The recording of the event is now made available:
The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC and the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature. The last story-reading session of the Fall 2021 series features writer, Mahbuba Temori. The session will delve into migrant women writer’s maladies and challenges by way of talking about Temori works including two collections: “In the depth of Solitude” and “Illusory Shadows.”
Date & Time:
November 24
6:30pm – 8:30pm (PST) | 6:00am – 8:00am (Kabul Time) | 5:00am – 7:00am (Tehran Time) | 2:30am – 4:30am (CET)
Location: online via Zoom
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
Guest Speaker:
Mahbuba Temori was born in Herat, Afghanistan. She completed and received her Bachelors degree in Pedagogy from Kabul University. Upon graduation, she began work at the Afghanistan Academy of Sciences, tasked with publishing the Ariana Magazine. In 1988, like many other educated Afghans, she was forced to leave homeland due to the intensity of the civil war and eventually settled in Orange County, California. In 2012, Ms. Mahbuba Temori co-founded Jami Cultural Society, a non-profit literary organization promoting cultural tolerance and literature works of Afghanistan’s distinguished authors, poets and young writers. In 2019, she became the managing director of the literary-artistic quarterly magazine, “Shamireh”. It was during her time in diaspora that she began writing short and medium stories, which were published in Farda Magazine, a distinguished Afghan publication in Sweden, under the supervision of Dr. Akram Osman, a well-known Afghan academic, author and poet.
In 2011, she wrote and published her first novel in Farsi “In the Depth of Solitude”. It was published again in 2019. Her second work was published in 2019, called “Imaginary Shadows”, a collection of twenty-one shorty stories. She has just finished writing her recent novel, as the forces of Taliban re-entered and took over the country. She was hoping to publish her latest novel in her homeland, however, with the Taliban in control, she may not be able to do so and share her work with her countrymen and women.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.
