Guest Lecture: "The Real Iran Agenda", ISAA Election Results and Thank You's

*Guest Lecture: "The Real Iran Agenda: U.S. sponsored guerilla attacks inside Iran and the Middle East Crisis"

What: Attend next and final session of ISAA's "ABC's of Iran" DeCal course, to be the first to hear a renowned journalist speak about his latest book on Iran, which is not published until September!

Who: Freelance foreign correspondent Reese Erlich has covered the Middle East for 20 years on assignments for the San Francisco Chronicle, Dallas Morning News and NPR. Erlich will discuss his book "The Iran Agenda: the real story of U.S. policy and the Middle East crisis," which will be published in September. In preparing his book, Erlich interviewed President Bashir al Asad of Syria and Reza Pahlavi, among others.
Reese Erlich reports regularly for National Public Radio, Marketplace Radio, Latino USA, Radio Deutche Welle, Australian Broadcasting Corp. Radio, and Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio. He also writes for San Francisco Chronicle, St. Petersburg Times, and Christian Science Monitor.

When: Monday 5/7/07 6PM-8PM

Where: 3 Le Conte, UC Berkeley Campus (Map)


*The event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come first served.
*ASUC Sponsored.
*Wheelchair Accessible.

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2007-2008 ISAA Board of Directors Election Results and End of the year Thank You's

The votes have been tallied and the results are in! Golnaz Nouri and Fren Khadivian will be joining the ISAA's Board of Directors on June 1st for the start of the next term. Navid Khadem, Shahrzad Abbassi Rahbar and Jazzi Junge have been re-elected to the board for another term. A hearty congratulations to each of them!

This year as the graduation season approaches, we will say goodbye to ISAA directors Ali Assareh and Shamis Fallah, who have spent countless hours of their time for ISAA over the past years. Ali has co-thought ISAA's popular and heavily waitlisted Decal Course on Iran for 5 semesters and Shamis has contributed a lot as ISAA's publicity director.We wish them all the best for their futures and want them to know that their generous contributions will always be remembered.

We would like to express our gratitude to ISAA's advisor Arash Aramesh whose efforts made us able to hold some of our most successful large events, such as Mr. Ganji's lecture on "Gender Apartheid in Iran" and the "56th Anniversary celebration of the Iranian Oil Nationalization" 3-day conference, to name a few. ISAA will miss his skills and sense of humor and the many invaluable contributions he has made to our success.

We would like to thank our graduating ISAA board members Reza Kamrava, Arash Parsa, and Hormozd Gahvari for their extraordinary efforts and contributions to our organization. Their services and support to ISAA will never be forgotten.

We would like to thank ISAA's continuing board members ,directors, committees' chairs and advisors and recognize their tremendous efforts and dedicated service for upholding the standards and ideals of the Iranian Student Alliance in America.

We would also like to thank all the wonderful people who contribute their personal funds, their time, services, and products to ISAA. Since ISAA's birth, your generous support has helped ISAA be one of the most respected and most successful organizations on Berkeley campus and among the Iranian community in the U.S.
Lastly, we would like to acknowledge all our members, new and old, and thank them for continuing to support our organization. We appreciate your comments and encourage your participation in keeping ISAA's events lively and informative.

The 2007-2008 ISAA officer placement, based on the number of votes each candidate received:
Navid Khadem President
Shahrzad Abbassi Rahbar Publicity Director
Golnaz Nouri Resource Director
Fren Khadivian Communications Director
Jazzi Junge Finance Director

The new ISAA Board of Directors will choose a maximum of 15 active members to be on 2007-2008 ISAA’s board. We will announce more information on this in our future emails.