Upcoming sessions(2008)

  • 12th. Feb.: CafeLitt First Photo awards and Second Birthday. A Party till midnight
  • 19th Feb.: From Margine to center by Amir Khadir
  • 26 Feb.: Global Financial crisis 2008. The end of an era?! by Ali Paknejad
  • Sunday 8th. March: BOOKCLUB, Disgrace By J.M.Coetzee

24.9.08

CafeCinema II: IRAN: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION


Movie: IRAN: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION (2006)
Directed by:
Nader Takmil Homayoun
Presented by:
Bardia Sadinejad

Date: 18:00 Sunday 28th 2008 at MEKIC:
Address:Maison d'Edition Ketabe Iran Canada Inc., 4438, rue de la Roche, Montreal (Quebec) H2J 3J1
Metro: Mont-Royal

MEKIC Enterence: 5$
(If you have participate the previous time, you can just show your last ticket)

This session will be in English

22.9.08

CafeLitt 90:CafeThéâtre I; "Death Of Yazdgerd"



Subject: CafeThéâtre I; Play Reading of "Death Of Yazdgerd" written by Bahram Beyzai
Date: Thursday 25th Sept. , 20:00
Presented by:
Bardia Sadinejad, Solmaz Sharifian, Azam Heydari, Maziar Bab,Mehdi Keshtkar, Mohammad Larijani,Reza Assasi

Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town

17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria

12.9.08

CafeLitt 89: Ecotourism in Iran


Subject: Ecotourism in Iran
Date: Thursday 18th Sept. , 20:00
Presented by: Negar Ghadimi

Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town

17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria

According to The International Ecotourism Society, beginning in 1990s, ecotourism has been growing 20% - 34% per year in the world. In 2004, ecotourism and nature tourism were growing globally three times faster than the tourism industry as a whole. This new industry has also affected Iran and made government and private businesses to take advantage of this opportunity. Because of climate variety and considerable biodiversity, Iran has a good potential for ecotourism development; however, since the main challenge of ecotourism is its sustainability there is a fear among people who are trying to conserve Iran's nature about possible negative impacts of ecotourism on Iran's environment if it is executed without complete respect to accepted principles and policies. If conducted in a true way, ecotourism can be a powerful tool to save small communities cultures, shrinking ecosystems and their wildlife.

8.9.08

CafeLitt 88: September 11th. roots and consequence



Subject:
September 11th. attacks roots and consequence

Date: Thursday 11th Sept. , 19:00
Presented by: Kianoosh Hashemzadeh,
Mona Tajali, Roksana Bahramitash
Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town

17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria


This session 9/11 we will talk about the 11th September attacks of 2001 , its roots and consequences.
We try to cover most of the aspects of this attacks by several talks (Eaxh around 10-20 min.) and a movie.

Kianoosh Hashemzadeh, will start the session.Her talk will include an overview of the chain-of-events of 9/11,
followed by a brief summary of "conspiracy" theories which offer different ides of how this event "actually" happened.

Mona Tajali
, will talk about the terrorism in the Middle East and looked at the causes that the youth joins such fundamentalist groups, and their links to the Wahhabi School of thought, and the fact that most members are born and raised in the West.

Roksana Bahramitash,PhD ,will talk about the consequences of this attacks.She is going to be discussing her paper:
The War on Terror, Feminist Orientalism and Orientalist Feminism: Case Studies of Two North American Bestsellers,"Critique: Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.14, No 2, 223-237, Summer 2005. Her paper focuses on how, due (in part) to the environment created post-9/11, Muslim women have been portrayed in problematic ways. She looks at two American bestsellers: Reading Lolita in Tehran and Nine Parts of Desire.

At the end we will watch a short Movie about 9/11 and coninue the session with discussions.

2.9.08

CafeLitt 87: The Wild Book (KETAB_e VAHSHI)



Subject: The Wild Book (KETAB_e VAHSHI)
Date: Thursday 3rd Sept. , 19:00
Presented by: Hossein Sharang

Palce: Cine-Express ,1926 Rue Ste-Catherine O, Montreal
Metro Guy-Concordia or Atwater

For more information you can enlarge the following text that is an introduction by Mr. Sharang by clicking on it.