Barbara Scharres

By , October 12, 2010 4:14 am

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.

Zohreh Ghahremani

By , October 5, 2010 10:58 pm

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

Dr. Heshmat Moayyad: Jokes in Persian

By , March 2, 2010 11:07 pm

جوکها در زبان فارسی از آقا دکتر حشمت موید
Listen to Dr. Moayyad’s talk here.

Saeed Ghahremani: Che Guevara in Iran

By , February 16, 2010 3:42 pm

Listen to Dr. Ghahremani’s talk here.

Stephen Kinzer: A Journalist Discovers Iran and Mosaddeq

By , January 12, 2010 11:38 pm

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?

By , November 19, 2009 4:41 pm

Listen to Professor Ehsani’s talk here.

Maqam: Jewish ensemble from the city of Bukhara

By , October 15, 2009 9:19 pm

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: The Satire of Ṣāḍeq-e Hedāyat

By , January 30, 2009 3:28 pm

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

By , January 23, 2009 3:44 am

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 شعر فارسی تغییر کرده‌است با مرور زمان

Padrom Partovi: Research and Institutional Cooperation in Iran-Some Notes from a Recent Visit

By , December 12, 2008 8:36 pm

You can listen to this talk here.

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