Meet two writers who have arrived at the personal essay form via different avenues. Sara Mokhavat, an actress and filmmaker has written about how it is to be a working woman - particularly in the arts - in Iran. Vali Khalili, a once traditional journalist who, because of the vagaries of living in an authoritarian state has turned more to the craft of essay writing in order to understand the lives of youth and women in his country - but even more importantly, in order to convey what it means to be a man in Iran after the Woman Life Freedom movement.