List of Persian/Iranian Events for 2012-04-03
Professor Majid Naini on Radio 670 AM
Los Angeles Tuesday - April 3, 2012 08:30 AM
Universal Vision & Research is proud to announce that Professor Majid Naini will be a guest on the famous Radio 670 AM based in Los Angeles on Tuesday April 3, 2012 at 8:30 am (PST – California time) /11:30 am (EST). Dr. Naini will talk about Rumi and the new spring. To hear Dr. Naini please tune into 670 AM if you are in California or go to http://www.670amkirn.com/ and press the Listen Live button.
Digging In: An American Archaeologist Uncovers the Real Iran by Linda Jacobs
New York Tuesday - April 3, 2012 07:00 PM
Doors 6:30pm
In 1974, Dr. Linda Jacobs was invited to participate in an archeological dig in Iran. Digging In: An American Archaeologist Uncovers the Real Iran (Kalimah Press, 2011) reveals an Iran that the West never hears about. This book describes the practice of archaeological excavations, the history of the region, and the early civilizations that inhabited present-day Iran as well as the author’s story of self-discovery. Jacobs shares with the reader her emotional journey to understand Iranian culture that felt both strange and familiar. In spite of class, culture, and language differences, she and the villagers, who hosted her, formed a friendship that has withstood the test of time, distance, and political revolution. Dr. Jacobs will share stories and photos of her hosts when they first met and in 2008.
Dr. Jacobs has served on the Boards of several nonprofits as well as a Fortune 500 engineering company, worked in the private sector with the East-West Group,founded a small consulting firm, and served as the Chief Development Officer and President of the Near East Foundation. Jacobs earned her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology from the University of Oregon and has conducted extensive field work in Jordan and Iran. She is currently writing a social geography of the nineteenth-century Syrian Colony in New York City.
Books will be on sale or purchase at www.KalimahPress.com
More info at http://alwanforthearts.org/event/845
In 1974, Dr. Linda Jacobs was invited to participate in an archeological dig in Iran. Digging In: An American Archaeologist Uncovers the Real Iran (Kalimah Press, 2011) reveals an Iran that the West never hears about. This book describes the practice of archaeological excavations, the history of the region, and the early civilizations that inhabited present-day Iran as well as the author’s story of self-discovery. Jacobs shares with the reader her emotional journey to understand Iranian culture that felt both strange and familiar. In spite of class, culture, and language differences, she and the villagers, who hosted her, formed a friendship that has withstood the test of time, distance, and political revolution. Dr. Jacobs will share stories and photos of her hosts when they first met and in 2008.
Dr. Jacobs has served on the Boards of several nonprofits as well as a Fortune 500 engineering company, worked in the private sector with the East-West Group,founded a small consulting firm, and served as the Chief Development Officer and President of the Near East Foundation. Jacobs earned her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology from the University of Oregon and has conducted extensive field work in Jordan and Iran. She is currently writing a social geography of the nineteenth-century Syrian Colony in New York City.
Books will be on sale or purchase at www.KalimahPress.com
More info at http://alwanforthearts.org/event/845
Chanticleer performance based on Dr. Majid Naini's selection and translation of Rumi Poetry
Bay Area - San Francisco Tuesday - April 3, 2012 08:00 PM
Award-winning American composer Shawn Crouch's new work, The Garden of Paradise will be performed once again by the Grammy award winning Chanticleer group. The piece is based on the poems of poet Brian Turner, an Iraq war veteran, whose moving accounts of the war are set along side the poetry of the Persian poet Rumi, as selected from among 80,000 lines of poetry and translated by the renowned Rumi scholar, Professor Majid M. Naini.
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