“We all get used to wearing masks in our lives, so we can blend in with the crowd.” 📚 We warmly recommend you the book “L’Epouse d’Amman”, (Arabic title : عروس عمّان, English title : The Bride of Amman), written by Jordanian author Fadi Zaghmout in 2012 and translated this year in French. 👉 Best-selling …
Un article écrit par Sarah – The Arabic Novel @thearabicnovel Nous sommes en 2016, Feurat Alani, journaliste français, est alors âgé de 36 ans. Les réseaux sociaux sont en pleine effervescence, lorsqu’à son tour, il s’empare de Twitter pour s’exprimer plus intimement sur un passé qui l’habite. Il décide d’aborder en quelques tweets une période …
The Shâhnâmeh, or « Book of Kings« , is the founding narrative of Iranian culture. This epic poem in Persian, attributed to the poet Ferdowsi, is said to have been written in the early 11th century. Both mythical and historical, the epic of the Shâhnâmeh retraces the history of Iran, from the creation of the world to …
Chicken with Plums / Poulet aux Prunes Marjane Satrapi, 2004. This graphic novel, made in 2004, narrates how Nasser Ali Khan, a famous târ player in Iran, decides to let himself die. Indeed, his târ is broken, and no other instrument sounds right anymore… Brokenhearted, the story relates the eights days during which Nasser renounces …
Un de nos livres favoris : « Désorientale » par l’auteur franco-iranienne Negar Djavadi, publié en 2016. « But the truth of memory is strange, isn’t it ? Our memories select, eliminate, exaggerate, minimize, glorify, denigrate. They create their own versions of events and serve up their own reality. Disparate, but cohesive. Imperfect yet sincere. »
