Elham Malekpoor Arashlu
{{short description|Iranian poet, writer and journalist (born 1983)}}
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| birth_place = Iran
| occupation = Human rights activist, journalist and poet
| nationality = Iranian
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Elham Malekpoor Arashlu ({{langx|fa|الهام ملک‌پور ارشلو}}) or Elham Malepoor is an Iranian poet, writer and journalist.{{cite web|title=Elham Malekpoor Arashlu|url=https://rfgmagazine.nl/author/elham-malekpoor-arashlu/|website=RFG Magazine|date=11 April 2018 |language=Dutch}} She was born in Iran and she is semi-blind.{{cite news |last1=سمرقندی |first1=شهزاده |title=وقتی شاعر سکوتش را می‌شکند |url=https://www.radiozamaneh.com/373925 |publisher=رادیو زمانه |date=15 January 2018 |language=Persian |quote=الهام ملک‌پور را ایرانیان مقیم اروپا به عنوان جوانی با توانایی محدود بینایی و مدافع پرکار حقوق کودک و اقلیت‌های جنسی می‌شناسند.}}
Biography
Elham was born in July 1983 in Iran. She graduated from Kerman University in Persian literature. She lives in the Netherlands and works as an LGBT rights activist, writer, and poet.
Elham left Iran in September 2012 due to threats against her.{{cite web |title=Poems in Exile: Elham Malekpoor |url=http://www.sampsoniaway.org/literary-voices/2015/02/03/poems-in-exile-elham-malekpoor/ |website=Sampsonia Way |date=3 February 2015}} She has been a member of PEN International in the Netherlands since 2016.{{cite web |title=Conceptnotulen ALV 2016 |url=https://pennederland.nl/conceptnotulen-alv-2016 |website=PEN Nederland |language=Dutch}} Elham worked in JoopeA Foundation as a member of management team from 2015 to 2018.{{cite web |title=Elham Malekpoor Introduction |url=https://joopea.info/?p=38 |website=JoopeA |date = 15 December 2015|accessdate=28 August 2018}}
Books
Elham published her first book of poems Jamaica is a country too... ({{langx|fa|که جامائیکا هم کشوری‌ست...}}) in 2006 in Iran.{{cite web |author1=ماهی |title=نگره و نقدی بر ادبیات دگرباش |url=http://www.iran-chabar.de/article.jsp?essayId=40740 |website=Akhbare-rooz |language=Persian |date=27 September 2011 |quote=الهام ملک‌پور در سال 1385 مجموعه شعری با نام «که جامائیکا هم کشوری‌ست...» را توسط نشر «مهرراوش» در ایران منتشر کرده است.}}
Malekpoor is also the author of the books A chair to sit ({{langx|fa|صندلی برای نشستن}}),{{cite web|author1=Elham Malekpoor Arashlu|title=صندلی برای نشستن|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi4Oiglh9Kc/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/Bi4Oiglh9Kc |archive-date=2021-12-26 |url-access=registration|website=Roonak Publication on Instagram|publisher=Roonak Publication|language=Persian}}{{cbignore}} Historiography of Homan ({{langx|fa|تاریخ‌نگاری هومان}}){{cite web|title=انتشار کتاب تاریخ‌نگاری هومان|url=https://joopea.news/2018/03/homan-history-book-norouz-gift-of-joopea/|website=JNews|publisher=کارگاه خبر ژوپی‌آ|language=Persian|access-date=2018-08-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816195952/https://joopea.news/2018/03/homan-history-book-norouz-gift-of-joopea/|archive-date=2018-08-16|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=تاریخ‌نگاری گروه هومان|url=https://literatuurplein.nl/detail/boek/-/1479223|website=Het Literatuurplein|language=Dutch|access-date=2018-08-16|archive-date=2018-08-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816194540/https://literatuurplein.nl/detail/boek/-/1479223|url-status=dead}} and Breaking the invertebrate flesh ({{langx|fa|منقار در گوشت بی‌مهره}}).{{cite web|title=منقار در گوشت بی‌مهره|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BihcDQLh7ke/|website=Roonak Publication on Instagram|publisher=Roonak Publication|language=Persian}}
References
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External links
- [http://elhammalekpoor.com Personal website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123024852/https://elhammalekpoor.com/ |date=2019-01-23 }}
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Category:21st-century Iranian journalists
Category:Iranian human rights activists
Category:Iranian women's rights activists
Category:Iranian LGBTQ rights activists
Category:Iranian LGBTQ journalists
Category:Women civil rights activists
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