Saeed Ghahremani: Torbati Dialect, a Khorāsāni Dialect, and the Struggle to Keep It Alive through Poetry

گویش تربتی، یکی از گویشهای خراسان، و تلاش برای زنده نگه داشتن آن از طریق شعر

You can listen to the talk here. The ghazal that we listened to can be downloaded here. The pictures from the slide show are displayed below.

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Dr. Reza Varjavand: Government Spending in Iran

Dr. Reza Varjavand discusses how government spending in Iran affects the Iranian economy, and how economic issues influence Iranian policy decisions. You can listen to his talk here.

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Theo Beers: Living and Working in Afghanistan

Theo is currently a graduate student in the NELC department at the University of Chicago, and he spent last year, as well as the three previous summers, working in Afghanistan at various NGOs. He spoke about his experiences living and working in Afghanistan, as well as presenting a slide show with photographs. You can listen to his talk here (part 1, part 2).

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Barbara Scharres

Barbara Scharres, the Director of Programming at Gene Siskel Film Center, discuss Iranian film and the upcoming Festival of Films from Iran. Her talk is in English.

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Zohreh Ghahremani

Zohreh Ghahremani, author and poet, discusses her new novel Sky of Red Poppies. Listen to her talk here.

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Dr. Heshmat Moayyad: Jokes in Persian

جوکها در زبان فارسی از آقا دکتر حشمت موید
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Saeed Ghahremani: Che Guevara in Iran

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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.

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Kaveh Ehsani: Iran’s Nuclear Program–Key to Technical Progress or an Instrument of Factional Political Power?

Listen to Professor Ehsani’s talk here.

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Chad Mowbray and Austin O’Malley: Living and Learning Persian in Tajikistan

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