International Human Rights Day: Three Women in Conversation about Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran
Human Rights and Iran's Current Zhina Revolution, International Human Rights Day
In celebrating International Human
Rights day and observing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights anniversary.
The United Nations Association * San
Fernando Valley Chapter & American Association of University Women brings
this event to you.
Key speakers Dr. Nayereh Tohidi, Professor & Director
of ME&IS@CSUN, and Ms. Ava Homa
Award Winning Author and Journalist.
Facilitator: Dr. Soraya Fallah,
UNAUSA*SFV Vice-president Program/Advocacy Chair
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About our speakers
Ava Homa is an award-winning novelist, a seasoned journalist, and a human rights activist. Her bylines have appeared in publications such as the Globe and Mail, Literary Hub, Toronto Star, Literary Review of Canada, Room Magazine, and many more. She has spoken about women's rights across North America and Europe, including at the United Nations, Geneva.
Ava has a Master's degree in
Creative Writing from the University of Windsor, Canada. Her book of short
stories on modern Iranian women Echoes from the Other Land was
nominated for the 2011 Frank O'Connor Short Story Prize. Her debut novel Daughters
of Smoke and Fire, the story of a Kurdish woman’s search for
justice and freedom, won the 2020 Nautilus Book Award. Daughters
of Smoke and Fire was also nominated for the 2022 William
Saroyan International Writing Prize and it's Roxane Gay's December book club
pick.
About the speakers Nayereh Esfahlani Tohidi (Persian: is an Iranian-born American professor,
researcher, and academic administrator. Tohidi is a Professor Emerita and
former Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Founding Director of the
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (from 2011 to 2021) at California State University, Northridge.
She is also a research associate at the
Center for Near Eastern Studies of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
where she had coordinated the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran since 2003.[4] She
specializes in the fields of gender, Islam, feminism, modernity, and democracy;
ethnicity and ethno-religious movements; and human and women's rights in
the Persianate and Turkic Societies of the
Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Tohidi's publications include editorship or
authorship of Globalization, Gender and Religion: The Politics of
Women’s Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts; Women in Muslim
Societies: Diversity within Unity; and Feminism, Democracy and
Islamism in Iran. Her work has appeared in Ms. magazine.
Organizer and moderator of this program:
Dr. Soraya Fallah
Soraya is a lifelong woman and human rights researcher, and advocate. She is the former co-president of the UNASUA-SFV chapter and the current UNA-USA chapter advocacy chair and programming. She is also part of funding member and the first ambassador of USNC for the UNWomen Greater LA chapter with the mission of Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
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