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The idea of homeland in modern Persian poetry: Sheida Mohamadi's lecture

Join us for a lecture by Sheida Mohamadi, Jordan Center's Poet in Residence 2015-2016, about the idea of homeland in modern Persian poetry.

Sheida Mohamadi, poet, fiction writer and journalist, was born in Tehran, Iran. Sheida Mohamadi will be first Poet in Residence at the Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine for the 2015-2016 academic year. She was a Poet in Residence at University of Maryland in 2010. Sheida has been a member of Pen Center USA since 2010. She published four books. Her first book, a work of lyrical prose titled Mahtab Delash ra Goshud, Banu! (The Moonlight Opened its Heart, Lady!), came out in 2001 and her second, a novel titled Afsaneh-ye Baba Leila (The Legend of Baba Leila) was published in 2005. Her third book, Aks-e Fowri-ye Eshqbazi (The Snapshot of Lovemaking) is a collection of poems published in 2007. Sheida’s next collection of poems, "Yavashhaye Ghermez" ("Crimson Whispers") is published in 2015. Her poems have been translated into different languages, including English, French, Arabic, Czech, Germany, Turkish, Kurdish and Swedish.

Sheida Mohamadi was recognized as one of the most notable contemporary Persian writers of 2010 by the Encyclopedia Britannica (Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year 2010, page 268). She also edited and wrote for the women’s page (Safheh-ye Zanan) of Iran newspaper in 2002-2003 and at Farhangestan-e Honar Monthly Review in 2003, both in Tehran, Iran.

A reception will follow the event.

*** This lecture is in Persian ***