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Saira Shah: The Storyteller's Daughter
Sep. 25th, 2003 11:13 amLast night I went to a reading sponsored by the Center for New Words (which is a newer incarnation of the New Words Bookstore that used to be in Inman Sq.). Saira Shah read from her new book The Storyteller's Daughter, after clips from her documentary, Under the Veil, were shown. The film is about women's life under the Taliban in Afghanistan, and even the short pieces were scary.
She is an interesting person, a Briton whose father is an Afghan storyteller, and she has not only a lovely accent, but the gift of reading well, of telling stories, herself. She'd grown up hearing stories of Afghanistan, and wanted to find the country of those stories, so traveled there. The book is about her trips to Afghanistan, both with the mujahadeen and during the time of the Taliban. Fascinating stuff.
I picked up a schedule of upcoming events this fall, and there are some that are of interest to me. This Wednesday Molly Ivins is speaking on her book bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, and there are 10-minute play slams as well.
( the food part of the evening )
a half-goat person writing ironic works: satyric satirist
She is an interesting person, a Briton whose father is an Afghan storyteller, and she has not only a lovely accent, but the gift of reading well, of telling stories, herself. She'd grown up hearing stories of Afghanistan, and wanted to find the country of those stories, so traveled there. The book is about her trips to Afghanistan, both with the mujahadeen and during the time of the Taliban. Fascinating stuff.
I picked up a schedule of upcoming events this fall, and there are some that are of interest to me. This Wednesday Molly Ivins is speaking on her book bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, and there are 10-minute play slams as well.
( the food part of the evening )
a half-goat person writing ironic works: satyric satirist