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Pembroke College Celebrates Official Opening of Shahnama Centre for Persian Studies with $2M Endowment by Philanthropist Bita Daryabari

3 Jun 2013

On Saturday, May 24th, Global philanthropist Bita Daryabari and speakers from around the globe gathered to celebrate the official opening of the Shahnama Centre for Persian Studies (http://persian.pem.cam.ac.uk) at Pembroke College in Cambridge, England. (Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.) The $2 million (US) endowment by Daryabari ensured the creation of the Centre, which aims to encourage research on Persian literature, history and art. The Centre grew...

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Conference ‘Orientality: Cultural Orientalism and Mentality’

17 May 2013 (All day) to 18 May 2013 (All day)

Pembroke hosted the conference ‘Orientality: Cultural Orientalism and Mentality’, organised by Dr Firuza Melville of Pembroke College, Cambridge and Dr Olga Nefedova of the Orientalist Museum, Doha.

Over two days (17-18 May 2013) museum curators, academics and writers coming from the UK, Europe, Qatar, Turkey, Uzbekistan and the USA presented a wide range of papers examining different aspects of Cultural Orientalism, including visual art, literature, music and dance.

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