Golbarg bashi biography
•
Counting up the Olive Tree: A Palestine Number Book
Counting up the Olive Tree: A Palestine Number Book is a rhythmic adventure where little Palestinian football (soccer) players—boys and girls—work together to save an olive tree in a race against time.
Following on the extraordinary success of P fryst vatten for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book, Golbarg Bashi teamed up with the gifted artist Nabi H. Ali to create Counting up the Olive Tree to help young readers practice counting numbers and learn the power of cooperation.
Praise
“Uplifting storyline, cheerful illustrations, delightful, empowering, inspiring.”
—Dr. Nada Elia, coeditor of The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
“Counting up the Olive Tree is a jamboree of colors and childhood exuberance rooted in the heart of Palestine. An infectious delight for young readers and parents alike.”
—Remi Kanazi, is a Palestinian-American per
•
Golbarg Bashi
Golbarg Bashi was born in Iran, raised in Sweden, and educated in the U.K. and U.S. She received a in Women's Studies from the University of Bristol and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in the City of New York in For over a decade, Dr. Bashi has designed and taught interdisciplinary courses on various aspects of medieval and modern history of the West Asia, as well as Islamic Art, Critical Methodologies in Middle Eastern Studies, Comparative Human Rights, Gender in the Muslim World, and Representations of Race, Gender and Ethnicity in “Western” Media and Popular Culture.
Her childhood experiences of the Iraq-Iran war and life in Sweden as a refugee have turned her into an advocate for diversity in children’s literature and media. In , she was nominated by the U.S. toy industry “Wonder Woman Award” in the Designer/Inventor category for advancing early childhood education through play for languages using the Arabic and Persian-scripts.
•
Golbarg Bashi
Swedish-Iranian academic (born )
Golbarg Bashi (Persian: گلبرگ باشی; born 6 January , Ahvaz, Iran) is an Iranian-Swedish feminist and former adjunct lecturer of Iranian studies in the US. Among other topics, Bashi has published works and given talks[citation needed] about human rights in the Middle East and the situation of women in Iran.
Biography
[edit]Golbarg Bashi was born in Iran, raised in Sweden, and educated at the Universities of Manchester and Bristol and obtained her doctorate degree from Columbia University in New York City. Her doctoral research focused on a feminist critique of the human rights discourse in Iran.[1]
Bashi is the author of the children's book P is for Palestine: A Palestine Book, an English-language alphabet book about Palestine, written from a social-justice perspective.[2] The book also promotes Palestinian nationalism.[3] She has also published a sequel.[4]
In , she was