ISAA's UPCOMING EVENTS
*Iran's Nuclear Program
What: Attend next session of ISAA's "ABC's of Iran" DeCal course, to learn the basics of Iran's nuclear program and to watch a documentary screening of Iran's hidden nuclear facilities. You can also discuss your views on Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Who: Ali Assareh & Hoda Fahimi ( ISAA's DeCal student Lecturers )
When: Monday 4/23/07 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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*The Legitimation Crisis in Tehran: Iranian Dissidents, Neoconservatives and the Left
Who: Danny Postel, Senior Editor of openDemocracy.net
When: Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:00 p.m.
Where: North Gate Library, Hearst at Euclid Ave. (Map)
Sponsored by: The Institute of International Studies and the Religion, Politics and Globalization Program
Cosponsored by: Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley
The Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley
Iranian Student Alliance in America (ISAA)
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*ISAA's 8th Iranian Music Night
What: Take a break from the stress of life: work, exams, studying, etc., and come and relax to the musical genius of your fellow Iranians.If you are interested in performing, please contact ISAA's board member and Music Night coordinatorPourya Khademi at violin@berkeley.edu so he can coordinate joint performances. Please get in touch with Pourya soon.
When: Thursday, April 26th 7:30PM
Where: Persian Center at 2029 Durant Ave. (Map)
* Refreshments will be served.
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*ISAA Elections
What: ISAA will be holding its 6th democratic elections for the positions of President, Communications Director, Resource Director, Publicity Director, and Financial Director.
Being an ISAA Director is both an amazing experience and very prestigious. Since its birth on Berkeley campus in the Fall of 2002, ISAA has become to be known as one of the most respected groups on campus which focuses on issues that really matter. With such high values in its mission statement, ISAA distances itself from being just another party thrower club.
In addition, ISAA Directors find their position to be filled with rewarding experiences, as they get to become more involved in the Iranian community. They get to meet, know, help and work with many important scholars along with influential and successful people in the community.
There are 5 positions available to run for . To see the descriptions of each, please see ISAA's constitution on the "About ISAA" section of our website:http://isaa.berkeley.edu/. And please read the membership clause (Article III) to see if you are eligible to vote. The constitution will be strictly enforced for this election.
If you want to run for an ISAA officer position or know someone who should, enter the nomination soon by emailing ISAA at isaa.berkeley@gmail.com . In your email please state why you would like to be an officer and why you'd make a good candidate. The deadline for nominations is only a week away and is on April 29th at midnight (11:59 PM).
No leadership experience is needed as the outgoing ISAA directors will make sure you fully know the inside mechanisms of how to run the club most sufficiently.
When: Tuesday, May 1st 8PM
Where: TBA
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Internship position at a Berkeley film production company
Promises Films, a film production company based in Berkeley is looking for a Farsi-English bilingual interns to help them during production of their latest project titled "Global Moms". Interns will help with Farsi to English translation and related office work.
To learn more about this project visit the Global Moms project summery or its homepage. you can watch the promotional video of this project on YouTube or download it from the project homepage.
Promises Films produced a documentary titled "Promises" which was nominated for the Best Feature Documentary, at the 74th Annual Academy Awards and won the best documentary at the Emmy Awards the same year. This documentary won tens of other prestigious awards and was nominated and selected for several well known International movie festivals and award ceremonies. you can visit Promises Project Homepage to view a preview or see the complete awards and nominations list.
To apply for this position please email Negar Ghobadi at negar@are.berkeley.edu or call (510)-486-9733
Monday, April 23, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
ISAA Movie Night ( Charshanbe Souri )
What: ISAA Presents:
"Charshanbe Souri". A movie by Asghar Farhadi.
Cast include Hadiyeh Tehrani, Hamid Farokhnejad, Taraneh Alidoost, Mehran Maham.
When: Thursday, April 19th @ 6PM
Where: 6 Evans Hall (Map)
This movie is in Farsi with no English subtitles.
The event is free and open to the public.
ASUC Sponsored.
Wheelchair Accessible
ISAA Elections
What: ISAA will be holding its 6th democratic elections for the positions of President, Communications Director, Resource Director, Publicity Director, and Financial Director.
Being an ISAA Director is both an amazing experience and very prestigious. Since its birth on Berkeley campus in the Fall of 2002, ISAA has become to be known as one of the most respected groups on campus which focuses on issues that really matter. With such high values in its mission statement, ISAA distances itself from being just another party thrower club.
In addition, ISAA Directors find their position to be filled with rewarding experiences, as they get to become more involved in the Iranian community. They get to meet, know, help and work with many important scholars along with influential and successful people in the community.
There are 5 positions available to run for . To see the descriptions of each, please see ISAA's constitution on the "About ISAA" section of our website:http://isaa.berkeley.edu/. And please read the membership clause (Article III) to see if you are eligible to vote. The constitution will be strictly enforced for this election.
