Karimi Hakkak's poetry classes
Ramin Zoufonoun writes:
Dr Karimi Hakkak will be giving a series of literature seminars on Rumi
and Hafez. The series will start in Oct 1999 and will end in May 2000.
Seminars will be held on second Sunday of each month. Exact time of the
day and place TBD. The cost will be $25 per session, payable in whole on
the first class session. Please
confirm with me as soon as you can if you are interested AND committed
to attend Dr Hakkak's lecture series.
Please share this e-mail with those whom you think might be interested.
For those of you who wish to learn more about Dr Hakkak, below I have included
a biography of Dr. Hakkak.
The classes will start at 2:00 PM and will end at 6pm every second Sunday
of the month starting October 10 1999, ending on May 14, 2000. Classes
will be held at 1700 N. El Camino Real San Mateo, CA. 3rd Floor room 302
BIOGRAPHY
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak was born in Mashhad in 1944, and went through his
elementary and secondary schooling there. He then moved to Tehran and
received his B. A. (1966) in English literature from Tehran University.
He then continued his studies at the graduate level in the United States,
receiving his M.A. (1977) and Ph. D. (1979) in comparative literature from
Rutgers University. He has taught English literature at Tehran University
and comparative literature and Persian literature at several American universities,
including Rutgers, Columbia and Texas. He joined the faculty of the University
of Washington in 1985 where he is now full professor of Persian language
and literature and Iranian culture and civilization.
Professor Karimi-Hakkak is widely recognized as a literary critic who
has written extensively on Persian literature, both classical and modern.
He is also known as a translator of literary works from English and French
into Persian and from Persian into English. He is the author of fifteenbooks
and more than one hundred articles. His latest major, titled "Recasting
Persian Poetry: Scenarios of Poetic Modernity in Iran", is a study
of literary change in modern Iran.
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