Past Events
Learn More About the Persian Studies Program by Viewing This Gallery of Our Past Events
April 2013
Iran's Upcoming Election and Nuclear Dispute Dr. Dariush Zahedi Thursday April 11, 2013, 7 pm MLK Library 225/229
Tremors Reading and Book singing
Thursday April 4, 2013, 7 pm MLK Library 225/229
Iranian American Writers
March 2013
Iranian Women Occupying Facebook: Identity and Resistance By Dr. Shahin Gerami
March 19, 2013, 5:30pm - 7:30 pm MLK Library 255/257
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here March 14, 2013 7 pm MLK Library Room 225/229
November 2012
Nuclear Ambitions, Human Rights, and the future of US-Iran Relations
Please Join Us to Welcome Our Distinguished Panel
Dr. Mahmoud Monshipouri, San Francisco State University
Nazy Kaviani, Committee to Protect Journalists
Firuzeh Mahmoudi, United for Iran
November 29, 7 pm, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 225/229
San Jose State University, 4th and San Fernando St.
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Join the Iranian Studies Program at San José State University and the MFA Creative
Writing Program for a reading and conversation with Bay Area Iranian-American Novelist:
Anita Amirrezvani, author of Equal of the Sun
November 19, 7 pm, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 225/229
San Jose State University, 4th and San Fernando St.
Anita Amirrezvani was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in San Francisco. Her first
novel, The Blood of Flowers, has appeared in more than 25 languages and was long-listed for the 2008 Orange Prize
for Fiction. Her second novel, Equal of the Sun, was published by Scribner in June, 2012. Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian-American Writers, an anthology co-edited by Anita and Persis Karim, will appear in Spring, 2013. Anita
teaches at the California College of the Arts and at Sonoma State University.
Sponsored by the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, the Iranian
Studies Program, the MFA Creative Writing Program, and the Department of Humanities.
Co-Sponsored by the Associated Students of SJSU and the Student Association for Middle East Studies.
Made Possible with a grant from the PARSA Community Foundation in collaboration with
Iranian Heritage Foundation (USA)
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October 2012
The Iranian Studies Program at San José State University and the Association of Iranian
American Writers (AIAW) invite you to an evening of poetry and conversation:
Ghazal Games — An Evening with Iranian-American Poet and Translator Roger Sedarat
Thursday, October 11, 2012, 7 PM
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 225/229
San Jose State University, 4th and San Fernando St.
Roger Sedarat is the author of the poetry collections, Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, which won Ohio UP's 2007 Hollis Summers' Prize, and Ghazal Games (Ohio UP, 2011). His translations of classical and modern Persian poetry have appeared in World Literature Today, Drunken Boat, and Ezra. He teaches poetry and literary translation in the MFA program at Queens College, City University of New York.
Made possible with a grant from the PARSA Community Foundation (incollaboration with Iran Heritage Foundation, USA)
Co-sponsored by the Student Association
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[April 12, 2012]
baharaneh
An Evening of Music & Poetry to Celebrate Spring
[March 11, 2012]
The History of Women in Ancient and Early Medieval Iran
Dr. Touraj Darayee
[March 8, 2012]
Recollections: Art & the Archive of an Iranian-American Journey:
Works by Acclaimed Bay Area Artist Taraneh Hemami
Taraneh Hemami explores themes of displacement, preservation, and representation in personal and
collective projects, from permanent and ephemeral installations to object and media
productions. 
[February 23, 2012]
Dog Sweat Special Screening
Q&A with Film Director Hossein Keshavarz
[October 21, 2011]
An Evening with Marina Nemat, author "Prisoner of Tehran" & "After Tehran: A Life
Reclaimed"
