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The entertainment segment of the conference featured two bands. This photo shows the first segment, Fared Shafinury and his band Tehranosaurus. Beautiful music!

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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.

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Film Director Taghi Amirani.

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Director Jason Rezaian (right).

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Iranian poet Ziba Karbassi, will be a guest of Stanford's Moghaddam Program in Iranian Studies.

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Writer/poet Shirindokht Nourmanesh (left), and Iranian poet in exile, Ziba Karbassi (right).

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New friendships: from left, Poet/Author and scholar Persis Karim, musician Fared Shafinury, Director Taghi Amirani, and media expert Mahdis Keshavarz.

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Amy Malek of UCLA

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During the closing remarks, the hard working IAAB staff and volunteers were thanked.

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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.

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I should have bought one of those cool T-Shirts! It said in beautiful Iranian calligraphy on it: banee aadam azaaye yek peykarand...

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