Berkeley Lecture Series Presents: Najmeh Mousavi, Writer and Translator.
“Woman’s Body behind the Veil of Tradition and Religion”
This presentation will explore the cultural, social, and religious barriers that play significant roles in shaping women’s views and reactions to their own bodies.
To elaborate and amplify this issue, Najmeh Mousavi has used a dialogue with a French woman and compared her approach to her body and its needs with the attitudes and views of three generations of Iranian women.
Najmeh Mousavi is a bilingual writer and translator currently living in Paris. She was born in Tehran, Iran. She began her study of Sociology in Shiraz University in Iran and graduated from Sorbonne.
She holds a Ph.D. in Social and Urban Development and currently works as a Senior Consultant on several EU projects in France.
She has collaborated with Persian language magazine “Arash” as an editor since 1996. She is the founder of French language magazine “Pol”.
She has written in French and Persian, and is the author and translator of the following:
In French:
— Life’s Ruptures: short stories collection, published by Armatan, Paris 2013
— Dew of Exile: poems collection, published by Armatan, Paris 2013
In Persian:
— Amnesia: short stories collection, published by “Arash” magazine, Paris 2010, reprinted 2013
— Debris of Beliefs: poems collection, published by “Arash” magazine, Paris 2009
— Nocturnal Hallucinations: poems collection, published in 2000 and second printing in 2007
Translations:
— Morvaridhaaye Pashimani — Quelques-uns des cent regrets: Philippe Claudel, published by “Negah”, Tehran 2015
— Four Short Stories: J. M. G. Le Clezio, Marc Levy, Didier van Cauwelaert, and Anna Gavalda, published by “Sherkat Ketab”, California 2007
— Instruments of Darkness: Nancy Huston, published by “Arash” magazine, Paris 2007
— A Room of One’s Own: Virginia Woolf, published by “Arash” magazine 2004
–Sacred Night: Tahar Ben Jelloun (winner of 1987 Goncourt Prize), published by “Baran”, Sweden, 1999
— Confessions of a Fallen Standard Bearer: Andrei Makine, published by “Farhang Kaavosh”, Tehran 1999
— Sand and Foam: poems collection by Gibran Khalil Gibran, 1997
— The Straw Child: Tahar Ben Jelloun , published by “Baran”, Sweden, 1996
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Lecture in Persian