Documents.
Jobert was born in Paris in May 1961. She was raised in a Christian family. Her father ‎was an artist and her mother a medical doctor. She converted to Islam at the age of ‎nineteen and immigrated to Iran in 1983 when she married her Iranian husband. Jobert ‎has a bachelor’s degree in educational sciences and an MA in children’s literature
With a cursory look at her works, one can easily perceive her preoccupation with issues ‎such as faith and religion, identity, children’s relations with their surroundings, etc. ‎Most of this writer’s works are for primary-age children.‎
Claire Jobert is also interested in doing research on children’s literature and philosophy for ‎children. She writes both in Persian and French and has published some French books in ‎Lebanon and France, but her preference is to write in Persian.‎
Among her works are Thanks Heavens, ‘The Most Trusted Friend’, ‘If I Were You’, ‘The ‎Cat of Our Alley’, ‘God’s Cookies’, ‘Goodbye, Old Raccoon’ and ‘Mumushi Stories Series’.‎