If you want to run for an ISAA officer position or know someone who should, enter the nomination soon by emailing ISAA at isaa.berkeley at gmail.com . In your email please state why you would like to be an officer and why you'd make a good candidate. The deadline is April 29th at midnight (11:59 PM).
No leadership experience is needed as the outgoing ISAA directors will make sure you fully know the inside mechanisms of how to run the club most sufficiently.
When: Tuesday, May 1st @ 8PM
Where: TBA
Visit ISAA Table on Cal Day 2007
What: ISAA will take part in Cal Day 2007 by tabling on Sproul from 9:00AM - 3:00PM. Stop by table number 18 to say hi, pick up an issue of Goftegoo, or buy one of the remaining famous ISAA T-shirts or CDs we have left.
UC Berkeley is an exciting place every day — a center of new ideas, research discoveries, thrilling sports, dazzling performances. Cal Day is like no other here on campus. Spend it in Cal’s classrooms and labs, museums and performance halls, libraries and arenas. Check out hundreds of student groups on your way to the Sather gate. Take in all that Berkeley has to offer, and see why Cal is the world’s premier public university.
When: Saturday, April 21, 2007 9AM - 3PM
Where: UC Berkeley Campus
Update you Address book! ISAA retires its old email address
As many of you already know, ISAA started using it's new email address( isaa.berkeley at gmail.com ) beginning Fall 2006.
We won't be checking ISAA's old email address (i_saa at yahoo.com) very often from now on.
So, please send all you emails to the new address and update your address books.
Our email list software is configured so that if you press reply to one of our ISAA Board emails, your emails will go to the new address automatically.
What: ISAA Presents:
"Charshanbe Souri". A movie by Asghar Farhadi.
Cast include Hadiyeh Tehrani, Hamid Farokhnejad, Taraneh Alidoost, Mehran Maham.
When: Thursday, April 19th @ 6PM
Where: 6 Evans Hall (Map)
This movie is in Farsi with no English subtitles.
The event is free and open to the public.
ASUC Sponsored.
Wheelchair Accessible
ISAA Elections
What: ISAA will be holding its 6th democratic elections for the positions of President, Communications Director, Resource Director, Publicity Director, and Financial Director.
Being an ISAA Director is both an amazing experience and very prestigious. Since its birth on Berkeley campus in the Fall of 2002, ISAA has become to be known as one of the most respected groups on campus which focuses on issues that really matter. With such high values in its mission statement, ISAA distances itself from being just another party thrower club.
In addition, ISAA Directors find their position to be filled with rewarding experiences, as they get to become more involved in the Iranian community. They get to meet, know, help and work with many important scholars along with influential and successful people in the community.
There are 5 positions available to run for . To see the descriptions of each, please see ISAA's constitution on the "About ISAA" section of our website:http://isaa.berkeley.edu/. And please read the membership clause (Article III) to see if you are eligible to vote. The constitution will be strictly enforced for this election.
If you want to run for an ISAA officer position or know someone who should, enter the nomination soon by emailing ISAA at isaa.berkeley at gmail.com . In your email please state why you would like to be an officer and why you'd make a good candidate. The deadline is April 29th at midnight (11:59 PM).
No leadership experience is needed as the outgoing ISAA directors will make sure you fully know the inside mechanisms of how to run the club most sufficiently.
When: Tuesday, May 1st @ 8PM
Where: TBA
Visit ISAA Table on Cal Day 2007
What: ISAA will take part in Cal Day 2007 by tabling on Sproul from 9:00AM - 3:00PM. Stop by table number 18 to say hi, pick up an issue of Goftegoo, or buy one of the remaining famous ISAA T-shirts or CDs we have left.
UC Berkeley is an exciting place every day — a center of new ideas, research discoveries, thrilling sports, dazzling performances. Cal Day is like no other here on campus. Spend it in Cal’s classrooms and labs, museums and performance halls, libraries and arenas. Check out hundreds of student groups on your way to the Sather gate. Take in all that Berkeley has to offer, and see why Cal is the world’s premier public university.
When: Saturday, April 21, 2007 9AM - 3PM
Where: UC Berkeley Campus
Update you Address book! ISAA retires its old email address
As many of you already know, ISAA started using it's new email address( isaa.berkeley at gmail.com ) beginning Fall 2006.
We won't be checking ISAA's old email address (i_saa at yahoo.com) very often from now on.
So, please send all you emails to the new address and update your address books.
Our email list software is configured so that if you press reply to one of our ISAA Board emails, your emails will go to the new address automatically.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
6th ISAA Backgammon Tournament
Please see below for the new ROOM. No longer in 140 Barrows.
What: This Sunday ISAA will be holding its popular and highly competitive backgammon tournament. As always, it will be a spirited event with intense competition and contenders will bring their experience in the ancient game to compete for bragging rights and first, second, and third place trophies. Surely, it will be a fun time for all those involved, so we hope you don't miss it!
