Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran

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Organizing Institution: The University of British Columbia
Contact email: [email protected]
Start Date: October 24, 2021 (02:00am GMT+03:00)
End Date: October 24, 2021 (03:15 GMT+03:00)
Cost: Free
Website: https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/women-prayer-and-poetry-in-iran/
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Description:

In this event, attendees will learn about the co-existence of prayer and poems, from a group of women in Iran. Dr. Niloofar Haeri will present her personal ethnographic study of the co-existence of prayer and poems. She will discuss its significance and what it means for the rest of us, and what we can learn from it.