Farzaneh Milani, who teaches Persian literature and women’s studies at the University of Virginia, has been translating Behbahani’s work for decades. She has said that much of Iran’s history can be studied through Behbahani’s peoms, as her words stir the mind and quench the thirst of those who can only whisper their laments away from the public eye.
Behbahani’s English translator, Farzaneh Milani, a professor at the University of Virginia who specializes in female writers in Iran, spoke to the NewsHour about the prominent poet in 2010. “Simin Behbahani recognizes the power of words, and she has used them to write a different kind of history of Iran. I sincerely believe that the history of the last three decades of Iran, especially after the revolution, can be best studied through her poetry,” said Milani.
"For the last seven decades, she has been the voice — the eloquent, the defiant, the honest voice — of the Iranian people," says Farzaneh Milani, a professor of Persian and Women's Studies at the University of Virginia.
“I will identify her as the most iconic Iranian poet alive,” Farzaneh M. Milani, director of Studies in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia, told The Post in 2006. “I can really say she has become a cultural hero, and she is treated as such outside and inside her country. She reminds me of T.S. Eliot. She dives deep into her culture and literature, and the product is a truly modern outlook on the role of the individual, concern for democracy and human rights. The form is traditional, but the perspective and poetic persona are quite progressive.”
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said veterans in the Old Dominion are politically diverse and don't tend to vote as a block, but their issues can't be ignored. "There are plenty of veterans' votes for both Warner and Gillespie, and no candidate can afford to ignore a tenth or more of the likely voter pool," he said in an e-mail. "It may well be that the final statewide percentages for each in the Senate contest won't be dramatically different than the proportions found in the veteran population."
University of Virginia political scholar Larry Sabato said the current situation was more like the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl by al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 2002. He said it could help bolster a growing perception among Americans that the United States will have to be more aggressive in dealing with Islamic State militants.
Batten School Assistant Dean Gerry Warburg was the featured interview on Midday Briefing with Tim Farley. Among issues covered were the challenge of teaching public policy and leadership, immigration reform, campaign finance, the Supreme Court and separation of powers. See link below.08-18-14 - Gerry Warburg w. Tim (Self-Contained).mp3
Christopher Ruhm is a professor of Public Policy and Economics and associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. He joins Les Sinclair to talk about his research showing that part-time jobs teens translates to higher wages and increased annual earnings in the future.
Professor Ed Hess at University of Virginia’s Darden School offers the business myths of growth and explains, to Les Sinclair, how you can take a FREE online course offered in October.
Neuropsychologist Scott Bender, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia, said in court Monday that the shot exited the top of her skull, causing her to lose her left eye and suffer a traumatic brain injury.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, has had the governor’s race at “likely R” in the center’s Crystal Ball predictions for gubernatorial races across the nation for some time.
By Shira Lurie, a PhD in Early American History at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on popular political dissent in the early American republic. ...For my past-self and the many others like her who are struggling with this decision, I have created a guideline to make wading through the endless information and internal turmoil more tolerable.
Two factors, already embedded deep in the nation's psyche, were driving upward mobility: schooling and moving. From its very beginnings the U.S. was unsurpassed among nations in its zeal for education. Steeped in the values of the Scottish Enlightenment, the Founders were passionately committed to schooling, one of the great engines of social and economic advancement. Jefferson was so proud of his brainchild, the University of Virginia, that he instructed that his role as "Father" of that institution be inscribed on his tombstone as one of his three signal accomplishments—a...
The history of the University of Virginia’s College at Wise as well as plans for its future were highlighted Tuesday during the college’s 60th fall convocation ceremonies.University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan joined UVa-Wise Chancellor Donna Henry in welcoming students to the new academic year, according to a written statement from the college. About 800 students, faculty and staff attended the ceremony in the David J. Prior Convocation Center. Sullivan reminded the crowd that local residents led the charge and convinced UVa officials to open a branch campus in 1954, the...
As anyone in academia knows, change doesn't come easy, especially when it comes to curriculum reform. However, two professors at the University of Virginia (UVA) have taken up the gauntlet, creating an award winning, new course in embedded computing as a first step towards greater hands-on teaching for electrical and computer engineering (ECE) majors. Using TI technology as a centerpiece, the coursework allows third-year students who have completed foundational pre-requisites to problem solve using industry standard components. ...The premise is that traditional engineering cur...
International students traveled from all around the world and landed right here in Charlottesville on the grounds of UVa. With many coming from places like Japan, China and Iran along with a host of other countries. UVa Express is a program geared toward properly embracing international first year and transfer students.
... Now, a study out Tuesday answers one of those lingering questions – can a hookup lead to the altar? For almost one-third (32%) of those in a nationally representative sample, their relationship with their eventual spouse began as a hookup – however the respondents defined it for themselves. "We found that people who said their relationship began by hooking up reported lower marital quality than people who didn't start their relationship by hooking up,"says Galena Rhoades, a research associate professor of psychology at the University of Denver, who is co-aut...
A new report from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia uses a longitudinal survey of recently married American couples to find correlations between spouses’ histories and the quality of their marriage. ...Perhaps surprisingly, it finds that having a formal wedding is associated with being in a happier marriage... Not only are formal weddings correlated with greater conjugal happiness, but having a bigger wedding, as measured by number of guests, was also associated with higher marital quality.