Iranian-American Women's Conference in Washington DC

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by sarasepidzadeh
28-Jul-2012
 

This was a great event I attended with a few of my girlfriends. It is run by Mariam Khosravani from Orange County, who put on an incredible show at the Georgetown University on June 23rd, 2012. The most inspiring speakers for sure were CNN's Parisa Khosravi, Astronaut Tourist Lady Anousheh Ansari, the CEO of healthEZ Nazie Eftekhari and Big Bad Boo's Shabnam Rezaei. There were also some amazing authors there such as Najmieh Batmanglij. There is another conference in September in Orange County and that is the 4th one. Congrats to all the ladies for talking about such diverse topics and being so successful.

Here is some coverage of the event from Noveen TV.

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working together

by sarasepidzadeh on Mon Jul 30, 2012 12:16 PM PDT

hi there hafez fb

 

I totally agree! All the women here had done something on their "own". Like you said, it is a good start. I think we have a jealous culture, perhaps. Is that the cause? Iranians get jealous of each other and undermine each other? I am not sure - welcome your thoughts on this. And I agree with you! Hopefully soon we can work together and have a cultural cetner.

 

 

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"hamkari"

by Hafez for Beginners on Mon Jul 30, 2012 07:52 AM PDT

This is wonderful and thanks for the post.

I have to say, however, we are much better at celebrating individual success stories - we've done so well in the US on that level. However, as a community, we have done very little collectively - we don't even have a decent, presentable cultural center in any of US's cities, where we can take our American friends. 

The only times we come together, is to come and celebrate individual success stories. It's a start, and this was very encouraging - but I do look forward to breaking this mental blook in our community. Of only succeeding by ourselves, or at most for our own families. Not coming together and succeeding. My experience is we have yet to go very far.... and sometimes, these gatherings put us in a false state of feeling like we have a "community." Doing things individually, and then applauding en-masse, isn't real "community" - but it's a start, and I hope leads to real "hamkari" for the future. 


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