Shabahang Young Iranian Chapter is presenting this program and it will be in English.
This event is co-sponsored by University of Pennsylvania’s Middle East Center
Open to all interested individuals-- Refreshments will be served
Program:
Music: Piano by Kurosh Darvish , Folklore Music of Iran
Lecture: Uneasy Ties, 60 Years of US-IRAN Relations, 1949-2009
Speaker: Dr. Thomas M. Ricks
Independent Social and Cultural Middle East Historian
Former Lecturer, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Thomas M. Ricks is an independent scholar of the social and
cultural history of Iran, the Persian Gulf and Palestine. After two
years in Iran as a Peace Corps Volunteer (in Mashhad and
Mahabad), he completed both a MA degree in Persian Language
and Literature and a Ph.D. in Middle East History with a minor
in Persian Studies at Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana)
before spending the next 30 years (1975-2005) teaching and
researching at Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota) and the
universities of Georgetown (Washington DC), Bir Zeit University
(Ramallah, occupied Palestine), Villanova University (Villanova, PA), and
the University of Pennsylvania (Phila. PA).
He has completed works on Iranian literature and society
(Literature of Contemporary Iran and Critical Perspectives on
Modern Persian Literature), co-authored a book on The Oral
History of the Palestinian Intifada (in Arabic) and edited the life,
times, and diaries of Khalil Totah: A Palestinian Educator and
Quaker. He is presently completing the revision of his Ph.D. thesis
on 18th Century Politics and Trade in Southern Iran and the Persian
Gulf, and intends to complete two more works on Iran and the
Indian Ocean: Sea Captains, Maritime Merchants and Diaspora
Communities Between Iran, Africa and India, and on Howard C.
Baskerville: Iran’s American Hero.
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