Free Gallery Event: Houman Sarshar

In conjunction with Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, and taking place in the exhibition galleries, poets, scholars, and artists across a range of media and from varied backgrounds will read, perform, and reflect upon Neshat’s works, and delve into the universal themes of the exhibition: mysticism, metaphor, exile, politics, the natural world, feminism, and intimacy.

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Dr. Houman Sarshar received his B.A. from UCLA and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from Columbia University. He is an independent scholar, the co-editor of three volumes of The Contemporary History of Iranian Jews, and a contributing author to the Encyclopædia Iranica and The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. His publications include Esther’s Children: A Portrait of Iranian Jews, Jewish Communities of Iran: Entries on Judeo-Persian Communities published by the Encyclopædia Iranica, and The Jews of Iran: The History, Religion, and Culture of a Community in the Islamic World.

Dr. Sarshar is the founder of the Kimia Foundation, dedicated to promoting the art, culture, and history of Iran. With over 5,000 original photographs, the Kimia Foundation holds the largest archive of Qajar court photography outside the Golestan Palace in Tehran.

Dr. Sarshar is presently working on his next book about the role of Iranian Jews in classical and minstrel Persian music from the Safavid period to the end of the Pahlavi monarchy.

Free tickets can be booked in advance, and each event will have limited, walk-up admission on a first-come, first-served basis.

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