Persian Language Program News

By Porochista Khakpour 
 
IN the days leading up to Barbie’s cougariffic 50th birthday most everyone has had a story to tell. Mine begins in 1958 in one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities, Hamedan, Iran, and it begins with my mother, then just a small girl, and Barbie’s international predecessor and antithesis: the porcelain baby [...]

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Persian Poetry and Calligraphy
Presented By: Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Director of The Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute of Persian Studies
Persian poetry, which has developed over 1400 years, is beloved and known by modern readers for the influence and achievements of poets like Sa’di, Hafiz, Rumi and Omar Khayyam. The Persian language, which uses the Arabic writing [...]

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Enjoy the Iranian Film Festival at the Smithonian.  Films are shown at the Freer and Sackler Galleries every Friday and Sunday.  Click the link below for a complete schecule:
http://www.asia.si.edu/events/films.asp

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The National Security Education Program awards David L. Boren Scholarships for undergraduates and Fellowships for graduate students to approximately 200 U.S. students.  As you may know, the Boren Awards provide funding to American students who are pursuing international and language study in world regions critical to U.S. interests (including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, [...]

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The United States Department of State and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) are pleased to announce the availability of overseas scholarships for intensive summer language institutes in eleven critical need foreign languages including PERSIAN for summer 2009.
Countries may include: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Russia, South Korea, Tajikistan, Tunisia, [...]

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Jake Benson, junior, Persian Studies student, is the recipient of the 2008 Hossein Amirsaleh Student Award in Persian Studies. The award, established in 2006 at the University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities, is in the name of a pioneer Iranian-American philanthropist and consists of a citation and a monetary prize, and is given [...]

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