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SOAS Iranian Society
Nov 13, 2016, 3:48:37 PM11/13/16
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Dear all,
Every year BIMA (along with other organisations) collaborates with Rustam School to organise mentoring events for children hoping to go to university. Our aim is to promote other subjects and also show them the path to university.
This year the event is being held at SOAS on Saturday 21st of January 2017
In order to have a successful event we need speakers to guide students about the application process, personal statements etc.
We are still short of a few speakers both (undergraduate and postgraduate) for the following subjects:
Journalism - Banking/Finance - Management - Art - Architecture - Teaching - Media/Film - Marketing -Sports
If you are interested or know anyone that would be of help then please leave a message. Ideally postgraduates should be recently graduated as children generally find it easier to build a rapport with those closer to their age.
We would really appreciate your help but this is for the children not for us!!
Email: in...@bima-uk.com
Web: http://www.bima-uk.com/
Job Vacancy: Persian Linguist
Appen is looking for a Linguist native speaker of Persian, with native speaker knowledge of the standard and Tehrani dialects.
The main duties include checking phonemic pronunciations of Persian words, doing small amounts of translation, checking some linguistic materials, and providing relevant linguistic expertise.
Further info: https://talent-appen.icims.com/jobs/1018/farsi-linguist/job
Moon gazers, there is some hype building out there for tomorrow's 'Super Moon' - they say the Moon hasnt been this close to the Earth in almost 70 years, and wont be again for a couple of decades. And then, of course, there is the British weather forecast to throw a wrench down - clouds.. all day and night. I know what you're thinking... '..SOAS!'. ;}
On a different note, it has come to our attention that some students have been approached at SOAS by an outside group regarding an upcoming demonstration. Activism and awareness on human rights issues is legit and should be encouraged. However, there are many front groups in the Iranian diaspora, and so i feel that i should warn students here not to involve themselves with unverifiable activist groups taking on issues to do with Iran so as not to risk being taken advantage of or end up on somebody else's watch list. Unless you can be sure that you are dealing with trusted, credible and verifiable charities or human rights organisations, i do not recommend giving money, aid or other help to groups that you do not actually know or who's background cannot be vouched for.
Film Screening: A Separation
Date: Thursday, 17 November
Time: 19:15 - 21:00
Room: Room B102, 1st Floor, Brunei Gallery
*Tea and nabat will be available from 7pm.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Onuy5USTc
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/328288767547499/
Language: Persian (English subtitles)
Run Time: 117 mins (approx)
Synopsis: Set in contemporary Iran, A SEPARATION is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents' home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader.
When Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father in his wife's absence, he hopes that his life will return to a normal state. However, when he discovers that the new maid has been lying to him, he realizes that there is more on the line than just his marriage.
Organised by: SOAS Iranian Society
Middle Eastern Foodscapes: Iran and the Post-Ottoman World
Date: Wednesday, 16 November
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Room: Room FG01, Faber Building
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1786216788292801/
Speaker: Sami Zubaida
What is Iranian or Turkish, Arab or Armenian cuisines? These are labels which acquire importance on the global stage, with the modern acceleration of interest in food, becoming a spectacle and a recreation, with wide cultural and commercial consequences. The presentation will follow histories, geographies and vocabularies of food in the regions of Anatolia, Iran and the Arab Levant, to show that food cultures and innovations owe much to geography and communication, less to ethnicity and nationality.
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
iBRIDGES Meeting in London in support of iBRIDGE BARCELONA
Date: Thursday, 17 November
Time: 18:30 - 21:00
iBRIDGES is an initiative set up by the Iranian diaspora to provide an open, inclusive and collaborative initiative which aims to empower a worldwide high-tech entrepreneurial community, focused on those of Iranian descent.
iBRIDGES’s mission is to create a community of high-tech entrepreneurs of Iranian descent, energized to exchange knowledge, best practices, and innovative thinking and accelerate growth of an “innovation economies” worldwide.
Who Should Attend?
Any individual, business or public organisation who is interested in dealing in a personal or professional capacity with Iran.
