Sheema Kalbasi

Sheema Kalbasi

Sheema Kalbasi (PerB| شیما کلباسی , born November 1972 in Tehran, Iran) is a human right advocate, an award winning poet, and literary translator.

Biography

Kalbasi is director of Dialogue of Nations through Poetry in Translation, director of Poetry of Iranian Women Project, poetry editor of Muse Apprentice Guild and co-director of the [http://www.othervoicespoetry.org/toc.html Other Voices International project] . She has authored two collections of poems, [http://www.echoesinexile.com/ Echoes in Exile] in English, and "Sangsar (stoning)" in Persian. Kalbasi's work has appeared in numerous magazines, literary reviews, anthologies, and has been translated into eighteen languages to date. Her work is distinguished by her passionate defense of the ethnic and religious minorities' rights.

She has worked for the United Nations and the Center for non Afghan Refugees in Pakistan, and in Denmark. Today she lives with her husband and children in the United States.

Books

* [http://www.atlasbooks.com/marktplc/02310.htm"Seven Valleys of Love] , a bilingual anthology of women poets from Middle Ages Persia to present day Iran" (Phoenix Rising Arts Publishing, 2008)
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0972770372 "Echoes in Exile"] (Phoenix Rising Arts Publishing, 2006)
* "Sangsar (stoning)" (Sinbad Publishing, 2005)

ee also

*List of famous Iranian women

External links

* [http://www.othervoicespoetry.org/vol3/kalbasi/index.html The Other Voices International Project]
* [http://www.howitgoesnaked.blogspot.com Her Literary Blog]
* [http://www.iranian.com/kalbasi.html Her articles on Iranian.com]
* [http://www.tehelka.com/story_main36.asp?filename=Ws011207Sheema.asp Tehelka Interview]
* [http://www.icorn.org/articles.php?var=87 Sheema Kalbasi at ICORN]


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