September 10, 2005

Strange Times, My Dear
Video clips of Nahid Mozaffari and Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak at a book reading in Cody's Booksore in Berkeley, California on Tuesday September 6. Mozaffari has taught Middle Eastern history at the New School in New York, and at Cabot University in Rome, Italy. Karimi-Hakkak is Professor and Founding Director Center for Persian Studies (CPS) at the University of Maryland. They are on a U.S. book signing tour to promote Strange Times, My Dear: The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature (2005, Arcade Publishing), sponsored and Published by PEN AMERICA. Shahrnush Parsipur, who is featured in Strange Times, was also present and signed books. -- Jahanshah Javid

Mozaffari: Reading from Parsipur's "Women Without Men"	Karimi-Hakkak: Reciting Esmail Khoei's "Outlandia"
Mozaffari: Difficult 25 years for Iranian writers	Karimi-Hakkak: Unlike Iran, why is U.S. literature so apolitical?
Mozaffari: On U.S. (OFAC) restrictions on Iranian authors	Karimi-Hakkak: On U.S. (OFAC) restrictions on Iranian authors
Karimi-Hakkak: Translation & culture	Karimi-Hakkak: Overview of Iranian literature

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