List of Persian/Iranian Events for 2007-05-25

May 25, Friday, 2:00 P.M.
Reading, discussion, book signing, PERSIAN GIRLS, memoir
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building
Info: 858 534 4618

Persian Girls, Nahid Rachlin’s recently published memoir about her earlier life in Iran, has garnered rave reviews. Christopher Merrill, the Director of Iowa International Writing Program, rates it as one of the best four books of 2006.



In addition to Persian Girls, Nahid Rachlin’s publications include four novels -- Jumping Over Fire (City Lights), Foreigner (W.W. Norton), Married to a Stranger (E.P. Dutton), and The Heart’s Desire (City Lights) -- and a collection of short stories, Veils (City Lights). Her short stories have appeared in about fifty magazines, and several of her stories have been anthologized. Her essays and reviews have been published in Natural History Magazine, The New York Times, and Newsday.



Nahid Rachlin has taught at Barnard College and Yale University. She is currently teaching at the New School University and will be teaching at the Geneva Writers Conference in February 2008.





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IAMA Annual Meeting; May 25-28 2007; San Francisco California

ARGENT HOTEL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

www.iama.org



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Dancing Across Cultures, an international dance extravaganza, choreographed by Sherene Melania, Artistic Director, featuring Presidio Dance Theatre with special guest artists of Ballet Afsaneh



Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

May 25 7pm

$35 General Admission



www.PresidioDance.org

Box Office will open one hour prior to performance

415 561-3958

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Event: Reading and book signing, PERSIAN GIRLS, memoir,



Date and time: Friday, May 25, 7:00 P.M.



Place: D.G.Wills Books, 7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla

Info:(858) 456-1800



PERSIAN GIRLS, (Penguin, October 2006)

In a story of ambition, oppression, hope, heartache, and sisterhood, Persian Girls traces Rachlin's coming of age in Iran under the late Shah-and her domineering father-her tangled family life, and her relationship with her older sister, and unexpected soul mate, Pari. Both girls refused to accept traditional roles prescribed for them under Muslim cultural laws. They devoured forbidden books. They had secret romances. But then things quickly changed. Pari was forced by her parents to marry a wealthy suitor, a cruel man who kept her a prisoner in her own home. After narrowly avoiding an unhappy match herself with a man her parents chose for her, Nahid came to America, where she found literary success. Back in Iran, however, Pari's dreams fell to pieces.



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