Farideh Goldin and Joyce Hoffman- 39th Annual Literary Festival - "Strange Bedfellows: Politics and Literature"
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- Date/Time
- 09/26/2016 1:30 PM EST - 2:30 PM EST
- Location
- Baron & Ellin Gordon Art Galleries
- Fee
- Free
- Description
- Born in Iran, Farideh Goldin immigrated to the United States in 1975 in search of her imagined America. When political unrest in Iran intensified in 1979, her family was forced to flee Iran on the last flights to Tel Aviv. Her recent memoir, Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile, knits together her father’s story of dislocation and loss with her experience as an Iranian Jew in America. Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman is based on her struggle in balancing her opposing worlds in Iran. In essays and scholarly articles, Goldin explores issues of identity in her own life and the lives of Iranian women writers.
Joyce Hoffmann's long interest in politics spans both her careers in journalism, when she covered presidential elections, and in academia, beginning with her doctoral dissertation, Theodore White and Journalism as Illusion, which explored the intersection of politics and journalism. More recently, her research interests have focused on the historic role of women in journalism with her 2008 book, On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam, and in 2015, her edited collection, Newswomen: Twenty-Five Years of Front-Page Journalism, which spotlights the achievements of women in the profession over the past quarter century.
