"Sussan Deyhim creates thrilling music that sounds in the ear long after you've
left the show." - The New York Times

(Le) Poisson Rouge in association with Persian Arts Festival is pleased to
present Sussan Deyhim in New York for one night only to support the human and
democratic rights of the Iranian People and to protest against Ahmadinejad on US
soil and his appearance at the UN on September 23rd and 24th. Sussan along with
her collaborators Richard Horowitz, Karsh Kale, Alan Kushan, DJ Payam, Hernan
Romero and very special guest speakers speaker Eve Ensler and others will tell
it like it is.

Venue: (Le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street NYC
Date/Time: Thursday September 24th 2009, 11pm

BUY TIX NOW
http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/595

NEW YORK CITY
Wednesday, September 30, 7:00- 9:00 PM.
Reading, Q&A, Book signing
Nahid Rachlin from her memoir, PERSIAN GIRLS
Shanthi Sekaran from her novel, PRAYER ROOM
The International Center in New York
50 West 23rd Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
7th Floor, New York, NY 10010
Phone: 212 255-9555
free and open to the public.

Nahid Rachlin: website: 1. http://www.nahidrachlin.com
is the author of the memoir Persian Girls as well as the novels Jumping Over
Fire and The Foreigner. Born in Iran, she came to the United States to attend
college and stayed. Persian Girls tells the story of an Iranian girl growing up
in a culture where, despite the Westernizing reforms of the Shah, women had
little power or autonomy.

website: http://www.nahidrachlin.com
Nahid Rachlin
Apt. 43D
300 East 93rd St.
New York, NY 10128
Phone & Fax: 212-996-3478

http://strike4iran.com/


The Campaign against "Crimes Against Humanity" in Iran presents:
September 25th, 2009

Town Hall Meeting on Human Rights in Iran



Time: Saturday, September  26th  2009 , 9:00 am – 4 pm.

Place: South Hall Riverside Church (490 Riverside Drive, New York, near the 116
Street exit on the 1, 9 trains)

Program:

Theoretical Reflections:

  1. Abdolali Bazargan, The Basis of Governmental
Legitimacy; 2. Shahrnoush Parsipour, A Critique of the Dual Structure of
Iranian Thought; 3. Farzin Vahdat, The Social Structure of Iran and
Democratic Demands; 4. Mohammad Reza Nikfar, The Importance of Legal
Representations Against Injustice



Political Development:

  1. Reza Baraheni, How Can We Build Democracy?; 2.
Ahmad Sadri, Reflections on the Justification of Violence; 3. Ebrahim
Soltani, A Wise Transition to Democracy; 4.  Arash Naraghi, Characteristics
of Outlawed States in the International Community



The Dangers that Lie Ahead:

1. Hamid Dabashi, Conflict and Interaction
between the Movement for Civil Rights in Iran and Regional Politics; 2.
Majid Mohammadi, Forthcoming Challenges for the Green Movement; 3. Mansour
Farhang, The Iranian, American and Israeli Triangle; 4. Hossein Kamali,
Looking to the East and Winking at the West.



Likely Scenarios:

  1. Abdolali Rezaei, The Complexity of the Current
Situation; 2. Reza Fani-Yazdi, Who is Hegemonic? 3. Ali Mirsepassi, What Are
the Iranian People Aspiring Toward? 4. Ata Hoodshatian,The Question of the
Movement's Leadership.



Akbar Ganji: Prospects for the Future



Musical Performance by Faramarz Aslani, Arash Shojani, Sahar Deghan, Rana
Farhan Group

MEHR HUMANITARIAN SOCIETY PROUDLY PRESENTS
www.MehrHumanitarianSociety.com (for tickets)

Shams Ensemble

SATURDAY October 3, 2009

8:00 TO 10:30 PM

Lincoln Center

Rose Hall

Broadway at 60th Street , New York , NY 10027

Tel. 212 721 6500

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnz-AwJEp2E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YGvJ2RVs7c

Iran: Songs of Hope
Kayhan Kalhor

Saturday, October 03, 2009  8:00PM
Peter Norton Symphony Space
Broadway at 95th St
New York
BUY TIX HERE http://www.worldmusicinstitute.org/event.php?id=982

