Zari Taheri
Berkeley Lecture Series Presents:
A Lecture by
Dr. Zahra Taheri, Scholar
Topic:
” سکوت کهن آینه ها – زندگی و شعر عالمتاج قائم مقامی – ژاله”
“The Poetry & Life of Alamtaj Ghaem-Maghami (Jaleh)”
Place: Central Stage,
5221Central Ave, Richmond, CA
Date: Sunday, January 7th, 2018
Time: 4:00 pm
Dr. Taheri studied classical and contemporary Persian literature in Iran at Pahlavi (Shiraz) University, and received her Master’s degree in Persian studies from the Pajuheshkade-ye Farhang-e Iran, and her PH.D from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. During the last two decades she has taught Persian literature, language, Iranian history and culture, and Gender and culture courses in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley (USA), the Department of Persian Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan), and Australasian National University (Australia). Her first book, Hozur-e peyda va penhan-e zan dar mutun-e sufiyyeh was published by the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies/Japan in 2007. Her second book “The Ancient Silence of Mirrors” (Sokut-e Kohan-e ‘Ayene-haa) has been published in Japanese in Tokyo, and Persian by Nashr-e Sales in Iran. She is currently working on her upcoming book on “The Image of Women in Persian Ethical Texts.” This research project received a fellowship from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford in 2016-2017. Taheri is also a published poet with two collections of poetry: Milad and Pegaah-e Nokhostin. Her third poetry book “Daaman be Khaak Mikeshad Maah” is in the process of being published by “Nashr-e Sales” in Iran.
The Ancient Silence of Mirrors – This book is a look at the poetry and life of Alamtaj Ghaem-Maghami (Jaleh), a poet who laid the foundations of the feminine thought and language in Persian literature. She was born in the late Qajar period in the family of Mirza Abolghasem Ghaem-Magham-e Farahani and was 23 when the Constitutional Decree was signed. During her lifetime, she did not publish her poetry and was not known as a poet. Her poem is a mirror reflecting the life of the Iranian woman in an uneasy daunting time, a symbol of an intelligent and liberal woman who does not blindly obey the customary rules. She is the first woman poet who wrote about her personal life as well as social issues from of a woman’s point of view.
Lecture in Persian