Professor Hakkak is a professor and founding director of the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Center for Persian Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Maryland. In this clip he talks about Iranian studies in the U.S. and how it has changed over the past decade, with so many young people and especially women entering the field, as could be seen at the last Iranian Studies Conference in Los Angeles in late May 2010. Video chronicle of the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS):
Recently by Ghormeh Sabzi | Comments | Date |
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Majid Tavakoli: Prisoner of the day | 5 | Dec 02, 2012 |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Prisoner of the day | 2 | Dec 01, 2012 |
Abdollah Momeni: Prisoner of the day | 2 | Nov 30, 2012 |
Person | About | Day |
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نسرین ستوده: زندانی روز | Dec 04 | |
Saeed Malekpour: Prisoner of the day | Lawyer says death sentence suspended | Dec 03 |
Majid Tavakoli: Prisoner of the day | Iterview with mother | Dec 02 |
احسان نراقی: جامعه شناس و نویسنده ۱۳۰۵-۱۳۹۱ | Dec 02 | |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Prisoner of the day | 46 days on hunger strike | Dec 01 |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Graffiti | In Barcelona | Nov 30 |
گوهر عشقی: مادر ستار بهشتی | Nov 30 | |
Abdollah Momeni: Prisoner of the day | Activist denied leave and family visits for 1.5 years | Nov 30 |
محمد کلالی: یکی از حمله کنندگان به سفارت ایران در برلین | Nov 29 | |
Habibollah Golparipour: Prisoner of the day | Kurdish Activist on Death Row | Nov 28 |
This video is
by ConnieBobroff on Wed Aug 11, 2010 05:13 AM PDTThis video is most disturbing.
The hand of the IRI and the foreign language
by Farah Rusta on Wed Aug 11, 2010 02:50 AM PDTIn the past, I used to attend events in celebration of French and German cultures in an English speaking country and do you know what the official languages of these events were? French and German, respectively. Now why in a gathering to celebrate one of the world's oldest cultures and languages, Persian, must be English, speaks volumes of the collective sense inferiority the organizers and participants must have felt about their own self. Was this event for the consumption of the English speaking commoners? Were the participants poor in their command of Persian? It is beyond reason.
And now over to my main point. The presence of the hand of the IRI in this event. I don't have time to go through details but guess how many of the academics shown in this clip have been, or still are, recipients of funds, bursaries, grants, fellowships, etc. from the IRI and the IRI-linked institutions? The answer: ALL of them. Obviously. absence of any qualms about the background of their benefactors is a pre-requisite of being an Iranologist.
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Does anybody know how many
by benross on Tue Aug 10, 2010 05:18 PM PDTDoes anybody know how many Persian Studies Graduates Mr. Hakkak has ever produced in U.S?
Interesting
by divaneh on Tue Aug 10, 2010 03:16 PM PDTDid not know about ISIS and its good work. Thanks for posting.
Well done!
by Marjaneh on Wed Aug 11, 2010 02:33 AM PDTAnd if it weren't for all the peech peechy mehmouni, I'd love to do Iranian Studies too.
Mind you, a study into the Iranian Mrs Bucket (Keeping Up Appearances), Bouquet, Bouquet! - might be quite interesting
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