Meet the Author of The Woman Who Read Too Much: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

When: Thursday, April 2, 7:00-9:00pm
Where: Bioscience Research Building, Room 1101
RSVP: http://www.bahaichair.umd.edu/events/nakhjavani
Link: http://www.freestuff.umd.edu/events.cfm?mode=detail&eventID=33709
Description: Plots. Political intrigue. Treachery. The high-handed actions of omnipotent rulers. Death by decree. That’s the world that Bahiyyih Nakhjavani plunges readers into with The Woman Who Read Too Much: Persia in the mid-nineteenth century, a society that clings to the old ways even as the world around it is rapidly transforming. When a female poet, a historical figure who was also a theologian and revolutionary, dares to reject the veil and begin agitating for female literacy, her campaign shakes the very foundations of Persian society.