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Monthly Archive for May, 2020

Please join us this Thursday on Zoom for our last Persian Circle of the year. This week we are glad to welcome Kaveh Hemmat, graduate of the University of Chicago, who will discuss:

کارتونها به زبان فارسی

“Cartoons in Persian”

Thursday May 28th, from 5:00-6:30pm

با سلام

لطفا این پنجشنبه در زوم با ما […]

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Salaam friends and colleagues, 

Please join us this Thursday on Zoom for a discussion on this interview of Ebrahim Golestan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzVJvuXx0gc. This week, we will try watching the interview ahead of time and then meeting to discuss. The interview is about his memory of Forough Farrokhzad, entitled: 

فروغ در یاد ابراهیم گلستان

“Forough in Ebrahim Golestan’s Memory”  

Thursday May […]

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5/14 “Salaam Cinema”

Salaam friends and colleagues, 

Please join us this Thursday on Zoom for a screening of the film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf entitled: 

سلام سینما 

“Hello Cinema”  

Thursday May 14th, from 5:00-6:30pm

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie […]

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5/7 “The Afghan Alphabet”

Salaam friends and colleagues, 

Please join us this Thursday on Zoom for a screening of the documentary by Mohsen Makhmalbaf entitled: 

الفبای افغان 

“The Afghan Alphabet”  

Thursday May 7th, from 5:00-6:30pm

This documentary shows the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by the Taliban regime. It has English subtitles.

با […]

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