This semester, in order to shorten the tournament length we will be playing best of three during the group stage.
When: Sunday, April 8th @ 11 AM
Where: Room 201 Giannini Hall (Map)
Cost : FREE
The event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.
To RSVP please email ISAA's board member, Hormozd Gahvari at hormozd@EECS.berkeley.EDU
ASUC Sponsored.
Wheelchair Accessible.
What: This Sunday ISAA will be holding its popular and highly competitive backgammon tournament. As always, it will be a spirited event with intense competition and contenders will bring their experience in the ancient game to compete for bragging rights and first, second, and third place trophies. Surely, it will be a fun time for all those involved, so we hope you don't miss it!
This semester, in order to shorten the tournament length we will be playing best of three during the group stage.
When: Sunday, April 8th @ 11 AM
Where: Room 201 Giannini Hall (Map)
Cost : FREE
The event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.
To RSVP please email ISAA's board member, Hormozd Gahvari at hormozd@EECS.berkeley.EDU
ASUC Sponsored.
Wheelchair Accessible.
Spring Lecture Series on U.S. Foreign Policy and Iran
Iranian Student Alliance in America - ISAA UC Berkeley (HQ)/Georgetown Uni. (Chapter)
ISAA's UPCOMING EVENTS
Please read below for information regarding 3 interesting lectures on Iran that ISAA just sponsored.
ISAA and Religion, Politics and Globalization Program (RPGP) at UC Berkeley proudly present:
Spring Lecture Series on U.S. Foreign Policy and Iran :
What: "Shilling for the Next War: Coverage of Bush's Plans for War with Iran"
Who: Reese Erlich, Author of "The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis"
When: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 @ 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Where: North Gate Library, Hearst at Euclid Avenue, Berkeley (Map)
*Sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism, the National Writers Union, the Religion, Politics and Globalization Program, and the Institute of International Studies and Iranian Student Alliance in America.
*For more information on this event, please visit http://journalism.berkeley.edu/
*The event is free and open to the public.
ASUC Sponsored.
Wheelchair Accessible
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What: "The View from Inside Iran"
Who: Karim Sadjadpour, Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
When: Monday, April 9, 2007 @ 4:00 p.m.
Where: 223 Moses Hall (Map)
*Sponsored by the Institute of International Studies and the Religion, Politics and Globalization Program and cosponsored by Iranian Student Alliance in America.
*The event is free and open to the public.
ASUC Sponsored.
Wheelchair Accessible
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What: "The Legitimation Crisis in Tehran: Iranian Dissidents, Neoconservatives and the Left"
Who: Danny Postel, Senior Editor of openDemocracy.net
When: Thursday, April 26, 2007 @ 5:00 p.m.
Where: North Gate Library, Hearst at Euclid Ave. (Map)
*Sponsored by the Institute of International Studies and the Religion, Politics and Globalization Program Cosponsored by Peace and Conflict Studies ,the Graduate School of Journalism and Iranian Student Alliance in America.
*The event is free and open to the public.
ASUC Sponsored.
Wheelchair Accessible
ISAA's UPCOMING EVENTS
Please read below for information regarding 3 interesting lectures on Iran that ISAA just sponsored.
ISAA and Religion, Politics and Globalization Program (RPGP) at UC Berkeley proudly present:
Spring Lecture Series on U.S. Foreign Policy and Iran :
What: "Shilling for the Next War: Coverage of Bush's Plans for War with Iran"
Who: Reese Erlich, Author of "The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis"
When: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 @ 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Where: North Gate Library, Hearst at Euclid Avenue, Berkeley (Map)
*Sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism, the National Writers Union, the Religion, Politics and Globalization Program, and the Institute of International Studies and Iranian Student Alliance in America.
*For more information on this event, please visit http://journalism.berkeley.edu/
*The event is free and open to the public.
ASUC Sponsored.
Wheelchair Accessible
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What: "The View from Inside Iran"
Who: Karim Sadjadpour, Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
When: Monday, April 9, 2007 @ 4:00 p.m.
Where: 223 Moses Hall (Map)
*Sponsored by the Institute of International Studies and the Religion, Politics and Globalization Program and cosponsored by Iranian Student Alliance in America.
*The event is free and open to the public.
ASUC Sponsored.
Wheelchair Accessible
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What: "The Legitimation Crisis in Tehran: Iranian Dissidents, Neoconservatives and the Left"
Who: Danny Postel, Senior Editor of openDemocracy.net
When: Thursday, April 26, 2007 @ 5:00 p.m.
Where: North Gate Library, Hearst at Euclid Ave. (Map)
*Sponsored by the Institute of International Studies and the Religion, Politics and Globalization Program Cosponsored by Peace and Conflict Studies ,the Graduate School of Journalism and Iranian Student Alliance in America.
*The event is free and open to the public.
ASUC Sponsored.
Wheelchair Accessible
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