Registration & Further info: https://www.binabusiness.events/ibridges
Exhibition as Editing Exercise, MOP CAP 2015 Winner
Exhibition Open: 10 - 17 November
Location: Sophia Contemporary Gallery, 11 Grosvenor Street, London W1K 4QB
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/238359069900683/
Tehran is a city both forged and forgotten by modernity. The ever-present hum of traffic, the continuous movement of people, the breathing of heavy, combusted air. Not only the mobile vehicles, but solidified infrastructures, pavements, highway exits, footbridges and construction sites – as well as the human adaptations and appropriations of space around them – seem to find varied, intermixed, negotiated ways of co-existence. In the mixture, the Chaloos Road, an engineering triumph, a motorway carved through the mountains escaping out of Tehran to the Caspian Sea, turns into an umbilical extension of urban life. Extracted from the earth itself, bitumen is rolled everywhere as the surface for modernity, offered as crude cure for the city’s mobility.
Further info: http://magicofpersia.com/index.php?rel=events
Organised by: MOP Foundation
British Iranian Medical Association - BIMA
Date: Thursday, 17 November
Time: 19:15 - 21:00
Room: Room B102, 1st Floor, Brunei Gallery
*Tea and nabat will be available from 7pm.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Onuy5USTc
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/328288767547499/
Language: Persian (English subtitles)
Run Time: 117 mins (approx)
Synopsis: Set in contemporary Iran, A SEPARATION is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents' home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader.
When Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father in his wife's absence, he hopes that his life will return to a normal state. However, when he discovers that the new maid has been lying to him, he realizes that there is more on the line than just his marriage.
Organised by: SOAS Iranian Society
Middle Eastern Foodscapes: Iran and the Post-Ottoman World
Date: Wednesday, 16 November
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Room: Room FG01, Faber Building
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1786216788292801/
Speaker: Sami Zubaida
What is Iranian or Turkish, Arab or Armenian cuisines? These are labels which acquire importance on the global stage, with the modern acceleration of interest in food, becoming a spectacle and a recreation, with wide cultural and commercial consequences. The presentation will follow histories, geographies and vocabularies of food in the regions of Anatolia, Iran and the Arab Levant, to show that food cultures and innovations owe much to geography and communication, less to ethnicity and nationality.
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
iBRIDGES Meeting in London in support of iBRIDGE BARCELONA
Date: Thursday, 17 November
Time: 18:30 - 21:00
iBRIDGES is an initiative set up by the Iranian diaspora to provide an open, inclusive and collaborative initiative which aims to empower a worldwide high-tech entrepreneurial community, focused on those of Iranian descent.
iBRIDGES’s mission is to create a community of high-tech entrepreneurs of Iranian descent, energized to exchange knowledge, best practices, and innovative thinking and accelerate growth of an “innovation economies” worldwide.
Who Should Attend?
Any individual, business or public organisation who is interested in dealing in a personal or professional capacity with Iran.
Registration & Further info: https://www.binabusiness.events/ibridges
Exhibition as Editing Exercise, MOP CAP 2015 Winner
Exhibition Open: 10 - 17 November
Location: Sophia Contemporary Gallery, 11 Grosvenor Street, London W1K 4QB
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/238359069900683/
Tehran is a city both forged and forgotten by modernity. The ever-present hum of traffic, the continuous movement of people, the breathing of heavy, combusted air. Not only the mobile vehicles, but solidified infrastructures, pavements, highway exits, footbridges and construction sites – as well as the human adaptations and appropriations of space around them – seem to find varied, intermixed, negotiated ways of co-existence. In the mixture, the Chaloos Road, an engineering triumph, a motorway carved through the mountains escaping out of Tehran to the Caspian Sea, turns into an umbilical extension of urban life. Extracted from the earth itself, bitumen is rolled everywhere as the surface for modernity, offered as crude cure for the city’s mobility.
Further info: http://magicofpersia.com/index.php?rel=events
Organised by: MOP Foundation
British Iranian Medical Association - BIMA
Every year BIMA (along with other organisations) collaborates with Rustam School to organise mentoring events for children hoping to go to university. Our aim is to promote other subjects and also show them the path to university.
This year the event is being held at SOAS on Saturday 21st of January 2017
In order to have a successful event we need speakers to guide students about the application process, personal statements etc.
