Khurshid Khanum, Rise and Shine | Batool Heydari

“Khurshid Khanum, Rise and Shine“, is short story by Batool Heydari in Dari language, Translated by Parwana Fayyaz to English. Batool Heydari teaches psychology at Kabul University. Some of her stories have been published in local newspapers, and one has been translated into French for an anthology by Khojaste Ebrahimi. She lives in Kabul with her three children and husband.

Parwana Fayyaz , Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1990. She was raised in Quetta, Pakistan. She then moved to Cambridge University to pursue a PhD in Persian Studies at Trinity College and completed her thesis in 2020. She currently holds a junior research fellowship as the Carmen Blacker Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge University.

Dari, is the political term used for the dialect of Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Persian’s in Afghanistan who refer to their language simply as Farsi.

The link to read the short story: “Khurshid Khanum, Rise and Shine” : https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/december-2020-afghan-women-writers-khurshid-khanum-rise-and-shine-batool-he