“Berkeley Lecture Series” Presents:
A Conversation with Dr. Sadreddin Elahi on:
Journalism, Field Reporting, Serialized Magazine Stories, Political and Social Issues in Sports, Teaching Journalism, and Living in Exile.
Date: Sunday, May 1, 2011
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Place: 126 Barrows Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Sadreddin Elahi, veteran writer, critic, researcher, translator, poet, and an expert on ancient texts, is one of Iran ’s most prominent journalists, and one of the first writers of serialized fiction in Iran . He was the founder and editor of “Keyhan Varzeshi” established in 1955. He taught Journalism in The College of Communication Sciences in Iran , and he is one of the initiators of the modern style of conversational dialogue in newspaper journalism. He is also an outstanding field reporter as his reports from the Algerian War for Independence demonstrated. Dr. Elahi is the author of “Ba Saadi dar Bazercheh Zendeghi”, “Doori-ha va Delghiri-ha”, “Naghde Bee Ghash – Collected Conversations of Saderdin Elahi with Parviz Khanlari”, and a forthcoming book “Sayed Ziaedin.”
Lecture in Persian