• Traditional Iranian and Kurdish music by the Seattle based group Kamand
• San Francisco’s Niloufar Talebi will perform literary pieces from “Belonging” with musicians Bobak Salehi, Nat Hulskamp, Chaz Hastings, Fabod Sedeh, Basheer Badii and Parisa Rabii
• Classical and modern Persian dance     Children’s activities
• Iranian cuisine      Iran-related book fair
• Iranian art, carpet and other vendors, businesses and non-profit booths such as the American Iranian Friendship Council, which seeks to build on the historical friendship between the citizens of both countries

For more information, contact (503) 523-7368 or email festival@andisheh.org

Or contact the Middle East Studies Center at PSU. For more information, contact Dr. Jean Campbell at (503) 725-8566.

The annual festival is co-sponsored by the American Iranian Friendship Council, Andisheh Center, the Iranian-American Professional Society of Oregon, the Iranian Women’s Association of Oregon, Persia House and the Middle East Studies Center and Iranian Studies Advisory Board at Portland State University.