Chowra Makaremi

Chowra Makaremi is an anthropologist and tenured research scholar at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. Her research focuses on security, migration control, the anthropology of law and the state, and postrevolutionary violence in Iran.

Aziz’s notebook: transmitting the memory of violence

A granddaughter discovers her grandfather's notebook years after the political massacres that stole her mother and aunt. Beginning as a testimony of loss, it becomes an obsession to leave a trace against silence and denial. From States of Impunity.

By Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet and Chowra Makaremi

/ 26 May 2015

States of impunity

openSecurity's new series explores how the violence of state crimes endures. How and when does the fight against impunity open up an arena for action and change?

By Shilpa Jindia, Pardis Shafafi and Chowra Makaremi

/ 29 Apr 2015