She teaches citizenship classes at various branches of the Brooklyn Public Library. Born in Iran and raised in New York City, she has worked for The Daily Beast, The New York Times, Al-Monitor, Columbia Global Reports, and Devex, among others. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Disoriental written by Negar Djavadi which was published in August 25, 2016. Roja Heydarpour was a Muslim Communities Fellow of Open City. Brief Summary of Book: Disoriental by Negar Djavadi.

She is a screenwriter and lives in Paris.

She arrived in France at the age of eleven, having crossed the mountains of Kurdistan on horseback with her mother and sister. Négar Djavadi was born in Iran in 1969 to a family of intellectuals opposed to the regimes both of the Shah, then of Khomeini. DISORIENTAL by Ngar Djavadi translated by Tina Kover RELEASE DATE: ApFrench-Iranian screenwriter Djavadi blends the fates of individuals and families with the history of modern Iran in this award-winning debut novel about exile, integration, and the human cost of political opposition. The narrator, a storyteller extraordinaire, a Scheherazade of our time, and above all a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own “disorientalization”–– forms the heart of this bestselling and beloved novel. You have to separate, detach, disassociate. Because to really integrate into a culture, I can tell you that you have to disintegrate first, at least partially, from your own. In an article in the Augissue of Publishers Weekly, Louisa Ermelino said of DISORIENTAL: Djavadi captures the culture of Iran, her tone clever and amusing and uncritical. Disoriental is a mix between Oriental and Disoriented (of feeling lost, uprooted) and together, they evoke the separation with one’s culture to fit it into a new one.

In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. Disoriental is Négar Djavadi’s debut and was selected by Lire magazine as the Best Debut Novel of 2016. Join Négar Djavadi and AAWW Open City Fellow Roja Heydarpour as they discuss Djavadi’s debut novel, Disoriental, which won several prestigious literary awards in France, on the occasion of its publication in the US with Europa Editions.

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