Presented in association with Persian Arts Festival

Iran's master musician/composer Kayhan Kalhor has been instrumental in
popularizing Persian music in the West through his solo concerts and work with
Masters of Persian Music, Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, the Ghazal Ensemble, and
Brooklyn Rider.  In this program, he performs new improvisations for kamancheh
(spike fiddle) and setar, a long-necked fretted lute that he will play solo in
New York for the first time. His powerful and soulful songs, which are inspired
by the current situation in Iran, are dedicated to the people of Iran.
Accompaniment by Behrouz Jamali on tombak (drum).

http://www.kayhankalhor.org

Persian Arts Festival (PAF) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to
showcasing the magnificence and diversity of Persian art and culture through its
voices, artists and visionaries. PAF brings local and global communities
together to support these artists and explore one of the world's most ancient
and rich civilizations.  Persian Arts Festival is a sponsored project of the New
York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).
http://www.persianartsfestival.org

This program is part of Daniel Pearl World Music Days, an annual global event
dedicated to the ideals of tolerance, friendship and a shared humanity.
www.danielpearl.org

Tickets $30
WMI Friends $25
Students $18

FIOC, inc. is celebrating Mehregan with traditional Iranian music!

  Please join us!



Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009

Time: 5:00 to 8 PM

Location:       Yale New Haven University � Hope Building

                         Cedar Street., New Haven , CT 06







Classical Persian Music with Afshin Goodarzi and Katayoun Kamyab



Refreshments will be served.



Tickets are the same price for adults and children.



Members: free                         Non Members: $10



Tickets can be purchased at the door. We hope to see you there!

Iranian American Cultural Society of Maryland

Mehregan
The Autumn Festival

Friday October 16, 2009

8:00 PM till Midnight

Dinner, Dance, and DJ Music

Oregon Ridge Park

The first 200 people will be admitted at the door

You can reserve your seats in advance by mailing your checks to:
IACS, P.O. Box 9844, Towson, MD 21284-9844

New Membership Policy
Memberships will be effective at the same day for one year from the date of paying the fee
The annual fees have been reduced as folows

Family: $60
Single: $30
Student: $15

For more information, please visit:

http://www.iacs-md.org

Persian Arts Festival's Shab-e She'r, Wed. Oct. 14th, feat. Sassan Tabatabai

PAF's next Shab-e She'r series will feature poet and translator Sassan
Tabatabai. Born in Tehran, Iran in 1967 and having lived in the United States
since 1980, Sassan's work has appeared in a number of publications including
Levathan Quarterly, Seneca Review, Literary Imagination, Pusteblume: Journal of
Translation and The Christian Science Monitor. He is the author of Father of
Songs: Rudaki and his Poetry (Rozenberg/Purdue UP, 2008) and the forthcoming
Uzunburun: Poems (Pen and Anvil Press, 2009). He is also Poetry Editor of The
Republic of Letters. Tabatabai holds a Ph.D. in Persian Literature from Boston
University where he currently teaches Persian and the Humanities.

OCTOBER 14, 6-7:30pm
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012 in Manhattan.
Nearest subway is the 2nd Avenue F train.

An open mic will follow the reading, inviting everyone to read either his or her
own poetry or works by other poets, in Persian or English, bearing some
connection to Iran or Iranian/Persian culture.

This performance will be streamed LIVE at www.bowerypoetry.com!

Persian Arts Festival (PAF) has successfully revived Shab-e She'r, A Night of
(Persian) Poetry, at the Bowery Poetry Club (BPC) but with a modern, new
generational spin. The program has made its comeback and expanded what tends to
be a very classical Persian tradition to feature modern works of literature,
ranging from fictional novels to memoirs. Entering into its third season, PAF
and BPC continue to host readings of well-established and emerging authors who
are of Persian descent or specialize in Persian literature. Readers have
included Nahid Rachlin, Manijeh Nasrabadi and Joe Martin to name a few.

Hafez Nazeri: The New Face of Iran Premieres "Rumi Symphony Project: Cycle One"

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 8:00PM

An East/West musical dialogue featuring Hafez Nazeri and his legendary father,
Shahram Nazeri, with an international all-star ensemble at Carnegie Hall.

The Nazeri Music Foundation debuts the world premiere of the "Rumi Symphony
Project: Cycle One" this fall. The performance entitled "Iranian Sounds of
Peace" will be presented by NMF in association with Absolutely Live
Entertainment, Asia Society and Persian Arts Festival at Carnegie Hall on
Saturday, November 14 at 8:00 pm. "Iranian Sounds of Peace" is the first Iranian
headlining event at this revered venue.

