In March, Jews around the world celebrate the spring festival of Purim by remembering the feisty Persian Queen Esther. But this Purim, we're turning our thoughts to contemporary Iran. The country has recently been torn apart by bloody uprisings supporting the rights of women and girls, and there has been speculation that some of the demonstrators have been Jewish. Join us on International Women's Day to explore the upheavals going on in Iran and illuminate the country's Jewish legacy with a group of Iranian writers, including Dora Levy Mossanen, author of Love and War in the Jewish Quarter; Dr Jaleh Pirnazar, a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at University of California, Berkeley; and Elham Gheytanchi, a sociologist at Santa Monica College, California, and expert on women’s rights in the Middle East and North Africa.
This talk will be free to attend, and held with our partners at Jewish Renaissance.
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