Book Launch: Sorour Kasmai & Mohsen Namjoo at SOAS
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SOAS Iranian Society
Nov 27, 2016, 2:20:00 PM11/27/16
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Dear all,
A long one this week (isnt always?).
So on a quick note, if, like me, you like sake, then here's one at Asia House this week for you: http://asiahouse.org/events/celebrate-festive-season-sake-asia-house/
Date: Saturday, 03 December
Time: 18:30 - 20:30
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1266726076728006/
**Please note that seating is on a first-come first-serve basis (around 130 seats). Guests will have to sign themselves in at the SOAS reception desk**
Book Launch event for Sorour Kasmai & Mohsen Namjoo. (Flyer attached)
The presentations and discussion for this event will be in Persian.
For further information email: mehripub...@gmail.com or in...@naakojaa.com
Organised by: Mehri Publication, Pars Association, Nakojaa, Baran, and SOAS Iranian Society
Shadows in the Garden: Women Agents Underground and Communist Activism in Mid-20th Century Iran
Date: Monday, 28 November
Time: 17:15 - 19:15
Room: B140 (Brunei Gallery)
Speaker: Dr Lana Ravandi-Fadai (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Lana Ravandi-Fadai is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include the modern political history of Iran; Iranian political parties; Russo-Iranian relations; Ethnic and Religion Minorities and Persian literature and language.
Organised by: Department of History, SOAS
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War
Date: Wednesday, 30 November
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Room: T102, SOAS Language Centre, 22 Russell Square
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/840206309455450/
Speaker: Roham Alvandi
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, is often remembered as a pliant instrument of American power during the Cold War. Roham Alvandi offers a revisionist account of the Shah's relationship with the United States by examining the partnership he forged with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1970s. Based on extensive research in the British and US archives, as well as a wealth of Persian-language diaries, memoirs and oral histories, Alvandi’s work restores agency to the Shah as an autonomous international actor and suggests that Iran evolved from a client to a partner of the United States under the Nixon Doctrine.
For further information please contact Nima Mina at: nm...@soas.ac.uk
Organised by: Department of Near and Middle East Studies and the Department of Politics and International Studies in collaboration with the Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS
Yalda Evening: Musical performance by Vida Edalat and reception
Date: Wednesday, 14 December
Time: 18:30 - 21:00
Venue: Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP
Join the Iran Heritage Foundation for the final event of the year in anticipation of Shab-e Yalda, when the days once again start to get longer after the winter solstice. This will be a social evening, with a musical performance by Vida Edalat, accompanied by the Saba Ensemble, followed by a reception with drinks and Persian nibbles.
Tickets: http://www.iranheritage.org/Yalda2016/default.htm
Organised by: Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF)
Concert: Googoosh
Date: Thursday, 22 December
Time: 18:30
Venue: The SSE Arena, Wembley, Arena Square Engineers Way, London HA9 0AA
Faegheh Atashin (born May 5, 1950 in Tehran, Iran), also known by her stage name Googoosh is an Iranian singer and actress of Azeri origin. She is known for her contributions to Persian pop music, but also starred in a variety of movies from the 1950s to the 1970s. She achieved the pinnacle of her fame and success towards the end of the 1970s. Her overall impact and contributions to Persian pop earned her the title of the most iconic female pop-singer from Iran.
Further info & Tickets: http://www.ssearena.co.uk/events/detail/googoosh-1
LSE Middle East Centre paper series: Iran's eleventh presidential election revisited: the politics of managing change - Ali Ansari (2016)
The election of Hassan Rouhani to the Presidency of the Islamic Republic in 2013 signalled for many a popular rejection of the politics of confrontation endorsed by his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and support for greater liberalism at home and internationalism abroad. With his first term coming to an end and an agreement reached on Iran’s nuclear programme, this paper revisits the 2013 presidential election campaign and argues that the process retained much of the intricate management of previous elections.
Professor Ali Ansari joined the LSE Middle East Centre as Visiting Professor. He is Professor of Iranian History & Founding Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is also Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and President of the The British Institute of Persian Studies.
Download the paper here: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/68306/
New title from I.B.Tauris: Sa'di in Love - The Lyrical Verses of Persia's Master Poet
With poetry which speaks across the ages, Sa’di (1210–81) is a vital classical poet and a towering figure of the medieval Persian canon. Comparable in skill and stature to other Persian poets such as Ferdowsi, Hafez, Rumi and Omar Khayyam, Sa’di’s verses – best known through his ‘Bustan’ and ‘Golestan’ – address universal themes of passion, love and the human condition in works which are both psychologically perceptive and beautifully crafted. His mystical writings, contemporaneous with Rumi, reveal a degree of depth, wisdom and insight which have placed Sa’di in the pantheon of world literature. In this essential new translation of Sa’di’s work, leading expert on Iranian studies Homa Katouzian seeks to bring the poet’s lyrics to a new readership. The book provides the Persian text and Katouzian’s English translation side-by-side, creating an indispensible tool for students and enthusiasts of Iranian history, literature and culture.
Homa Katouzian is a historian and literary critic, with a special interest in Iranian studies. He is the Iran Heritage Research Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He is the editor of Iranian Studies, the bimonthly Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies.
Migrant and Refugee Welcome Tours
We are a grassroots initiative aiming to reduce the social isolation of refugees, asylum seekers, and people with precarious and/or temporary migration status through running regular tours of the London area.
Half of our tours will be in Persian, so we ask you to spread the word and let anyone know who could be interested either in participating or in giving a tour. Please email us at Refuge...@gmail.com!
For more information about the project we refer you to the description in our crowdfunder (to which you may obviously also donate): http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/welcome-tours-for-migrants-and-refugees
Thank you!
Jasmin Beck
Have a good week all.
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