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"The Literary Biography of Forugh Farrokhzad with Unpublished Letters" a talk and book-signing by Dr. Farzaneh Milani (University of Virginia)

Please join us on Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 6-8 pm in UC Irvine's Humanities Gateway (HG) 1010 for a talk and book-signing of Dr. Farzaneh Milani's latest book titled "The Literary Biography of Forugh Farrokhzad with Unpublished Letters".

Farzaneh Milani is Raymond J. Nelson Professor of Iranian and Gender Studies at the University of Virginia. Former Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures and former Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Virginia, Milani has published several books, most recently The Literary Biography of Forugh Farrokhzad with Unpublished Letters (in Persian) and Captive: A Translation of Forugh Farrokhzad’s Asir; as well as over one hundred articles, op-eds, epilogues, forewords, and afterwords in both Persian and English. She has served as the guest editor for special issues of Nimeye-Digar, IranNameh and Iranian Studies. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Ms. Magazine, Reader's Digest, USA Today, among others, and contributed to National Public Radio's All Things Considered. She has presented 250 lectures nationally and internationally. A past president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women's Studies in America and a Carnegie Fellow, Milani was the recipient of the All University Teaching Award as well as the Zintl Leadership Award (2015).

There will be a book-signing after the talk. Cash only. The book is in Persian. The lecture is in English.

This talk is presented by UCI's Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture.