September 14, 2006

Too many :o)

How many Iranian women can you name whose works have been published in English since 2000?

Janet Afarey: "Foucault and the Iranian Revolution"
Mahnaz Afkhami: "Toward a Compassionate Society"
Nasrin Alavi : "We Are Iran"
Iran Davar Ardalan: "My Name Is Iran"
Gelareh Asayesh: "Saffron Sky"
Tara Bahrampour: "To See and See Again"
Laleh Bakhtiar: "Al-Ghazzali: His Psychology of the Greater Struggle"
Najmieh Batmanglij: "From Persia to Napa"
Layla S. Diba (and Maryam Ekhtiar): "Royal Persian Paintings"
Firoozeh Duma: "Funny in Farsi"
Shirin Ebadi: "Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope"
Sattareh Farman Farmaian: "Daughter of Persia"
Anahita Firouz: "In the Walled Gardens"
Soheila Ghodstinat: "A Journey to Starland"
Farideh Goldin: "Wedding Song"
Shusha Guppy: "The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood"
Simin Habibian: "One Thousand & One Persian-English Proverbs"
Roya Hakakian: "Journey from the Land of No"
Justine Harun-Mahdavi: "Not without My Husband"
Zara Houshmand: "The New Physics and Cosmology"
Persis Karim: "Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been"
Afschineh Latifi: "Even after All This Time"
Azadeh Moaveni: "Lipstick Jihad"
Farnoosh Moshiri: "The Bathhouse"
Nahid Mozaffari: "Strange Times, My Dear"
Azar Nafisi: "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
Gina Nahai: "Sunday's Silence"
Afsaneh Najmabadi: "Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards"
Ghazal Omid: "Living In Hell"
Farah Pahlavi: "An Enduring Love"
Sharnush Parsipur: "Women Without Men"
Susan Atefat Peckham: "That Kind of Sleep"
Nahid Rachlin: "Persian Girls"
Marjane Satrapi: "Persepolis"
Roxanne Varzi: "Warring Souls"
Lila Azam Zanganeh: "My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes"

And many more!

Winners: Mehran Azhar (Sad Afarin!) & Simin Habibian (Sad Afarin!)

The person who wins the most number of daily quizes in a month will be awarded a book valued at up to $50 from Mage Publishers and their name will be enshrined in the Column of Champions! Second-place winner will receive the comic book "Rostam tales from the Shahnameh", a Persian/English wall calendar from Children of Persia, or a gift certificate from eworldrecords.com.

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