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What you have always wanted to know about (IRAN) but were afraid to ask
Persian Tapestry and the Liu Institute present:
"What you have always wanted to know about (IRAN) but were afraid to ask!"
An interactive multimedia evening on alternative images of Iranians:
Date: March 17th, 2004 Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Venue: The Liu Institute for Global Issues 6476 NW Marine Drive (UBC: Gate 4 across from the Anthropology Museum)
Program Outline:
* "An old civilization in the eyes' of a "FARANGI"! Maurice Copithorne (UBC Law Faculty,one of the the founding staff of the Canadian Embassy in Tehran and former Special UN epresentative on Human Rights)
* "The Window to Iran Project" www.windowtoiran.com A group of Canadian media students who travel through Iran to document what they discover first-hand.
"To my surprise they certainly had a much better understanding of our culture than I had of theirs." Erin Cumming
* "Nations without States: Images from everyday life in Iran" Zohreh Bayatrizi (Ph.D. Candidate, UBC Department of Anthropology and Sociology)
By focusing on everyday life of the ordinary people not likely seen in mass media, her slide show attempts to offer a de-politicized (or less politicized) image of Iranians.
Posted by talieshah () at March 17, 2004 5:30 PM
