Lessons of Towfigh

The York Centre for Asian Research, the Department of History, and the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics host The Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture Series: Iranian Cinema. Amir Ganjavi, a PhD in communication and culture, is a Toronto-based writer, cultural critic, festival director, community activist, and filmmaker. https://youtu.be/eK_4EtuT4mo

Rivanne Sandler is Professor Emerita at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Toronto. She is a specialist of early-20th century Iranian women’s poetry. In their vision of a revitalization of the Persian nation modeled on the flourishing countries of Europe, 19th and early 20th c. century intellectuals factored in a female […]