List of Persian/Iranian Events for 2009-02-05

SUFISM: Mystical Ecumenism
Photography from the heartlands of Muslim mysticism by Iason Athanasiadis
Event Info Host: Journalists in the Middle East
Type: Music/Arts - Concert
Network: Global
Time and Place Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Center for Government and International Studies (South Building), Harvard University,
Street: 1730 Cambridge Street
City/Town: Cambridge, MA
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DescriptionTravel through the heartlands of Sufism with the hypnotic images of Iason Athanasiadis.
SUFISM: Mystical Ecumenism is a visual journey through Bilad ash-Sham, Khorassan and the Punjab chronicling the movement and rhythm of zikr, the ecstatic ceremony practiced by Sufi orders around the Muslim World.

Shot by photojournalist and 2008 Harvard Nieman fellow Iason Athanasiadis in present-day Iran, Pakistan, Syria and Turkey, it documents the extraordinary diversity of a mystical Islam gaining in popularity in the West but worryingly absent from media coverage of the world’s most controversial religion.

The exhibition runs 5 February through 31 March at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies

Opening: 5 February 2008, 17:00-19:00
Center for Government and International Studies (South Building), Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, 02138

The Dunya Ensemble will perform music from Islam’s mystical traditions at 18.30 in the Tsai Auditorium
Opening reception sponsored by the ILEX Foundation

Location: Harvard University

The Translation Project, in partnership with the SF International Poetry Festival, the Friends of the SF Public Library and the Asia Society, celebrate Iranian diaspora poetry of the past 30 years.

Events are FREE and OPEN to the public. Registration is highly recommended.

Thursday February 5th, 2009
“30 Years of BeLonging”, a roundtable discussion about the future of diaspora literature, with poets featured in BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World, Ziba Karbassi, Granaz Moussavi, Majid Naficy, Partow Nooriala, Abbas Saffari, as well as with SF Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman and Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, professor of Asian American Studies at SFSU. Moderated by Niloufar Talebi.

Fort Mason Book Bay, San Francisco
Building C, Room 165
Phone 415-771-1076
6:30 PM
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Friday February 6th, 2009
Honoring Ziba Karbassi, Granaz Moussavi, Majid Naficy, Partow Nooriala, Abbas Saffari, poets featured in BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World, gathered from all over the world! Reception, reading, and film screening.

Friends of the SF Public Library
391 Grove Street, San Francisco
Phone 415-626-7500
6:30 PM
REGISTER HERE: https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=964772

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