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The Persian Circle is a weekly lecture in Persian at the University of Chicago's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. This lecture series includes social, cultural and academic discussions about the Persian-speaking world and is led by faculty, students and visiting scholars. The opinions of the speakers are their own. Background pattern created by ransie3.
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Recent Posts
- Prof. Alireza Doostdar’s presentation
- Updates
- Cameron Cross discusses “Vis o Rāmin”
- Dr. Naser Keyvan’s talk
- Iranian films at the Siskel Center
- Hayedeh Torabi: A Review of “A Separation”
- Welcome, and updates
- Fatih Kurşun: My trip to Iran
- Teaching Persian in Tajikistan
- Matt Stolper: The Persepolis Fortification Archive
- Bruce Lincoln: An Introduction to Pre-Islamic Iranian Religions
- Saeed Ghahremani: Torbati Dialect, a Khorāsāni Dialect, and the Struggle to Keep It Alive through Poetry
- Dr. Reza Varjavand: Government Spending in Iran
- Theo Beers: Living and Working in Afghanistan
- Barbara Scharres
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Aliev Bahriddin alireza doostdar Austin O'Malley Barbara Scharres Bruce Lincoln cameron cross Chad Mowbray cinema Fatih Kurşun film gorgani Hayedeh Torabi Heshmat Moayyad intellectual history James Clark Kaveh Ehsani Kaveh Hemmat Kioumars Ghereghlou Maqam Matt Stolper Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa Mohammad Majdzadeh Ms. Fazeli Ms. Niyavarani Ms. Zendebad Naser Keyvan Pedram Partovi poetry religion Reza Varjavand Rumi Saeed Ghahremani Stephen Kinzer Theo Beers vis o ramin Zohreh Ghahremani
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Heshmat Moayyad: The Satire of Ṣāḍeq-e Hedāyat
آقا دکتر حشمت موید ارائه می کند راجع به طنز سیاسی صادق هدایت
Listen to the talk and download the handout
Saeed Ghahremani: The Metamorphoses of Wolves in Persian Poetry
Dr. Saeed Ghahremani discusses how the image of the wolf in Persian poetry has changed over time. You can listen to his talk here. The accompanying handout is available here.
آقا دکتر سعید قهرمانی توضیح می دهد که نقش گرگها در … Continue reading
