Touba and the Meaning of Night

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To u b a and the Meaning of Night TOUBA030206.qxd 3/7/06 12:08 PM Page i WOMEN WRITING THE MIDDLE EAST Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq by Riverbend Children of the New World by Assia Djebar Naphtalene by Alia Mamdouh On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era Edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone Women Without Men Shahrnush Parsipur TOUBA030206.qxd 3/7/06 12:08 PM Page ii SHAHRNUSH PARSIPUR TRANSLATED FROM THE PERSIAN BY HAVVA HOUSHMAND AND KAMRAN TALATTOF AFTERWORD BY HOURA YAVARI BIOGRAPHY BY PERSIS M. KARIM THE FEMINIST PRESS AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK NEW YORK To u b a and the Meaning of Night TOUBA030206.qxd 3/7/06 12:08 PM Page iii Published in 2006 by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York The Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5406 New York, NY 10016 www.feministpress.org Copyright © 1987 by Shahrnush Parsipur Translation © 2006 by Havva Houshmand and Kamran Talattof Translating Women’s Experience © 2006 by Kamran Talattof Afterword © 2006 by Houra Yavari Biography © 2004 by Persis M. Karim All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used, stored in any information retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior written permission from the Feminist Press at the City University of New York, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. First published in original Persian as Tuba va ma’na-yi shab in 1987. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Parsipur, Shahrnush. [Tuba va ma’na-yi shab. English] Touba and the meaning of night / by Shahrnush Parsipur ; afterword by Houra Yavari ; [translation by Havva Houshmand and Kamran Talattof].-- 1st Feminist Press ed. p. cm. ISBN 1-55861-519-9 (hard cover : alk. paper) I. Houshmand, Havva. II. Talattof, Kamran. III. Title. PK6561.P247T8413 2006 891’.5533--dc22 2004014752 This publication was made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, the National Endowment for the Arts, and a grant from the Open Society Institute. Text and cover design by Lisa Force Printed on acid-free paper in Canada by Transcontinental 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 5 4 3 2 1 TOUBA030206.qxd 3/7/06 12:08 PM Page iv ...