"Elle joue" by Nahal Tajadod (availabe in French bookstores)

Deux femmes se parlent. Deux iraniennes. La première, née après la révolution de 1979, et qui n'a connu que le régime islamique,...

Nahal Tajadod was born in Teheran in 1960 and left Iran for France in 1977. She studied at INALCO where she obtained a doctorate in Chinese. Her thesis was on Mani, the Buddha of light and gave for the first time a translation of a Manichean text in Chinese, a real textbook written by the Manicheans themselves. She has been researching the Iranian contributions to Chinese civilisation. Buddhism, Christianism, Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism and Islam were all spread in China by Iranian missionaries.

Born into a family of Iranian erudites, Nahal Tajadod was initiated into Sufism in childhood. She has contributed to the translation of the Rûmi and has written a fictionalized biography of the great master of Sufism. She is the wife of famous screenwriter and film critic Jean Claude Carrière.