Young Iranian Chapter at Shabahang Presents June 2009 Meeting:
"BRIDGING CULTURES"
Marguerite Del Giudice, Author
ANCIENT IRAN: Inside a Nation's Persian Soul
National Geographic – August 2009
Film Screening (Documentary)
BAM 6.6: Humanity Has No Borders
Directed by: Jahangir Golestan Parast
Mrs. Gohar Kheirandish, award wining Iranian actress, with vast cinema and theatre experience will attend Shabahang June's meeting.
Light Refreshments will be served
co-sponsored by University of Pennsylvania’s Middle East Center
Author's Bio:
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Marguerite Del Giudice has been a national-award-winning
newspaperwoman, freelance magazine writer, editor, life coach, and
college teacher of narrative nonfiction writing. Her work has included
cover stories for The New York Times Magazine, Tina Brown's Talk, and,
most recently, her story about Persian identity for National
Geographic.
Previously, as a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Boston
Globe, she wrote on topics ranging from the Mafia to UFOs, sports,
politics, medicine, ordinary family life, small-town culture, and
dispatches from Central America. At the Globe, she contributed articles
to the paper's Pulitzer-Prize-winning submission package for its coverage
of school desegregation and also worked as a staff writer for the Sunday
magazine and Washington, D.C.-based feature writer. At the Inquirer, her
year-long study of a typical American family during a presidential
campaign received a Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence in Writing.
She also practices and teaches aikido, the Japanese martial art known as
“The Way of Peace,” in which she holds the rank of nidan, or seconddegree
black belt.
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