Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is delighted to report that nine students received Roshan Institute Fellowships for Persian and Iranian Studies during academic year 2012-2013 at the University of Arizona. Fellowship recipients: Jason Watson, Marie Donovan, Mojtaba Ebrahimian, Zahra Karimi, Ana Ghoreishian, Farrah Jafari, Isra Yaghoubi, Kian Gordon Alavy, and Mehrak Kamalisarvestani carried out research projects on a variety of subjects ranging from Persian language and literature to music and humor. Roshan Institute Fellowships for Excellence in Persian Studies was established in 2003 in the School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies (formerly Department of Near Eastern Studies) and has distributed more than 40 awards since 2005.
