Chowra Makaremi is an anthropologist and tenured research fellow at the CNRS. She has worked on the government of borders in Europe and on the relationship between law and violence in democracy. For the past ten years, she explored the counter-memories of the Iranian revolution of 1979, and the genesis of the Islamic Republic, through different forms of writing (visual, literary).

Also an author and award-winning director, Chowra Makaremi published her first book, Le Cahier d'Aziz, with Gallimard in 2011. Her documentary film Hitch, an Iranian Story (Alter Ego, France, 71 min) was released in 2019.

It is through the uprisings following the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini by the Iranian police that the French public found out about Chowra Makaremi's work, with the French-speaking media calling on her to offer a fine and nuanced understanding of the situation.

With L'Agency, she is currently writing an essay on the uprisings and the freedom movement in Iran.

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