List of Persian/Iranian Events for 2008-02-08

Stirling University

D1, Pathfoot Building

Stirling, Scotland

Thurs 28th February 2008.

5.30 – 7.00 pm



From Siberia to Iran 1942

http://www.iranian.com/main/2007/lost-requiem



A Showing of the documentary

“Lost Requiem” by Khosrow Sinai

Introduced by Ryszard Antolak



An episode of history all but erased from public memory.



In 1942, 150,000 Polish men, women and children, recently released from the Soviet work camps of Siberia, were allowed to enter Iran via the Caspian port of Pahlavi (Anzali). Within weeks of their arrival, thousands were dead. For the others, their lives were never the same again.





Iranian documentary film in Farsi, English and Polish.

First Showing in UK.



Free.



motyl@blueyonder.co.uk>

Rumi-nation - special concert with dariush & sussan deyhim
celebrating Rumi. farzin farhadi and his group will perform
songs from the album "the beloved is here". Fri feb 8th.
Herbst theater, SF. 401 van ness. 8:30 pm, doors open at 7:30.
tkts at cityboxoffice. com, 415-3920-4400.

Please review upcoming talk co-sponsored by the Hamid & Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies:


The Center for South Asia
Division of International, Comparative, and Area Studies

presents

Zoroastrian Apocalyptic Texts as History

Prof. Touraj Daryaee

Howard Baskerville Professor in the history of Iran and the Persianate World
Associate Director, Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture

University of California, Irvine

7 p.m. Friday, February 8, 2008

History Corner, Building 200, Room 2 (basement level)




Professor Daryaee will speak on the importance of Zoroastrian Apocalyptic texts for understanding religious and political movements in antiquity and the early medieval period. These Zoroastrian Pahlavi texts, some still virtually unexplored, inform us about the Arsacid religion, Sasanian Zoroastrian Orthodoxy and the early Iranian political and sectarian movements in the seventh and eighth centuries CE.

Following the main presentation, Dr. Daryaee will show and discuss pictures of the 700-year-old Avesta manuscript recently acquired by National Iranian Archives. In his recent visit to Iran he was one of the few experts who could see and examine this remarkable manuscript.

Dr. Daryaee’s research has focused on ancient and early medieval history of Iran, specifically the Sasanian Empire. He has worked on Middle Persian literature, editing and translating several texts with commentary on geography, dinner speech, chess and backgammon. He is also interested in the history of Zoroastrianism in Late Antiquity and its encounter with Islam. He is the editor of the Name-ye Iran-e Bastan: The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies as well as the electronic journal, Bulletin of Ancient Iranian History and the director of Sasanika: Late Antique Near East Project.

Co-sponsored by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies


This event is part of Stanford’s lecture series in Zoroastrian Studies.


Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=01-200
Closest parking is at the Oval. Look for corner of Lasuen Malland Serra St. (to your left if facing Memorial Church from the Oval).

Friday February 8th, 8 P.M. (San Diego)

THE NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUYE.

10640 JOHN JAY HOPKINS DR. SAN DIEGO, CA, 92121



INFORMATION AND TICKETS: ZAMAN PRODUCTIONS

(619) 688-0688

Shab Sher in New Jersey

Friday, February 8, 2008 - 8 PM

Shab Sher of Guilan & Mazandaran

(Poetry, Culture & Music of Guilan & Mazandaran)

Fiesta, Wood-Ridge, New Jersey

Ticket: $40

Tel:

212-683-7700

201-935-8033

646-772-3796

Email:

Iraniesq@aol.com