Elham Yaghoubian is a writer, translator, political and human rights activist. first novel, Daryāye Khamūsh (“Silent Darya”), at the age of sixteen, and is recognized as the first Iranian Jewish woman novelist in Iran. She received her Bachelor degree in Foreign Language Translation from Tehran Azad University in 1994 and published her second book, Tondbāde Sarnevesht (“Storm of Destiny”), in 1996, after which it was republished four times. She was later approached by an Iranian producer who wished to adapt her novel into a screenplay, but after the government censored her books without permission, she decided to decline this request.