Events Programme
2012
Annual General Meeting
Tuesday
19 June 2012
6.00pm
To be held at:
2 Belgrave Square
London SW1X 8PJ
Public Lecture
The 1953 coup against Mossadeq
Christopher de Bellaigue
(Journalist and author)
Tuesday
14 February 2012
6.30 for 7pm
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To be held at:
Royal Geographical Society
1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR
Tickets £10 by application. Unsold tickets will be available on the door.
2011
Centenary Dinner
How the West changed Persian Poetry
Dr Robert Irwin
(Author and traveller)
Tuesday 29 November 2011
7.00 for 7.45pm
To be held at:
The National Liberal Club
Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE
Tickets £45
2010
Christmas party
Vis and Ramin: the Mediaeval Lovers Who Started It All
Professor Richard Davis (Professor of Near Eastern Languages, Ohio State University, translator of Persian poetry)
Tuesday 7 December 2010
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Annual General Meeting
Canning House
2 Belgrave Square
London SW1
Wednesday 23 June 2010, starts at 6.00pm
2009
Christmas Party
Omar Khayyam: Poet, Rebel, Astronomer
Hazhir Teimourian (Political Analyst and Commentator,
former Times Correspondent)
Followed by Persian buffet
Tuesday 8 December 2009
Tickets £25, to be booked in advance
Public Lecture
Professor Bernard O’Kane
(Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, The American University in Cairo)
The Triumph of Colour - The Islamic Architecture of Iran
Royal Geographical Society + IBG
1 Kensington Gore
London SW7 2AR
Tuesday 17 November 2009, starts at 6pm
For tickets (£15 each), please contact us by email or telephone.
Annual General Meeting
The Middle East Association
33 Bury Street
London SW1 6AX
Tuesday 16 June 2009, starts at 5.45pm
Spring event
Tour of College and Persian Library and Reception at Wadham College,
Oxford,
Saturday 30 May 2009 at 5 pm.
For tickets (£18 each), please contact us by email or telephone.
2008
Christmas Party
An evening of classical Persian music. Farshad Mohammadi on santur with the Baran ensemble.
2 Belgrave Square
London SW1X 8PJ
Tuesday 9 December 2008
For tickets (£35 each), please contact us by email or telephone.
Photographic exhibition by Caroline Mawer
A People's Migration: Bakhtiari's Kuch
Brunei Gallery, SOAS
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
16 October - 13 December
Annual General Meeting
The Middle East Association
33 Bury Street
London SW1 6AX
Wednesday 25 June 2008, starts at 5.45pm
'Visual Representations of Iran
Conference, Film Season, Photographic Exhibition
For details click here
13 - 16 June 2008
2007
Christmas Party
Tuesday 18 December 2007, starts at 6.30pm
2 Belgrave Square
London SW1X 8PJ
Annual General Meeting
The Middle East Association
33 Bury Street
London SW1
Thursday 21 June 2007, starts at 5.45pm
2006
Christmas Party
Thursday 7 December 2006, starts at 6.45pm
Admission by ticket only
Special Event: Guided Tour of Jameel Gallery
Tim Stanley (Senior Curator, Middle East Dept, V & A)
Wednesday 4 October 2006, starts at 6.30pm
Admission by ticket only