Saeid Khadivian is an extremely eloquent speaker with over 20 years of service in the administrative structure of the Baha’i Faith in California, Texas, and Taiwan. He has conducted seminars with over 500 people in attendance, still talked about today by those who attended. The Bahá’í Club is honored to sponsor a rare public seminar and discussion. In addition to providing a brief introduction to the Bahá’í Faith, Mr. Khadivian will speak about the Bahá’i response to current events and the Faith’s attempt to create unity in a rapidly changing world. Topics of particular interest to the University community will include the attempt of the Bahá’í Faith to reconcile science and religion, the vital importance of higher education, and the principle of gender equality.

This exciting presentation will take place in Parkes Hall, Room 122, just south of the Chicago Ave/Sheridan Road corner at the Arch.

Please contact the Bahá’í Club at BahaiEventsChicago@gmail.com with questions.

http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/affiliates/the-protest/baha-i-means-unity-to-students-1.257921

Thanks to all of the students for making this a good year on campus, filled with Study Circles, Firesides, and more.   Look for exciting events to kick-off the fall of 2011!

The Northwestern Baha’i Club hosted the lecture, titled “Documenting the Role of Americans in A World Birth.” Walker spoke to an audience of about 10 NU students and Evanston residents about the founding principles of Baha’i and the fundamental beliefs of its historical authority figures…

To read the full article, follow this link:

http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/campus/presentation-explains-celebrates-baha-i-history-1.2468876

The public is invited to this event at Northwestern University’s Alice Millar Chapel, Sheridan Road and Chicago Avenue, at 7:00 p. m., Thursday, Dec. 9.

More than 500 members of Amnesty International Group 50 Evanston, Baha’i assemblies from Evanston, Wilmette and Chicago, and the general public are expected. The forum will feature journalist and human rights activist Omid Memarian and University of Chicago Professor Frank Lewis, as well as Persian music and poetry and a call to action.

The Evanston forum will discuss the dismal state of human rights in Iran today, the imprisonment of seven Iranian Baha’i leaders, and the energetic international calls for their release. The seven were recently convicted on false charges, including two capital offenses: espionage for Israel and “spreading corruption on earth.” They were arrested in early 2008, spent their first year in prison without formal charges or access to lawyers, convicted in a closed trial and eventually sentenced to 10 years in prison. Their ordeal triggered vast international reaction including strong statements of concern from the European Union, the United States, Brazil, India, and Canada. Learn more at http://iran.bahai.us.

Evanston forum speaker Omid Memarian is a news analyst, writer and blogger on Iranian and Persian topics. He received Human Rights Watch’s highest honor for courageous activism. Memarian is a Rotary Peace Fellow and former visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He has written for the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post and other media, and blogged since 2002 in English and Persian/Farsi.

Evanston forum speaker Frank Lewis is associate professor of Persian language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He’s deputy director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago and a respected author and speaker on Persian topics. Lewis’s current interests include works in Persian language and literature, medieval Islamic mysticism, Arabic literature, Sufism, translation studies and Iranian religion.

Listen to Omid Memarian interviewed on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview on Dec. 9, 2010.

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