The entertainment segment of the conference featured two bands. This photo shows the first segment, Fared Shafinury and his band Tehranosaurus. Beautiful music!
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley
Impromptu 13-bedar after the conference! Back row from left: Nazy Kaviani and author Persis Karim; second row from left: artist Taraneh Hemami, standup comic Tissa Hami, Mastaneh, writer Parissa Ebrahimzadeh, author Shirin May; front row: scholar Afsaneh Kalantari, authors Manijeh Nasrabadi and Shirindokht Nourmanesh.
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley
Film Director Taghi Amirani.
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley
Director Jason Rezaian (right).
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley
Iranian poet Ziba Karbassi, will be a guest of Stanford's Moghaddam Program in Iranian Studies.
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley
Writer/poet Shirindokht Nourmanesh (left), and Iranian poet in exile, Ziba Karbassi (right).
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley
New friendships: from left, Poet/Author and scholar Persis Karim, musician Fared Shafinury, Director Taghi Amirani, and media expert Mahdis Keshavarz.
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley
During the closing remarks, the hard working IAAB staff and volunteers were thanked.
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley
In the “Going ‘Back Home’: Narratives of Exploration and Engagement” panel, this young musician, Fared Shafinury, talked about going back to Iran to find his roots and to learn classical Iranian music under music masters for two years. This is a fascinating story. I will tell it separately when I do a report on Fared and his music.
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley
I should have bought one of those cool T-Shirts! It said in beautiful Iranian calligraphy on it: banee aadam azaaye yek peykarand...
Photo essay: Iranian Alliances Across Borders conference in Berkeley