We are still short of a few speakers both (undergraduate and postgraduate) for the following subjects:
Journalism - Banking/Finance - Management - Art - Architecture - Teaching - Media/Film - Marketing -Sports
If you are interested or know anyone that would be of help then please leave a message. Ideally postgraduates should be recently graduated as children generally find it easier to build a rapport with those closer to their age.
We would really appreciate your help but this is for the children not for us!!
Email: in...@bima-uk.com
Web: http://www.bima-uk.com/
Job Vacancy: Persian Linguist
Appen is looking for a Linguist native speaker of Persian, with native speaker knowledge of the standard and Tehrani dialects.
The main duties include checking phonemic pronunciations of Persian words, doing small amounts of translation, checking some linguistic materials, and providing relevant linguistic expertise.
Further info: https://talent-appen.icims.com/jobs/1018/farsi-linguist/job
Non-Iranian events that may be of interest:
SOAS Centenary Event - Celebrating Egyptian Culture & Community in London
Date: Saturday, 19 November
Time: 14:00 - 20:30
Location: SOAS (Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Brunei Suite and Khalili Lecture Theatre)
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1149619975129120/
As part of the SOAS Centenary celebrations, the London Middle East Institute is hosting a special cultural day focused on Egypt featuring:
• Panel Discussion: The Changing Political Landscape in Contemporary Egypt
• Historic Cairo: Reflections on Recent Change and Continuity
• Egypt: Visual Iconography
• Film Screening: Hepta - The Last Lecture
• Film Screening: Al-Mummia (The Night of Counting the Years)
• Oud Performance: Joseph Tawadros
This event is free to attend, but please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/soas-centenary-event-celebrating-egyptian-culture-community-in-london-tickets-29307958894
Organised by: London Middle East Institute (LMEI) at SOAS
Trump and Brexit: What's your take?
Date: Thursday, 17 November
Time: 18:30
Location: St Ethelburga's, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG
A participatory dialogue event exploring what is beneath the surface of the recent political upheavals. With input from two 'provocative animators', we will engage deeply with questions of cultural, economic and generational division, and explore the call for change in all its guises. Diversity welcomed! Whatever your views, come and share them in an atmosphere of open-minded enquiry.
Facilitated by Sofia Bustamante (from the Art of Hosting network) in collaboration with Be the Change.
This is a free event. No need to register, but it helps us to know how many are coming, so if you are planning to attend, please email communications@stethelburgas.org
Organised by: St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Let us pray for clear skies tomorrow!
SOAS Centenary Event - Celebrating Egyptian Culture & Community in London
Date: Saturday, 19 November
Time: 14:00 - 20:30
Location: SOAS (Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Brunei Suite and Khalili Lecture Theatre)
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1149619975129120/
As part of the SOAS Centenary celebrations, the London Middle East Institute is hosting a special cultural day focused on Egypt featuring:
• Panel Discussion: The Changing Political Landscape in Contemporary Egypt
• Historic Cairo: Reflections on Recent Change and Continuity
• Egypt: Visual Iconography
• Film Screening: Hepta - The Last Lecture
• Film Screening: Al-Mummia (The Night of Counting the Years)
• Oud Performance: Joseph Tawadros
This event is free to attend, but please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/soas-centenary-event-celebrating-egyptian-culture-community-in-london-tickets-29307958894
Organised by: London Middle East Institute (LMEI) at SOAS
Trump and Brexit: What's your take?
Date: Thursday, 17 November
Time: 18:30
Location: St Ethelburga's, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG
A participatory dialogue event exploring what is beneath the surface of the recent political upheavals. With input from two 'provocative animators', we will engage deeply with questions of cultural, economic and generational division, and explore the call for change in all its guises. Diversity welcomed! Whatever your views, come and share them in an atmosphere of open-minded enquiry.
Facilitated by Sofia Bustamante (from the Art of Hosting network) in collaboration with Be the Change.
This is a free event. No need to register, but it helps us to know how many are coming, so if you are planning to attend, please email communications@stethelburgas.org
Organised by: St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Let us pray for clear skies tomorrow!
Have a good week all.
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