Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture Hosts a Day-Long Workshop to Inaugurate ASSOCIATION for IRANIAN-AMERICAN WRITERS (AIAW)
Discussions and Moderation:
Nasrin Rahimieh, Persis Karim, Gaby Schwab, Gina Nahai, Parissa Ebrahimzadeh, Haleh Hatami, Dina al-Kassim, Porochista Khakpour, Anita Amirrezvani, Majid Amini, Annette Schlichter, Sepideh Saremi, Jahanshah Javid, Susan Jarratt,
Majid Naficy, Esther Kamkar, Sholeh Wolpé, Amy DePaul, Jasmin Darznik, Sharon May, David Goldberg, Ari Siletz, Zara Houshmand
Majid Amini: Author of The Greatest Meeting, Escape From Paradise, The Howling Leopard, Dreams of a Native Son, Sunset Drifters, Children of a Lesser Nation, and Bibi’s Wisdom, and screenplays for films: Uncommon Friends, The Afghan, Concealed Soul, The Greatest Meeting, Joseph’s Sorrow, and Broken Pillars.
Anita Amirrezvani: The Blood of Flowers.
Jasmin Darznik: The Good Daughter, her memoir of Iran.
Parissa Ebrahimzadeh: focused both her undergraduate and graduate theses on the Iranian Diaspora and its influence on modern Iranian literature. She is currently at work on a novel.
Haleh Hatami: Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: New Writing from Women in the Iranian Diaspora, translations of Yadollah Royai
Zara Houshmand: A Mirror Garden, a memoir co-authored with Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian.
Jahanshah Javid: Founder of iranian.com, the largest and most-viewed English-language Iranian online forum for amateur and professional writers and artists.
Esther Kamkar: Let Me Tell you Were I have Been, Hummingbird Conditions.
Persis M. Karim: Editor and contributing poet of Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora.
Porochista Khakpour: Sons and Other Flammable Objects.
Shireen May: A Stranger Among Us: Tales of Cross-Cultural Collisions and Connections. She co-edited In the Shadow of Angkor: Contemporary Writing from Cambodia.
Majid Naficy: two collections of poetry, Muddy Shoes (Beyond Baroque Books) and Father and Son (Red Hen Press).
Gina Nahai: Author of four best-selling novels, and a professor of creative writing at USC's Master of Professional Writing Program.
Sepideh Saremi: After a stint at Bon Appetit magazine and then working in online advertising, Sepideh started ParsArts.com, a not-for-profit culture website.
Ari Siletz (b. 1953) is an Iranian born short-story writer: The Mullah With No Legs.
Sholeh Wolpé: Author of Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad, Rooftops of Tehran, The Scar Saloon, Shame (a play in three acts) and a poetry/music CD (Refuge Studios).
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