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By ksalib, May 12, 2014 11:46 am

The Persian Circle presents:
انجمن سخن در دانشگاه شیکاگو تقدیم می کند

Anita Alkhas / انیتا الخاص

Show and Tell: زندگی و هنر هانیبال و آدری الخاص

Wed. May 14, 5:00–6:30pm
Pick 222, 5828 S University Ave

Anita Alkhas is Associate Professor of French in the Department of French, Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published articles on French culture and literature with an emphasis on the creative process and on modernism. Her family has held a prominent place in the arts for generations; her grandfather, Rabi Addai Alkhas (1897-1959), translated the Gilgamesh epic into Assyrian Aramaic and founded an important Assyrian literary journal, while her uncle John was a well-known poet. Her father Hannibal (1930–2010) was a sculptor, painter, and author who received his BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught at various instutions both in the US and in Iran. He was also the founder of the Gilgamesh gallery, the first modern art gallery in Iran where aspiring young artists were introduced. Anita will be speaking about her experiences growing up with her family of artists as an Iranian-American living in 1970s Iran.

See the following links to learn more about Hannibal’s work:

http://www.iranchamber.com/art/halkhas/hannibal_alkhas.php
http://www.hannibal-alkhas.org/

به امید دیدار،
کامران