Shahrnush Parsipur
شهرنوش پارسی پور 
Shahrnush Parsipur is an Iranian novelist who was born and raised in Tehran. Some of her works include Women without Men (زنان بدون مردان), Blue Reason (عقل آبی), and On the wings of Wind (بر بال باد نشستن). She was the recipient of the first International Writers Project Fellowship from the Program in Creative Writing and the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Ms Parsipur currently resides in California. http://www.shahrnushparsipur.com/
Book reading and Q&A with Shahrnush Parsipur
گفتگو با شهرنوش پارسی پور
Ms Parsipur will be reading and discussing passages from her book Touba and the Meaning of Night. Copies of her books will be available to buy from Word Power.
Dates & times: Monday 2nd February 2009, 7pm to 8pm
Venue: Word Power bookshop, 43 - 45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DB
Entry: FREE
Academic Discussion with Shahrnush Parsipur
بحث و گفتگو با شهرنوش پارسی پور
The panel will be chaired by Dr Kamran Rastegar of Edinburgh University’s Departmet of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES). They will discuss Ms Parsipur’s work and post-revolutionary literature in Iran. The discussion will be followed by a drinks reception, courtesy of IMES.
Dates & times: Tuesday 3rd February, 6pm to 7pm
Venue: Room G2, 19 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD
Entry: FREE
Storytelling from Shahnameh
شاهنامه خوانی
Shahnameh (or The Book of Kings) is an enormous poetic opus written by the Iranian poet Ferdowsi around 1000 AD and is a national epic of the Persian-speaking world. It tells the mythical and historical past of Greater Iran from the creation of the world up until the Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century. We will be telling some of the stories contained within this masterpiece in English. Children and adults are both welcome.
http://www.shahnameh.com/
Date/time: Sunday 1st February, 3pm to 5pm
Venue: Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Entry: FREE
For more information/advice, please e-mail: books@ediranfest.co.uk