Fereshteh Kowssar

Fereshteh Kowssar, an author and educator, taught Persian at Yale University before her retirement. She studied at the School of Literature and Human Sciences of Tehran University, studying with professors such as Dr. Gholam Hossein Sadighi, Dr. ABBAS Zaryab-Khoi, DR. Yahya Mahdavi and Dr. Alimorad Davoudi. She has published four books both in the US and Iran, one of which, Bidad e Sokoot (Outrage of Silence), received the Isfahan Literary Award in 2005.

Fereshteh Kowssar, an author and educator, taught Persian at Yale University before her retirement. She studied at the School of Literature and Human Sciences of Tehran University, studying with professors such as Dr. Gholam Hossein Sadighi, Dr. ABBAS Zaryab-Khoi, DR. Yahya Mahdavi and Dr. Alimorad Davoudi. She has published four books both in the US and Iran, one of which, Bidad e Sokoot (Outrage of Silence), received the Isfahan Literary Award in 2005. See less