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Free: Honoring Shirin Neshat Gallery
For millennia, poetry and literature have been at the heart of Persian culture and identity, forming the foundation for much of Shirin Neshat’s practice. Emerging from the work of poets and writers fr...
9th Annual Bita Prize for Persian Arts: Shahrnush Parsipur
The recipient of the Ninth Bita Prize for Persian Arts is Ms. Shahrnush Parsipur. Ms. Parsipur is an acclaimed novelist and writer whose books have been translated in several languages. Her collection...
Shahrnush Parsipur and Brian Lucas: Readings and Poetry
Guest programmer Ava Koohbor brings us two readers tonight: novelist, Shahrnush Parsipur and poet, Brian Lucas. Arabesque Optics journeys beyond East and West, where language and form merge into rhyth...
Shahrnush Parsipur: The Power of Writing
6:30 – 7:00 PM Meeting begins (60 second introduction per member/ guest) 7:00 – 7:30 PM Talk by Shahrnush Parsipur Our Topic:The Power of Writting 7:30 – 8:00 PM Open Discussion 8:00 – 8:30 PM Min...
Jailed at Home, Tailed Abroad, Iranian Writer Talks Sex, Voting
One night after giving a speech in Ottawa, Iranian writer Shahrnush Parsipur was jolted from sleep. She suddenly remembered that the familiar-looking woman in the back of the room had been one of her ...
Lecture by Shahrnush Parsipur
KISSING THE SWORD with Shahrnush Parsipur, Laura Whitehorn, and Manijeh Moradian...
Shahrnush Parsipur in Conversation
Born in Iran in 1946, Shahrnush Parsipur began her career as a fiction writer and producer at Iranian National Television and Radio. She was imprisoned for nearly five years by the religious governmen...
"Women Without Men" by Shirin Neshat Screens
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Shahrnush Parsipur, author of the book, Women Without Men....
Book Reading by Shahrnush Parsipur in Tirgan Iranian Festival
Two book readings by the author from her best seller “Touba and the Meaning of Night”, one in English and one in Persian. Free Admission....
