The recording of the event is now made available:
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The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC\, the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events ana lyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature i n Winter and Spring 2022. The first session of th e Winter and Spring 2022 series concerns the war and migration and the life -world of the migrant in the works of Rira Abbasi. Some of her best works a re going to be reviewed and critically analyzed by a panel of specialists i ncluding writers\, poets\, and publishers.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.
Date & Time
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Saturday\, January 29\, 2022
10:00am – 12:00pm (PST)Location: online via Zoom
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
۱. زیست گاه جنگ، انسان مهاجر: داستانخوانی با ریرا عباسی
زمان: شنبه ۲۹ ژانویه ۲۰۲۲ ساعت ۱۰ صبح به وقت ونکوور- ۱۰ شب به وقت تهران
در ادامه بررسی ادبیات معاصر و هستی ان سان مهاجر میزبان ریرا عباسی خواهیم بود و منتخبی از مجموعه داستانهای «بیدا ر شو ماه دولت» و «سیپریِ چهارشنبهها» و رمان اخیرش «تن دادگی» را با حضور پ نلی تخصصی از نویسندگان و ناشران بررسی خواهیم کرد.
پنلیست های جلسه:
فریبا صدیقیم
یاسین نگاه
علیرضا آبیزمهری رحمانی
عباس شکری
لطفا برای ثبت نام فرم زیر را پر کنید
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Rira Abbasi was born in Khorramabad\, Iran. Acclaimed as Iran's Lady Poet Laurea te and the winner of the Parvin Etesami Poetry Award in 2005\, Rira is also a member of Iran's Writers Association and the founder and director of the biennial International Peace Poetry festival since 2007. Black Elf of Wedn esdays (2000)\, No More Guns for this Lor Woman (2001)\, and the bold colle ction of love poems ''Who Loves You More Discreetly?'' (2002) are among her works. Rira has edited and introduced the first collection of Iranian Peac e Poetry (an anthology) in 2002. In 2008\, she founded the R.B.H\, an estab lishment in line with the International Peace Poetry Festival. A brainchild of Rira Abbasi and supported solely by individual donations and sponsorshi p of non-governmental organizations\, the charter of the Peace Poetry Festi val states that "Poetry for peace is affiliated to humanity\, regardless of race\, religion\, sex and geography". The world's first statue\, represen ting "The Poetry of Peace" was made by a team supervised by Rira's husband\ , Ali Khorram.
Many of her reviews and literary criticism s have been published in literary journals. Also\, many of her poems have b een translated into several languages such as Italian\, English\, German\, Indian\, Japanese\, Spanish\, Chinese\, Romanian\, Arabic\, Turkish and etc . Rira has been invited to many authoritative international poetry festival s so far and has attended in some of them. She has edited and translated "L ocal Poetry" (Tehran\, 2005) which is published at Studies and Research Cen ter and Cultural Anthropology. "Inversion" (Tehran\, 2008) and "Tin Frog" ( Tehran\, 2010) are two recent novels by Rira which are banned to publish by the government. Rira has also collected the anthology of World's Peace Poe try which is a multilingual selection of poems from the first and the secon d International Peace Poetry Festival and is ready to print.
In 2011\, Rira received a grant from Prince Claus Fund institute to tak e part in 21 Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín\, Colombia. In Ap ril 2012 a short film was made based on of her longer poems called "MYSTERI OUS NUCLEUSES" In 2014\, Rira’s efforts led to the publication of Iran’s fi rst multilingual anthology of poetry "Peace\, the Poetr y of Life " (contemporary poets of the world). Her works include Valentine\, the White Sheep (April 2014). In 2015\, Rira’s efforts led to the publication of "Inversion" a novel entitled (Naakoja Publicatio ns\, Paris). A collection of stories "Bear and feve r Marquez "was published in 2020. Maryam Ala Amjadi’s translations of Rira Abbasi’s poetry chapbook "I Gave Birth in War" received Honorable Mention a nd will be published by QuillsEdge Press\, US. In 2021\, Rira’s efforts led to the publication of "Tandadegi" a novel (Ikhanum Public ation\, Kabul Afghanistan). Her latest work is a collection of stori es entitled "Wake up Mah Dolat''\, which was published in 2021(Aftab Public ation\, Oslo Norway).