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Book Reading in DC: The Good Daughter

AIAW — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:59:04 +0000

"The chance find of an old photo of her mother’s wedding to a man she’d never seen before led Darznik, a professor of English at Washington and Lee, to discover startling new facts about her family history. Her memoir chronicles three generations of Iranian women and their legacy of secrets, losses, and the search for freedom."

Tomorrow, February 6, 2011, at 1:00 p.m., AIAW member Jasmin Darznik will present her book, The Good Daughter, at a reading at:

Writing About You: In Solidarity with Journalists

AIAW — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:49:25 +0000

Writing About You
By Farnaz Fatemi

AIAW reading in support of Iranian journalists

AIAW — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:04:59 +0000

On Sunday, March 7, 2010, the Association of Iranian American Writers will host a literary reading and musical performance in honor of Norouz, the Iranian New Year, and in recognition of the powerful role of writers, artists and journalists in Iran’s “Green Movement.” Donations from this event will be made to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international organization that has been working since the June 2009 Iranian elections to free jailed journalists and journalists who have had to flee Iran to avoid persecution.

Readings with Association of Iranian American Writers

AIAW — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:54:32 +0000

Readings with Association of Iranian American Writers
With a Musical Performance by Hossein Massoudi and Ramin Zoufonoun

Inspired by artwork from the One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran exhibit, Bay Area Iranian American writers will read recent and new works of poetry and prose. Mojdeh Marashi, Esther Kamkar, Farnaz Fatemi, Parissa Ebrahimzadeh, Siamak Vossoughi, Nazy Kaviani, and Ari Siletz will read in the gallery at Intersection for the Arts.

San Francisco iranian.com'ers, please come

AIAW — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:40:40 +0000

Raising Our Voices for Iran

AIAW — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:55:25 +0000

The Association of Iranian American Writers and Intersection for the Arts present an afternoon of reading and music for the pepole of Iran. Journalist Reese Ehrlich will provide an election report.