The works to be performed are composed by 29-year-old Hafez Nazeri, Iran's most
influential young composer and mark a new chapter in integrating Middle Eastern
and Western traditions through the music of both cultures. Nazeri describes the
concept and philosophy behind this opus as "a musical discourse to promote world
peace."

Hafez explains that his goal is to be the new face of Iran in the west and the
voice of a new and cosmopolitan generation. His hope is to portray the true
essence of Iran through his country's musical culture. "At a time when all that
we hear about Iran is filtered through headlines of intolerance, chaos, and
violence, it is important to portray a 7,000 year cultural history with its
deeply poetic and artistic mystical tradition, explains Nazeri.

Together with his internationally acclaimed father, Shahram Nazeri – dubbed the
"Iranian Pavarotti" and the first to set Rumi's poetry to music over 40 years
ago – the Nazeri's will continue their legacy of expanding the definition of
Persian music with the "Rumi Symphony Project: Cycle One."

Musicians joining Hafez Nazeri ("Hafez" setar/vocals) and Shahram Nazeri
(vocals) are: Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Paul
Neubauer, viola; Ida Kavafian, viola and Fred Sherry, cello; in addition to Matt
Haimovitz, cello; Tim Cobb, double bass; and Hussein Zahawy, percussion.

Nazeri's music captures and preserves the essence and elemental structures of
Persian music, while embracing new ideas developed out of Western Classical
music such as orchestration, harmony, rhythmic patterns and melodic forms. The
music's broad accessibility opens the cultural dialogue to new listeners
worldwide, and matches the transcendent tone of Rumi's Sufi poetry, transposed
into the context of a new age.

Not only is Hafez Nazeri the composer of the work but he will also sing and play
the new instrument he has created based on the traditional setar. The instrument
is named "Hafez," referring to the composer and his namesake, the great 13th
century mystic poet. The "Hafez" extends the range of the setar by incorporating
two additional low strings to craft greater melodic and harmonic range – making
it the first new Iranian instrument developed in modern times.

Tickets for Carnegie Hall at $30, $45, $60, $90, $140, $180 and $350, are on
sale Tuesday, July 14 at carnegiehall.org, by calling Carnegie Charge at
212-247-7800 or at the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue,
or online by clicking here.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 AT 8:00 PM
TIX AVAILABLE AT CARNEGIE HALL – 212-247-7800; www.carnegiehall.org

MIT Persian Movie Night Screens:

Two Documentaries About "Ahmad Mahmoud" and "Ahmad Shamlou"



Schedule
           5-6pm          Ahmad Mahmoud: A Noble Novelist
           6-6:15pm       Intermission - Refreshments Served
           6:15-7:15pm    Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty

***In Farsi with English Subtitles.

When: Sunday, Oct. 18th, 5-7:30pm
Where: MIT Building 4, Room 231 (4-231)
Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/



About the documentaries:

**Ahmad Mahmoud: A Nobel Novelist

Director: Bahman Maghsoudlou / 2004

A portrait of the prominent Iranian novelist, whose work dealt with the
troubled nature of life within his native country, often due to political
upheaval.

More Info:
http://ifvc.com/ahmad-mahmoud.htm



**Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty
Director: Moslem Mansouri / 1999

A documentary about the most important modern Iranian poet and intellectual
icon.

More Info:
http://ifvc.com/ahmad-shamlou.htm


Production: International Film and Video Center (ifvc)
With special thank to Bahman Maghsoudlou, Founder and President of International
Film & Video Center (IFVC)

Contact Info:
Anahita Maghami
azad@...


                          Important Notice!
WE START OUR EVENTS PROMPTLY AT 5PM! To get the most out of our events,
please make your best effort to arrive on time!

===================================================================
                            ADMINISTRIVIA
MIT Persian Movie Night Committee has chosen the day/time of its movie
screening
based on the result of a polling from the Persian community in the area.

We encourage your participation/help for making our efforts more fruitful
by:

1. Volunteering yourself or nominating other knowledgeable people to provide
introduction and/or commentary in our events before/after the movie
screening.

2. If you have any movies that we can borrow from you, please bring it to
our movie screening events. (We will return the movie to you, in its
initial condition, immediately after showing it. We will also make our most
effort to benefit the movie producers.)

3. Sending us the list of movies which you recommend for our screening.
    (It would be great if you can tell us how/where to get them.)

4. Giving/pointing us to the interesting and short video clips (up to
15-min)
which we can use as a filler at the beginning, middle or end of our
programs.

