Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is pleased to announce a lecture and book signing with Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz, speaking on her new book Lyrics of Life: Sa’di on Love Cosmopolitanishm and Care of Self, as part of The Persian Book Lecture Series at the Library of Congress.
Dr. Keshavarz is the Roshan Institute Chair in Persian Studies and Director of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a published poet and author of six books including Reading Mystical Lyric: the Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi, Recite in the Name of the Red Rose: Poetic Sacred Making in Twentieth Century Iran, and Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran. In 2009, her NPR appearance on ‘On Being: The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi’ received the Peabody Award, and she received the Hershel Walker Peace and Justice Award.
Lyrics of Life focuses on the works of the master medieval poet Sa‘di of Shiraz (d. 1291), one of the funniest, most influential and lyrical figures in classical Persian poetry.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Thomas Jefferson Building, African Middle Eastern Reading Room, LJ-220 | Library of Congress
