Kamran Shahlaie’s plays will Review

Iran Thearer-Ahoo Najafian introduces and talks about Kamran Shahlaie’s plays  at Carleton College.

At “Iran Today” Lecturer Series which are aimed to introduce Iranian Today Modern arts, Ahoo Najafian introduces and reviews  some of Kamran Shahlaie’s works such as “Tell The story or Die”,”You’ve busy to die” and “7 days Of Tir 60”.

Ahoo Najafian (B.A. University of Tehran; M.A. University of British Columbia; Ph.D. Stanford University) is interested in how cultures understand and reproduce themselves across time. Her research explores the relationship between the different notions of literature and religion with a focus on Persianate literature and Islamicate cultures. She is also interested in contemporary art of the Middle East and has worked with Iranian artists on collaborative projects. Her current project, Poetic Nation, explores the intersections of religion, poetry, and politics in twentieth-century Iran through the category of mysticism (ʿerfan) and follows a range of nation-building enterprises, from Islamism to Communism, materialized in the ways in which the fourteenth-century poet Hafez and his poetry are understood. She will be teaching courses on gender, literature, arts, and nation building in the Middle East.