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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
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- 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
- Zohreh Ghahremani
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Speakers
Aliev Bahriddin Austin O'Malley Barbara Scharres Bruce Lincoln Chad Mowbray cinema Fatih Kurşun film Hayedeh Torabi Heshmat Moayyad 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 Reza Varjavand Rumi Saeed Ghahremani Stephen Kinzer Theo Beers Zohreh Ghahremani
Category Archives: Presentations
Zohreh Ghahremani
Zohreh Ghahremani, author and poet, discusses her new novel Sky of Red Poppies. Listen to her talk here.
Dr. Heshmat Moayyad: Jokes in Persian
جوکها در زبان فارسی از آقا دکتر حشمت موید
Listen to Dr. Moayyad’s talk here.
Saeed Ghahremani: Che Guevara in Iran
Listen to Dr. Ghahremani’s talk here.
Stephen Kinzer: A Journalist Discovers Iran and Mosaddeq
Stephen Kinzer, author of All the Shah’s Men, discusses Mossadeq and the 1953 coup. Listen to his talk (in English) here.
Kaveh Ehsani: Iran’s Nuclear Program–Key to Technical Progress or an Instrument of Factional Political Power?
Listen to Professor Ehsani’s talk here.
Chad Mowbray and Austin O’Malley: Living and Learning Persian in Tajikistan
You can listen to this talk here.
Mohammad Majdzadeh: Radio in Iran
رادیو در ایران امروز همراه با فیلم /
گزارشی مستند از فستیوال مونولوگ خوانی توسط صداپیشگان رادیوی ایران/
کار محمد مجدزاده
“Radio in Iran” along with a film by Mohammad Majdzadeh
Mohammad Majdzadeh was born in Tehran-Iran in 1973. After high school he studied … Continue reading
Maqam: Jewish ensemble from the city of Bukhara
The members of Maqam, a Jewish ensemble from Bukhara, talk about their music and give us a short performance. You can listen here.
Heshmat Moayyad: Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh
Listen to Dr. Moayyad’s talk here.
