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Potry/Bibliotherapy conferecne and Rumi’s Guest House  https://somayehmckian.com/1st-european-biblio-poetry-therapy-conference-2024-2/ On the 4th and 5th of October 2024, I was at the  first European conference of poetry/bibliotherapy in Budapest, I had a presentation and I enjoyed the whole conference, with beautiful ideas and creative people. I presented autoethnography and creative writing parts from my thesis, and also narrative inquiry […]

On women international day, what have women achieved and what awaits them? Iraqi palm trees explore… Full article  https://iraqpalm.com/ar/n20684

Unknown future:  Darkness exists, and you are also    In my second novel ‘Panj Shab’ there is a sentence:                                                              “ I am afraid of myself more than others’’.                           In every challenge we have in our life stories, there is fear of the unknown and unpredictable things that are happening or will happen, we

A postcolonial/decolonial approach to “Wandering Island” Novel by Simin Dāneshvar  Full article Introduction Writing as a process of thinking cannot be outside of the power system. The disciplines of postcolonial studies have contributed in important ways to rethink how we understand the notion of literature today. A literary text is valuable not only for the

Normativity on the throne  Full article  In this short essay, I had a look at five concepts that are some aspects of the politics of sexuality, and I tried to incorporate them together in a short argumentative and critical text. From my point of view, all these five terminologies: Invention of Heterosexuality, Politics of Sexual

Review of a novella:  “Women without Men” written by Shahrnush Parsipur Abstract The article discusses A novella:  Women without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur, an Iranian woman writer (originally published in Persian in 1989) based on the gender-sensitive approach. The novella (56 pages in Farsi) is structured around the motif of the journey. The five female protagonists we

The first 33 minutes literary event, Prague,2024 In June 2024, I lectured about the meaning of silence in my novels, it was the first literary event that focused on the specific theme in poetry and literature, two other lecturer were poets from Czech and Iceland. Here is the text of my lecture.   Review of