Dr Parwana Fayyaz @ParwanaFayyaz

Professor of Persian Studies @UVA. JRF @Peterhouse_Cam. PhD @TrinCollCam. @Stanford. Poet and Researcher. Author of 40 Names (book). Forward Prize winner. parwanafayyaz.com Charlottesville, Virginia Joined October 2014

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Untold Narratives @WritersUntold

2 months ago

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, New Fiction by Afghan Women (@maclehosepress, 2022) has been published in South Korea by Pacho Publishing. Buy the English edition: bit.ly/4f12NUY

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Dr Parwana Fayyaz @ParwanaFayyaz

7 months ago

Today I celebrate the bravery and beautiful minds of our writers #MyDearKabul #AccelerateAction @untold_narratives @CoronetBooks

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Untold Narratives @WritersUntold

10 months ago

Parwana Fayyaz @ParwanaFayyaz, co-editor and co-translator of My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024), joined @GuiltyFeminist live podcast recording at the Amplify Human Rights Festival by @amnesty with @HuriaSamira, @DeborahFW and Susan Wokoma. Listen here: bit.ly/49u1yuA

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Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK

10 months ago

A special live podcast recording of The Guilty Feminist Podcast at #Amplify. @DeborahFW, @HuriaSamira, @ParwanaFayyaz and Susan Wokoma discuss the situation faced by women and girls in Afghanistan.

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Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK

10 months ago

Today, hundreds of people have come together at #Amplify - Amnesty’s first-ever and sold-out human rights festival. It's been a day of creativity, discussions and workshops to learn and be inspired by campaigners from across the country and around the world.

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Untold Narratives @WritersUntold

10 months ago

Parwana Fayyaz @ParwanaFayyaz, Afghan poet, scholar, author of Forty Names (@Carcanet, 2021), co-editor and co-translator of My Dear Kabul (@CoronetBooks, 2024), will be speaking at the Amplify Human Rights Festival @woolwich_works @amnesty on 7 December amnesty.org.uk/amplify-human-…

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writersmosaic @writersmosaic

11 months ago

“It is strange: we are thousands of miles apart, and I still think about what you and Madar would think.” Don't forget to delve into our latest guest edition, Portholes. This essay is called My dear father by Marie, translated by @ParwanaFayyaz bit.ly/3YsFdZc

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Sunila Galappatti @Sunilagala

12 months ago

"Your disobedient daughter" Marie writes home (to the patriarchy, she tells us). In this @WritersUntold guest edition of @writersmosaic, five contributors to #MyDearKabul meditate on their arrivals in exile. @ParwanaFayyaz and @negeen9 translate. writersmosaic.org.uk/content/my-dea…

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Eavan Casey @CaseyEavan

12 months ago

Citizen Poet- new and selected essays by Eavan Boland online @Carcanet launch. Brilliant contributions by @ParwanaFayyaz, Mary O’Malley, Colm Tóibín, Lucy Collins and John McAuliffe.

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Untold Narratives @WritersUntold

a year ago

We're delighted to collaborate with @writersmosaic to bring you this special edition. Published today, 'Portholes', edited by @Sunilagala, features journals of exile from @haidari_batool, Fakhta, Freshta, Marie and Zainab. @ParwanaFayyaz @negeen9 writersmosaic.org.uk/content/portho…

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Katharina Bielenberg @KatharinaBberg

a year ago

Glad to be joining the event for My Dear Kabul @WritersUntold - an extraordinary interwoven narrative of change and solidarity by 21 Afghan women writers @KingsLibraries #maughamlibrary - with @lynnekodonnell @Sunilagala @ParwanaFayyaz @haidari_batool

King's Libraries @KingsLibraries

a year ago

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Himal Southasian @Himalistan

a year ago

🎙️📷"The writers of 'My Dear Kabul' emphasise that the diary is not a plea to the world. These women are not writing to be saved, but to be seen and be heard." A conversation with Marie, @ParwanaFayyaz and @Sunilagala of @WritersUntold. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3NQJPw…

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Untold Narratives @WritersUntold

a year ago

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the @britishlibrary to hear the story behind My Dear Kabul (@CoronetBooks , 2024). Special thanks to @bbclysedoucet, panelists Marie, @haidari_batool, @negeen9, @ParwanaFayyaz, @Sunilagala, @LucyHannah19, Lillie Razvi Toon and @BeeRowlatt.

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Mariam Amini @aminiarchives

a year ago

My recent conversation with @ParwanaFayyaz is now live on @onlinehyphen! Connecting with other Afghans through journalism has been so rewarding. MashAllah their voices carry so much strength and wisdom. #journalism #Afghanistan #afghanstories hyphenonline.com/2024/08/30/par…

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Untold Narratives @WritersUntold

a year ago

🎉 Celebrating Women in Translation Month literary translators @ParwanaFayyaz and @negeen9 share their favourite books: Memorial by Alice Oswald & The Museum of Innocence translated by Maureen Deidre Freely 📚 #WomenInTranslationMonth #LiteraryTranslation

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Untold Narratives @WritersUntold

a year ago

One of My Dear Kabul’s literary translators @ParwanaFayyaz was on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire with @LouiseOnAir talking about her translation of My Dear Kabul (1:19:30 to listen): bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… #AfghanWomen #AfghanLiterature #LiteratureInTranslation

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British Library @britishlibrary

a year ago

Join @eventsBL plus @bbclysedoucet, @LucyHannah19, @haidari_batool, @ParwanaFayyaz, @WritersUntold, @monstroso, @MazzucatoM, @SamiraAhmedUK, @TracyBorman, @BLMedieval, @FionaRSampson, @dgjones, @julianpharrison, and @HistFestUK

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Ceri Oeppen 🧡 @Oeppen

a year ago

Look what just arrived! Personal accounts from an Afghan women writers’ WhatsApp group in the aftermath of the Taliban takeover, collated by @WritersUntold. It’s been a while since I pre-ordered a book, but I’m excited to read this and wanted to get it ASAP!

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lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet

a year ago

Congratulations on new book “My Dear #Kabul” by Afghan women writers - some of their team came in to the @BBCr4today studio - @LucyHannah19 @haidari_batool @ParwanaFayyaz @WritersUntold 📚