March, 2017 Events
- buy Pregabalin Lyrica online March 5, 2017, 3:30 PM — Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
10th Anniversary Commemorative Reading
Great Overland Bookstore, 345 Judah Street, San Francisco - Praia Grande March 8, 2017, 11:00 AM — “Women Writing Iran: Shahrnush Parsipur and Shirin Neshat”
San Francisco City College - March 8, 2017, 7 PM — Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
10th Anniversary Commemorative Reading
Moe’s Bookstore, Telegraph Ave., Berkeley - March 15, 2017, 1:30 PM — “The Poetics and Politics of Building an Archive of the Iranian Diaspora”
San Francisco State University - March 22, 2017, 12:30-1:30 PM — A Celebration of Poetry
Marking International Women’s History Month
Evergreen Valley College
Dr. Persis Karim is the founding director of the Persian Studies program at San Jose State University. The upcoming events for the Fall 2016 semesters are listed on our website at: www.sjsu.edu/persianstudies
Thursday, September 15, 2016, 5:30-7:00pm
“The Stories We Tell: Iranian Americans, Diaspora Narratives, and the Making of an Archive”
David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
IAWF Event from Arash Maleki on Vimeo.
March 2, 2015–12 PM
International Women’s Day
“Women and the Emergence of Iranian-American Literary Landscapes”
Reading and Discussion with Persis Karim
Santa Rosa Community College, Santa Rosa, California
April 3, 2015, 6 PM, Main Stage Theater, La Guardia Performing Arts Center, New York
“Rough Draft Festival” reading of “Inja o Oonja: Stories of Iranian-American Life” at La Guardia Community College Performing Arts Center (Q & A with Persis Karim, author of “Something to Pray For” which is part of the stage adaptation of Inja o Oonja) http://siteline2.vendini.com/site/laguardiaperformingarts.org/rd-reading
April 7, 2015–7 PM
Reading of Poetry and Translation with Persis Karim
Sponsored by “Poetic Voices of the Muslim World”
in Collaboration with Poet Lore, New York and the National Endowment for the Humanities
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California
April 8, 2015–7 PM
Azadi va Edalat: Stories Retold by Contemporary Iranian Women Artists
Reading and Discussion with Persis Karim
Oglethorpe University, Museum of Art
Atlanta, Georgia
April 8, 2015–7 PM
Azadi va Edalat: Stories Retold by Contemporary Iranian Women Artists
Reading and Discussion with Persis Karim
Oglethorpe University, Museum of Art
Atlanta, Georgia
April 7, 2015–7 PM
Reading of Poetry and Translation with Persis Karim
Sponsored by “Poetic Voices of the Muslim World”
in Collaboration with Poet Lore, New York and the National Endowment for the Humanities
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California
April 3, 2015, 6 PM, Main Stage Theater, La Guardia Performing Arts Center, New York
“Rough Draft Festival” reading of “Inja o Oonja: Stories of Iranian-American Life” at La Guardia Community College Performing Arts Center (Q & A with Persis Karim, author of “Something to Pray For” which is part of the stage adaptation of Inja o Oonja) http://siteline2.vendini.com/site/laguardiaperformingarts.org/rd-reading
March 2, 2015–12 PM
International Women’s Day
“Women and the Emergence of Iranian-American Literary Landscapes”
Reading and Discussion with Persis Karim
Santa Rosa Community College, Santa Rosa, California
Three Poets, One Voice, A Benefit for Gaza
with
Deema K. Shehabi, Persis Karim, and Shadab Zeest Hashmi
Oakland, CA, November 14, 2014
Past Event Listing
- Feb. 27 2014 University of Washington, Bookstore, Seattle Washington
- Oct. 23 2013 Tremors reading with Anita Amirrezvani, Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies, UC Irvine
- Oct. 19 2013 LitCrawl with SJSU Faculty, part of Litquake 2014, time and venue to be announced, SF, CA
- Oct. 13 2013 Reading With Tremors Authors Litquake 2014. “off the Ritcher Scale” at Hotel Rex, San Francisco