Friday, July 4, 2008 
Thanks to all the sponsors, and final thoughts…
We hope you found the weekend informative and enjoyable, and thank you all for engaging with us and participating.
We’ve been invigorated by this project and your valuable contributions have been very invigorating. We hope you feel this energy and that you’ll translate this energy into action. We […]
This panel (the last one) is being moderated by Nooshin Hosseini
Kamiar Alaei, Harvard School of Public Health
Reverse Brain Drain
How can we clot Iran’s hemorrhaging brain drain? There are a lot of reports about the problem, but what’s the solution? There are three arguments: it’s impossible, it’s very hard, it needs a lot of resources/has […]
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This panel is about Iranians who grew up outside Iran but returned for their work or art.
Ali Ghezelbash, Strategic and Political Advisor, Norsk Hydro
Having the Best of Both Worlds—how returning home changed my perspective
Having spent the past two days here, I’ve never been as proud to be an Iranian. Since leaving Iran, I’d had […]
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Roya Bahrami is performing santur now… some of her opening remarks: I was 16 when I came here, and the first time I heard classical Persian music I was here already. I felt a pang in my heart… this music is really very deeply in me. Then I started to study, and started realizing my […]
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Narges Bajoghli of IAAB is moderating this forum: The goal of this forum is to facilitate conversation between organizations represented and to engage the community in a safe and open space. We felt we couldn’t ignore the big elephant in the room: the political situation between Iran and the United States. As a community we […]
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Immigrant Networks: Negotiating Cultural Complexity within Modern Nation States
This panel was moderated by Shamila Dilmaghani.
Kathryn Spellman, London Middle East Institute at SOAS, University of London
Iranian Cultural Scenes in London
There are some 40K Iranians in England and Wales, not including Iranian children born in England and Wales. Generally speaking, Iranians didn’t plan to live there […]
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This panel was moderated by Shayda Naficy.
Panelists:
Journalist Kamin Mohammadi: The Intimate Outsider: The Challenges of Representing Modern Iran to Western Media and the Iranian Diaspora
A few years ago, Mohammadi received a phone call from a British journalist friend writing a paper about women in Iran for a large British paper. The paper that resulted left […]
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