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12:30 PM » Zanan Gathering

Speaker: Soheila Vahdaty

Soheila is a human rights activist with a special interest in women’s issues. She is a freelance writer and journalist working with other Iranian women journalists at www.womeniniran.org. Her contributions to the site include articles on women’s issues as well as “womanly experiences” (tajrobeh-haye zananeh) illustrating scenes of a woman’s daily life in a patriarchal society (e.g.,
http://www.womeniniran.org/archives/FMO/000475.php ).

She also contributes to zanan.iran-emrooz.de (e.g.,
http://zanan.iran-emrooz.de/more.php?id=6576_0_10_0_C )

Believing in building cultural bridges through translation, she translates
international human rights documents from English to Farsi (e.g.,
http://zanan.iran-emrooz.de/more.php?id=1506_0_10_0_M) and is currently translating a book about a Persian folk story, Sange-Sabour (The Patient Stone), from an American feminist anthropologist view, written by Karen Miller. This book is expected to be published by Sazmane Mirase Farhangi by the end of this year.

Her “womanly experiences” and interviews with prominent Iranian women are to be published as books.

Soheila is an engineer by profession and holds a PhD in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley. She will talk about her articles "womanly experiences" and her experience working with different Iranian women web sites.

WHEN: Saturday November 20

TIME: 12:30 - 3:30 PM

LOCATION: Meeting Room
Claremont Branch Library
2940 Benvenue Ave
Berkeley, CA 94705

DIRECTION: From San Jose, Taking I-880 N
I-880 N becomes I-880 N/CA-84 W.
Take I-980 E towards WALNUT CREEK
Merge onto I-980 E.
Take CA-24 E towards BERKELEY/WALNUT
CREEK
Merge onto CA-24 E.
Take the CLAREMONT AVENUE exit.
Turn LEFT onto CLAREMONT AVE.
Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto COLLEGE AVE.
Turn LEFT onto ASHBY AVE/CA-13.
Turn LEFT onto BENVENUE AVE.