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Event: Fund Raising Event for Children

Date: Thursday March 3, 2005

Time: 6:00PM - 11:00PM

Location: CLOUD (formerly Savino's Cafe)

Address: One Dupont Circle, Washington, DC 20036

Price: $7 Donation at the door

Details: 100% of all proceeds will benefit Children of Persia

For More Information, Please Visit www.igsfumd.org/news.htm

There will be plenty of great drink specials all night long and a raffle for great prizes including tickets to "Mohammad Reza Shajarian" at the Kennedy Center on saturday, March 5th And good seats for an upcoming NBA game at MCI center on Saturday, March 19.

We are pleased to anounce we have arranged for 2 great guest speakers. One will be "Afshin Molavi", the author of Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran, which was named by Lonely Planet as one of two "must-reads" for travelers to Iran, nominated for the Thomas Cook literary travel book of the year award. Molavi has covered Iran for the Washington Post and Reuters and his articles have appeared, among other places, in the Financial Times, the New Republic, and Foreign Policy. The other, Dr. "Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak",the famous writer-transaltor, Professor and Director of the University of Maryland’s Persian Studies Center.

100% of the proceeds from the event will benefit Children of Persia, a well respected, world-class organization with great leadership.