A public lecture by Nasrin Rahimieh, UC Irvine
Sunday, January 21, 2007
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dodd Hall 147
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Nasrin Rahimieh is a Professor of Comparative Literature and the Maseeh Chair and Director of Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. She was formerly the Dean of Humanities at McMaster University in Canada. Her research has focused on intercultural encounters between Iran and the West, modern Persian literature, literature of exile and displacement, women's writing, and post-revolutionary Iranian cinema. Her publications include Oriental Responses to the West: Comparative Essays on Muslim Writers from the Middle East and Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Heritage.
This lecture is part of the Center's Persian Lecture Series.
Lecture will be delivered in Persian.
Cost : Free
Peter Szanton, Center for Near Eastern Studies
(310) 825-1455
pszanton@international.ucla.edu www.international.ucla.edu/cnes
Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies