Fall ISAA Calendar of Events and 1st Meeting!

Welcome back to school!!! ISAA is thrilled to hit the road again with you all! Below is a listing of all the events planned for the semester. If you'd like to know the details of each event and/or to be notified of them, please join the ISAA email list though the front page of the ISAA site. And remember, the first ISAA meeting to kick of the semester is Wednesday, August 31st at 7:00pm at 110 Barrows Hall!

1. Student Lecture: "Rumi's Family, Status of His father & Migration" (8.30)
2. First ISAA Meeting of the Fall Semester (8.31)
3. Student Lecture: "What is Mathnavi & Brief Mention of Rumi's Works" (9.06)
4. Documentary Screening: "Mystical Iran" (9.13)
5. Documentary Screening: "The CIA and Coup of 1953 in Iran" (9.19)
6. Student Lecture: "Shams-e-Tabriz & Life Before Meeting Rumi" (9.20)
7. 11th ISAA-ISCO Joint Poetry Night (9.22)
8. Screening of Documentaries by Iranian Director Moslem Mansouri (9.24)
9. ABC Documentary: "Evolution of Revolution: Live from Tehran" (9.26)
10. Student Lecture: "Sugar Market & Hallaj Mansour" (9.27)
11. BBC Documentary: "Iran: A Revolution Betrayed" (10.03)
12. Student Lecture: "The 'Meeting' Continued" (10.04)
13. Student Lecture: "Iran-Iraq War: Causes, Repercussions & Outcomes" (10.10)
14. Student Lecture: "The Beginning of Mathnavi & 'Attar and 'Sanaie'" (10.11)
15. 6th ISAA Iranian Music Night (10.13)
16. 4th Annual ISAA Backgammon Tournament (10.16)
17. Student Lecture: "Structure of the Islamic Republic & Reform Movement" (10.17)
18. Student Lecture: "Iran: Forefront of Religious Reformation Movement" (10.24)
19. Student Lecture: "Pluralism & the story of 'Moses and the Shepard'" (10.25)
20. 6th Open Forum - Theme: "TBA" (10.27)
21. Guest Lecture: Dr. Dariush Zahedi. Topic: "TBA" (10.31)
22. Student Lecture: "Different Kinds of Faith" (11.01)
23. 12th ISAA Joint Poetry Night (11.03)
24. Student Lecture: "Women in Iran" & Doc: "Iran Behind Closed Cha-Dors" (11.07)
25. Student Lecture: "Rumi and Ghazali" (11.08)
26. Iranian Movie Night: "Crimson Gold" (11.14)
27. Student Lecture: "Rumi's Pain and Suffering After Shams's Departure" (11.15)
28. Lecture: "Iran's Nuclear Standoff with the West" (11.21)
29. Student Lecture: "Rumi, Islamic Reformation & Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush" (11.22)
30. Student Lecture: "Social Epidemics in Iran" & 5th Graduate Mini Lecture Series (11.28)
31. Student Lecture: "'Accidental' and 'Essential'" (11.29)
32. Student Lecture: "Where is Iran Headed Now?" (12.05)
33. Final ISAA Meeting of the Fall Semester (12.05)

** All dates and locations are subject to change, please keep yourself posted by checking your ISAA emails consistently as we will update you on any changes. All students and members of the community are welcome to attend our events.

Have a Great Summer!

Now that finals are over, ISAA would like to wish you all a fun and well-deserved summer break. Remember to be safe and to check your weekly ISAA emails. See you in the fall!

ISAA Site Counts 60,000th Hit!

Another milestone has been reached, the ISAA site, after only 2 years of operation, has counted its 60,000th hit... quite an accomplishment by student group standards! Thank you to all those webmasters that have linked the ISAA site onto their sites and for all the viewers who frequent the site.

ISAA Directors Iranians of the Day!

ISAA Board Member Aidin Fathalizadeh recently and successfully nominated the ISAA Directors as Iranians of the Day on Iranian.com! Congratulations ISAA team on a great year!

Good Luck on Your Finals!

ISAA would like to wish you all the best of luck on all your final examinations and final papers. Hang in there as the much need and deserved summer break is near. And to the graduating class, congratulations and we bid you farewell!

ISAA Receives 3rd Award!

It is a great honor for us to announce that ISAA has won its 3rd award, 2nd from UC Berkeley's Office of Student Life (the other was from Payvand Cultural Center). On Thursday, May 5, ISAA was honored in the area of "Campus Presence" with a highest excellency award, the same category won by ISAA last year. This is quite an accomplishment given that there are nearly 500 student groups on campus and ISAA, according to the award and the Office of Student Life, had the strongest presence and represented!

Newly Launched ISAA Blog!

The offical ISAA site will continue to be a database for information pertaining to ISAA and event pictures will continue to be posted on the site, but from now on, all ISAA announcements and events will be posted on the ISAA listserve as well as this newly launched ISAA blog.