More than twenty years ago, at the beginning of the reform era, many Iranian researchers and professors who had left Iran during the country’s 1979 revolution traveled back to Iran due to the relative political and social security at that time. Among these, the presence of female professors in American universities was remarkable. In the first years, most of them visited women’s circles in every trip, and in later years, they visited the office of women’s organizations, and some of them still travel to Iran for the purpose of conducting their research and using resources available in the National Library and the Parliament, and the University of Tehran . They are trying to compile valuable research about Iranian women’s history. Afsaneh Najmabadi, a professor at Harvard University in the field of women’s studies, gender and history (especially historical studies in the 19th century in Iran) is one of these individuals, and is the author of the book “The Story of the Qochan Girls”. This book tells the story of the sale of Quchani girls to the Turkmen and Armenians of Ashgabat in Khorasan, as well as the capture of Bashinlu women during the Turkmen attack on Bojnord in 1323 AH (1905). The Story of the Qochan Girls entered the Seddigeh Dolatabadi library with the first donation package of “Nasher Roshangaran”. The title of the book, the design of the cover, the name of Afsana Najmabadi and the name of Roshangaran Publishing House drew the attention of every visitor to this collection of women. Two or three years ago, when I heard the complaint of Shahla Lahiji, director of Roshangaran Publishing House, about the lack of academic interest in this book, I wanted to tell her in a way that instead, all the visitors to the small library of Sediqeh Daulatabadi eagerly requested it.
