{"id":578,"date":"2017-01-20T13:32:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T13:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/?p=578"},"modified":"2017-01-20T13:32:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T13:32:25","slug":"fariba-hachtroudi-creative-writing-reading-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/2017\/01\/20\/fariba-hachtroudi-creative-writing-reading-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Fariba Hachtroudi: Creative Writing Reading Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/files\/2016\/09\/Kent_Paris_School20of20Arts_294_cmyk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-494\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/files\/2016\/09\/Kent_Paris_School20of20Arts_294_cmyk-300x96.jpg\" alt=\"kent_paris_school%20of%20arts_294_cmyk\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/files\/2016\/09\/Kent_Paris_School20of20Arts_294_cmyk-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/files\/2016\/09\/Kent_Paris_School20of20Arts_294_cmyk-768x247.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/files\/2016\/09\/Kent_Paris_School20of20Arts_294_cmyk-1024x329.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/files\/2016\/09\/Kent_Paris_School20of20Arts_294_cmyk-624x201.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/files\/2016\/09\/Kent_Paris_School20of20Arts_294_cmyk.jpg 1263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Thursday 26 January 2017<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">6.30pm at Reid Hall\u00a0in the Grande Salle. All welcome.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">4 rue de Chevreuse, Montparnasse, Paris 75006 (m\u00e9tro: Vavin)<\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Fariba Hachtroudi<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/files\/2017\/01\/portrait.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-579\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/files\/2017\/01\/portrait-201x300.png\" alt=\"portrait\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fariba Hachtroudi is a French-Iranian novelist, polemicist and political campaigner. Born in 1951, Fariba is the daughter of the prominent dissident Mohsen Hachtroudi and has continued her father\u2019s struggle for freedom of expression and religious tolerance in Iran. She has written extensively on feminism and Islam, including the prize-winning Iran \u2014 Rivers of Blood. Her novels are informed by her political thought and personal experience, and explore themes of exile, torture and dissent. She will be speaking about her extraordinary life and her brilliant new novel, The Man Who Snapped His Fingers, in which the dictator of an unnamed Middle-Eastern country goes to horrifying lengths in order to control the population.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/2016\/12\/15\/spring-term-creative-reading-writing-series\/\">Click here to\u00a0read more about other speakers in our Spring &#8217;17 Creative Writing Reading Series<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 26 January 2017 6.30pm at Reid Hall\u00a0in the Grande Salle. All welcome. 4 rue de Chevreuse, Montparnasse, Paris 75006 (m\u00e9tro: Vavin) Fariba Hachtroudi Fariba Hachtroudi is a French-Iranian novelist, polemicist and political campaigner. Born in 1951, Fariba is the daughter of the prominent dissident Mohsen Hachtroudi and has continued her father\u2019s struggle for freedom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[21640,22925,339,441],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}