Award-winning author and journalist Roya Hakakian will speak at the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ about her experience as a Persian teenager growing up in revolutionary Iran.
Hakakian will give a presentation titled βAn Insider’s Guide to Iran’s Turmoilβ at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, in the Cape Florida Ballroom of the Student Union. The event, organized by the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ Global Perspectives Office, is part of two 2011-2012 themes, βPeople Power, Politics and Global Changeβ and βCovering Crises from the Frontlines.β It is free and open to the public.
Hakakian recently authored the book βThe Assassins of the Turquoise Palaceβ about Tehranβs terror campaign against exiled Iranians, which earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction. She also has authored two collections of Persian poetry.
Her memoir, βJourney from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran,β was named one of Publishers Weeklyβs Best Books of 2004 and Elle magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book.
A fellow at Yale Universityβs Whitney Humanities Center, Hakakian serves on the board of Refugees International and is a founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center.
Her reporting has been featured on television programs such as CBSβs β60 Minutesβ and on ABC documentary specials with the late Peter Jennings. Hakakianβs opinions and essays have appeared in Time magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and NPR, among others. She is a blogger for World Affairs, for which she also serves as a member of the editorial board.
In addition to the Global Perspectives Office, sponsors and partners of Hakakianβs presentation include the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ Global Peace and Security Studies Program, The Sibille H. Pritchard Global Peace Fellowship Program, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, the Orlando Area Committee on Foreign Relations, LarsonAllen LLP, the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ Al Ghazali Islamic Studies Program, the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ Dipomacy Program, the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ Terrorism Studies Program, the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ Human Trafficking Awareness Program, the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ Diplomacy Program, the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ Middle Eastern Studies Program, the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ Political Science Department, the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ International Services Center, the ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ Book Festival 2012 in association with the Morgridge International Reading Center, ΒιΆΉΣ³»΄«Γ½ LIFE and the Global Connections Foundation.
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