First Female Narrator Of Shahnameh

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Most Iranians regard Ferdowsi as the greatest of their poets and for many years they have continued to read and to listen to recitations from his masterpiece known as the Epic Book of Kings (in Persian: Shahnameh), in which the Iranian national epic found its final and enduring form. To the Iranians, Shahnameh is the history of their country's glorious past, preserved for all time in sonorous and majestic verse.

Fatemeh Habibizad, the first Iranian female narrator of Shahnameh, started to narrate the epic book of Ferdowsi about six years ago. She officially narrated Shahnameh on May 15, 2005 on the occasion of Ferdowsi Day. On that occasion, she narrated the epic of Sohrab and Gordafarid at the Kerman University in Kerman, a province in the south-east of Iran.

Habibizad was born in 1977 in Ahwaz. Her nickname is Gordafarid, and she is a graduate of the Cultural Heritage University of Tehran. She currently teaches Shahnameh Narration (in Persian: Naghaali-e-Shahnameh) at the University of Fine Arts in Tehran.

Here is a link to her story and part of her Shahnameh Narration:

http://www.jadidmedia.com/images/stories/flash_multimedia/Gordtest/gordafarid_high.html

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Fatemeh "Gordafarid" Habibizad
"First female Shahnameh narrator" (naqqal)

Visit her site at www.gordafarid.net. Feature produced by Afshean Hessam.

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