5. Sending your email to our coordinator:
                         AZAD@...
so we can add it to our "Movie Night" mailing list and inform you about our
events in a timely manner.

Please feel free to provide us with any other comments and suggestions.

Many thanks in advance for your participation and help.

                            Anahita,
                  MIT Persian Movie Night Coordinator

Iranian American Cultural Society of Maryland

Mehregan
The Autumn Festival

Friday October 16, 2009

8:00 PM till Midnight

Dinner, Dance, and DJ Music

Oregon Ridge Park

The first 200 people will be admitted at the door

You can reserve your seats in advance by mailing your checks to:
IACS, P.O. Box 9844, Towson, MD 21284-9844

New Membership Policy
Memberships will be effective at the same day for one year from the date of paying the fee
The annual fees have been reduced as folows

Family: $60
Single: $30
Student: $15

For more information, please visit:

http://www.iacs-md.org

HALLOWEEN OF 2009
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____________PERSIAN COSTUME PARTY_________




IN THE HEART OF
___S O H O___

@
"F R . O G"
(frence . origine)
71 SPRING STREET (between lafayette &broadway) NYC-10012


FREE VODKA SHOTS


$500 CASH PRIZE!
FOR THE BEST COSTUME!

MUSIC BY:

PERSIANGUESTLIST RESIDENT DJS

DJ BAR O BAX FROM WASHINGTON DC
______________________________________________________________

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This event is sponsored by the BeFilm festival.

PROGRAM

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"Photo" An Animation by Maryam Kalizade
"Generation Tehran" a documentary b...y Sara Bavar
"Cirque de Nuit" a short film by Majeed Beenteha
"Reflections" Photography series by Majeed B-N-Te-Ha

Admission: Free  & Complimentary Cheese & Wine

 Location & Time:

Gershwin Hotel 7 East 27th Street  Nov 4th 7:00 PM � 9:00 PM

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The Fourth Annual Persian Cultural Foundation Awards Ceremony

Rutgers-Newark
       &
         Persian Cultural Foundation
                 AWARDS CEREMONY

              Wednesday, November 4, 2009
              2:30 PM- 4:00 PM
               Reception will follow
            (Persian food will be served)
           Persian Musical Performances
           232 Paul Robeson Campus Center
                 350 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
             Newark, NJ 07102-1898


           RSVP by October 26, 2009
           varzegar@...

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______THE 4th OFFICIAL TRI STATES_______
H A L L O W E E N
____________PERSIAN COSTUME PARTY_________


@
"FaluckA"
(Lounge)
126 BLEEKER STREET (between Thompson Sullivan) NYC-10012


FREE VODKA SHOTS


$500 CASH PRIZE!
FOR THE BEST COSTUME!

MUSIC BY:

PERSIANGUESTLIST RESIDENT DJS

DJ BAR O BAX FROM WASHINGTONDC
______________________________________________________________

REDUCE ADMISSION ON GUESTLIST WITH COSTUME ONLY

doors open @9:30 PM

21 AND OVER/ ID A MUST


EARLYARRIVALS STRONGLY SUGGESTED

FOR MORE INFO/ BOTTLE SERVICE &VIP
VISIT:
PERSIANGUESTLIST.COM
or call
917 673 1579

Nahid Rachlin: Discussion and Reading from PERSIAN GIRLS,
Thursday, November 12, 4:15 PM
Wellesley College
106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Newhouse Center for the Humanities
Phone: 781-283-1000

Excerpts from Reviews of PERSIAN GIRLS:
NPR: The World
Selected by Christopher Merrill, the Director of Iowa International Writing
Program as one of the best four books of 2006. "If you want to know what it was
like to grow up in Iran this is the book to read. Rachlin, the author of five
previous works of fiction, including the much acclaimed Foreigner, begins her
story at the age of nine, when she was taken away from the only mother she had
ever known—her aunt, as it happens—and returned to a family in which the
prospects of her becoming a writer were, at best, dim. But her portrait of the
artist in an Islamic country on the verge of dramatic change is filled with
light."

Time:
“Through the touching, tragic story of two sisters, Persian Girls unfolds the
entire drama of modern Iran. It’s a beautiful, harrowing memoir of the cruelty
of men toward women, and it paints the exotic scents and traditions of Tehran
with the delicacy of a great novel. If you want to understand Iran, read Nahid
Rachlin.”—Matt Beynon Rees