With the new semester comes the usual activities for the Persian community. We have the Thursday Persian Tables, which is virtually free lunch. There is also reading Mantiq Al-Tayr on Sundays. Every other week we also have a poetry night and then a movie screening.

The poetry night consists of me and another couple plus the organizer who I suppose has to attend. What we do is to search the internet for some poems at the last minute and read them for the other 3. After the gathering tonight I am looking for ways to make it more interesting at least for myself. If it doesn’t work I won’t go anymore.

The movie was good though, worth watching. It was, Tehran Has No More Pomegranates. It was a documentary-comedy movie about the past and present of Tehran. It had a nice satirical view of Tehran. Although like most other films in Iran you feel the director has just spent one afternoon gathering the material but the idea was nice and I liked it.