ELEPHANTS BY CANDLELIGHT:
INSIGHTS ON THE POETIC SOUL OF IRAN
Friday, May 9, 3pm, 4130 Posvar Hall
Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz-Karanrustafa, chair of the Department of Asian and Near
Eastern Languages and Literatures and professor of Persian and comparative literature
at Washington University in St. Louis, and author of Jasmine and Stars: Reading More
than Lolita in Tehran, will discuss her extensive study of the poetry of Rumi and the
influence of the poetic spirit on contemporary Iran.
Sponsored by the Global Studies Program of the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and by the John & Lauretta Leone Memorial Fund
