For the past 5 (I think...!) years, the Middle Eastern Studies department of the Elliott School has had a spring conference dedicated to an important subject in Middle Eastern current events. This year, the subject was Iran in Transition, and it hosted a whole host of lecturers from GW as well as other esteemed universities and international relations think tanks throughout the country.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend the whole conference since I had several classes and a final that day, but I made sure I was there for the keynote speaker, Dr. Ebadi. It was so cool to see her! Especially since she was in the documentary I saw recently at DC Filmfest--her ideology and powerful messages were fresh in my mind. One drawback was that she had to speak through a translator. Being a partial-Persian speaker, I was able to understand a good bit of what she said, so it was a bit toilsome hearing her say a sentence then having to hear the same thing again in English. It took away from the time I got to hear her! (Though I'll admit it was helpful to my comprehension) And it's so cool that I got to have this experience, I made all my Iranian family jealous!
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| Dr. Shirin Ebadi, my namesake and a pretty awesome and prolific lady. |
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