Ilex Foundation promotes the study of humanistic
traditions that derive from the civilizations of the Mediterranean
and Near East, and is dedicated to disseminating the research
it promotes through the application of information technology.
Ilex is a non-governmental organization dedicated to purely
intellectual agenda. See Ilex
Mission for more information.
Announcements
ILEX is please to announce the 15th Iranian Film Festival
at the MFA Houston, January 2008. The festival, supported
by ILEX, features six new films and discussions on selected
nights, led by the noted writer, Farnoosh Moshiri. Following
screenings at the MFAH on January 18-20 and 25-27, the festival
moves to Rice Cinema (Feb 1-2) and Aurora Picture Show (Feb.
9-10), (aurorapictureshow.org).
More
information on the Iranian Film Festival
ILEX is pleased to note the "Walls of Martyrdom: Tehran’s
Propaganda Murals" symposium, with panel disussions
that took place in Cambridge on May 18, 2007. Cosponsored
by Harvard University Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
and Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School,
the symposium contextualized a photo exhibit by Fotini Christia.
See wallsofmartyrdom.com
and iranian.com
for more.
The 13th Boston Festival of Films from Iran and the Annual
ILEX Foundation Award for Excellence in Iranian Cinema,
2006. Sponsored by the MFA Film Program, our most extensive
showcase ever of contemporary Iranian cinema took place
on November 10-December 3, 2006, at Remis Auditorium, Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston.
Niki Karimi, acclaimed actor and director, received the
Annual ILEX Foundation Award for Excellence in Iranian Cinema
at the festival.
Highlights and photos.
ILEX Foundation presented
a panel at the 40th Anniversary of MESA's annual conference,
held in Boston, MA, in November 2006. The ILEX panel was
entitled "Cunning Words: Hila or How To Do Things with
Tricks."
More on the Ilex panel.
Visit
the MESA web site.
At the 2006 International
Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) 6th Biennial Meeting
in London, England, ILEX Foundation was invited to present
a panel entitled "Ethics in Iran: Historical and Literary
Perspectives."
More on the Ilex panel.
Ilex Foundation is pleased
to support Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography
from Iran, the first survey of contemporary Iranian
photography presented in the United States.
The exhibition — developed by Hamid Severi for the
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, and Gary Hallman of the
Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota — provides
a rare, revealing view of Iranian life and experiences with
more than 80 photographs by renowned Iranian photographers.
The exhibition travels to various locations from October
2005 to January 2008. Click
here for a catalog, which includes an exhibition schedule.
Details are also available at the International
Arts & Artists web site.
See the Cultural
Events page for more on film screenings, awards, and
other events sponsored by Ilex Foundation.
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