Berkeley Lectures Series presents
A Talk by Homa Sarshar
Topic:
خودی و ناخودی: حکایت دیروز و امروز و همیشه
Date: Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 4 PM – 6 PM
Place: 60 Barrows Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Homa Sarshar was born in Shiraz on 1946, and raised in Tehran. From 1964 to 1978, she worked as a correspondent, reporter, and columnist for Zan-e Ruz weekly magazine and Kayhan daily newspaper in Iran. During this period, she also worked as a television producer, director, and talk-show host for National Iranian Radio & Television. In 1978, Sarshar moved to Los Angeles where she resumed her career as a freelance journalist, radio and television producer, and on-air host. In 1982 as the co-producer, writer, and talk-show host of Omid Radio she co-founded a daily AM radio broadcast for the Los Angeles based Iranian immigrant community. Since 1993 Sarshar has been a trusted advisor by the Human Rights Watch the Hellman/Hammett grant program for writers all around the world who have been victims of political persecution and are in financial need. Throughout her 49-year career with Iranian and Iranian-American print, radio, and television, Sarshar has done more than 1500 interviews and has produced and anchored as many radio and television programs.
Lecture in Persian