French Author Publishes So, Where Is Morteza
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’.