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 third workshop features Iranian anthropologist, Shahram Khosravi. In the journey into the life and experience of migrants, the session initiates a conversation between Shahram Khosravi, PhD and the writer Alie Ataee about her latest monograph “Kūr Sorkhī”.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.
The recording of the event is now made available:
Date & Time:
October 30
1:00pm – 3:00pm (PDT) | 12:30am – 2:30am (Kabul Time) | 11:30pm – 1:30am (Tehran Time)
Location: online via Zoom
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
Guest Speaker:
Being referred to as the writer of the borders and one of the most influential contemporary women writes, Aliyeh Ataee is an Afghan-Iranian novelist and screenwriter. She was born in 1981 in the border region of Iran and Afghanistan. She has a Master’s degree in theater from Tehran University. All of Ataee’s works come with a theme of immigration and wars in the Middle East, looking at war from a woman’s perspective and its particular consequences on harming women.
In 2010, Aliyeh Ataee won an award for The Best Screenplay in the Moon Festival. She received the Mehregan Adab award (one of the most prestigious and noble private literature awards in Iran) for her novel Kafourpoosh in 2015. The novel also won the Distinguished Novel of the Year award in the VAV Literature Awards. She is also a two-time winner of the Tehran City Award with more than two thousand competitors. Both wins for novels about immigrants. Galileo is a novel of hers which has won awards in Iran and has been published in the Words Without Borders journal in the United States. Alcove is another novel by Aliyeh which has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review. It is a story about two women in the terrorist attack on a subway station in Tehran, where one of their husbands becomes suspicious about them. Aliyeh’s Night of the Wolf (original title: Nuit De Loup) has been published by the Parisian publication Edition Le Supirail as a story in a book titled Sous le ciel de Kaboul.
Discussant:
Shahram Khosravi is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. His research interests include anthropology of Iran, forced displacement, border studies, and time. Khosravi is the author of several books such as : Young and Defiant in Tehran (2008); The Illegal Traveler: an auto-ethnography of borders, (2010); Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran, (2017); After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives, Palgrave (2017, edited volume) and Waiting. A project in Conversation (2021, edited volume). He has been an active writer in the international press. He is a co-founder of Critical Border Studies, a network for scholars, artists and activists to interact.
