Benedicte Grima

Benedicte Grima grew up internationally. She studied four Middle Eastern languages, became proficient in Farsi and Pashto, and conducted over 20 years of fieldwork throughout Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan - some as a Fulbright scholar - as well as among refugees and exiles from there in the US as a language and culture interpreter. She has authored her research in The Performance of Emotion Among Paxtun Women (1992), and Secrets From the Field (2004). This historical and ethnographic novel is...See more

Benedicte Grima grew up internationally. She studied four Middle Eastern languages, became proficient in Farsi and Pashto, and conducted over 20 years of fieldwork throughout Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan - some as a Fulbright scholar - as well as among refugees and exiles from there in the US as a language and culture interpreter. She has authored her research in The Performance of Emotion Among Paxtun Women (1992), and Secrets From the Field (2004). This historical and ethnographic novel is created from her in-depth knowledge of and personal experience with people from Swat, Pakistan. See less