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April 2019
Anahita Alavi: Manuscript Illumination – Process and Examples
Anahita Alavi is an Iranian artist who has learned Persian Miniature, Islamic Illumination and Geometric design under the supervision of the great masters in Iran. She has taught Persian painting and Islamic illumination at the Payam-e Noor University of Tehran and a number of schools and institutes in Iran. Since 2016, she has been engaged in teaching and producing Persian painting and illumination at SOAS. In this talk she will go through the process of preparing the materials and production…
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Lindsey Allen: “Persepolis in the Diaspora”
A discussion about items removed from Persepolis to foreign collections.
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Dr Katayoun Shafiee: “Machineries of Oil: An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran”
Dr Shafiee lectures at Warwick University and has recently published a book on BP with this title. The lecture will be preceded by the Annual General Meeting at 6.15pm
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