Wednesday, August 20, 2008 
Slides from these presentations will be available on the IAAB website soon! For now:
This workshop is by Dr. Mahnaz Motevalli, VP of Children of Persia. Motevalli is a teacher at Johns Hopkins’ medical school.
The first 45 minutes will be formal, and at the end there will be discussion.
Children of Persia (COP) intro:
The organization was […]
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This panel is being moderated by Nasim Hurd.
Children of Persia’s Brian Oliner: Civic Participation: Where the Community is and Where it Needs to Be
Civic participation is a key factor for working for the Iranian community. What is civic participation? One aspect is voting, but Oliner will not talk about this today. Civic participation is not […]
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We’ve just finished lunch and are watching a video about IAAB’s awesome camp - Camp Ayandeh. Check out the video here:
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Moderated by Yousef Tehrani, whose introductory remarks are speaking to the interconnectedness of media. The speakers here are creators and scholars of Iranian media.
[Please note that these posts are paraphrased.]
Panelists/Papers:
Journalist Homa Sarshar: Iranian Media as Cultural Opposition
Sarshar says she is impressed with IAAB and is proud to be here. Exile is not a particularly […]
Executive cofounders introduce the organization. There are 250 registered conference attendees this year; the massive conference room is about 75% full.
The NYU Persian Cultural Society is co-hosting (many thanks to them for hooking us up with Internet access); the president of the organization, Shaheen, is half-Asian, half-Iranian.
Sheena, conference project manager, says the “conference’s purpose […]
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It’s finally here: we’re gearing up for this weekend’s Iranian Alliances Conference at NYU.
Pars Arts will be live-blogging the entire event, so check in throughout the day for coverage on each panel, with commentary. See you tomorrow!
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We’ve relaunched our site - it’s now being hosted on WordPress and it’s accessible exclusively via ParsArts.com.
Why the relaunch? This project was started in December 2006 with the intention of creating a community of young Iranian writers and artists and readers. We hope this layout helps us get closer to that.
Please be patient as we […]
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