An Evening with Rumi

Poetry Recitation by Iraj Anvar with Music by Renowned Santurist Alan Kushan

Thursday, March 10, 2011 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
Johnson Center, the Bistro

The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, the Center for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (CAPEC) and the School of Music present: "An Evening with Rumi."

Iraj Anvar has been reading Rumi, Hafez, Ferdowsi and other Persian poets for Iranian and American audiences for the past several years. In 1991, he received his PhD from NYU, where he has taught Persian Language and Literature at the department of Middle Eastern Studies. In 2008, he was appointed to start a Persian program at Brown University where he continues to teach Persian language and culture. Say Nothing, Dr. Anvar’s latest selection of Rumi’s poetry, translated with Anne Twitty, was published in 2008 by Morning Light Press.

Alan Kushan is an internationally recognized avant-garde "santurist" and the leading exponent of the New Santur style. He has studied music composition in Zurich, Köln and Berlin as well as in Canada and the United States; he has also studied with Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Karlheinz Stockhausen and other master musicians.

Hosted by Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies.

Sponsored by Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, Center for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (CAPEC) and the School of Music.