Guided Search: Education, Iranian

Can an immigrant’s story be universal in today’s America? To find out, Emmy-award winning performer Kayhan Irani excavates memory and experience to reconstruct a sense of belonging. Using video projections, live performance, and humor, Irani embodies characters from her journey and invites the audience to share their own stories. IJ curator Alex Shaw joins Irani as a guest artist.

A conversation with Afshon Ostovar.

Foreign Policy Research Institute's ​Geopolitics with Granieri will feature Afshon Ostovar, Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, on his new book Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, Iran's most powerful armed force.

“Revered among aficionados of Persian classical and folk music, Sahba Motallebi is a virtuoso performer on the long-necked stringed instruments known as tar and setar. ” – LA Weekly

Come and experience a taste of Lebanon, from delicious Middle Eastern food to traditional dance and music as well as a performance from St. Maron's Dabke Troop.

Join fellow travelers for a sociable exchange of world travels, with delicious hors d’oeuvres and a glass of wine included.

A Tuition-Free Six-Part Lecture Series: Wednesday Evenings at 7pm beginning March 4, 2015

 Iran – once the East’s powerful center of art and culture – has of late been considered by many a radical and repressive member of the “Evil Empire.”

Some argue that the election of President Rouhani offers an opportunity which must be seized to negotiate a diplomatic repair of Iran’s relations with the United States and the West, and in particular, to resolve the question of Iranian nuclear weapons ambitions. Others argue that the apparent Iranian moderation is a sham and that no diplomatic solution to the nuclear issue is possible.

The University of Pennsylvania Persian Society cordially invites you to a party celebrating Persian New Year ("Nowruz") on Friday, March 29th.

Project for Nuclear Awareness and Drexel School of Public Health sponsor a panel discussion on Iran, NPT, Loose Nukes, and Nuclear Solutions. Scheduled Speakers include Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr, Professor Frank von Hippel, chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, and Professor Jim Ranney, Widener Law School