• Welcome Back Lunch (September 18th)
   

• PSA BBQ (September 3rd)
• PSA Hiking Trip
• PSA Beach Trip

Spring2005

• PSA Spring Dinner
• PSA pre-norouz Social
• PSA Norouz Dinner
• PSA Movie Series

• PSA Wecome Back Lunch
• PSA Halloween Party
• PSA Fall Dinner
• PSA Yalda Celebration
• PSA Movie Series

• PSA Summer BBQ

• PSA Spring Dinner
• New Years Party
• MIT I-Fair
• PSA Election BBQ

• PSA Fall Dinner
• Activities Midway
• PSA Annual Halloween Party

• PSA Spring Dinner
• New Years Party
• MIT I-Fair
• PSA Election BBQ

• PSA New Year Party
• Haft Seen table in infinite corridor

• orientation lunch
• Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush lecture organized by ISG
• Nov 7&9th: "Rethinking Persian Modernity" and "Hoveyda and the issue of Modernity in Iran" by Dr.Abbas Milani organized by ISG
• Nov 2: Persian Halloween
• Oct 25: Dr. Mohsen Kadivar: "Who is dictator?" organized by ISG

• International Fair at MIT Featuring a booth by MIT's Persian Student Association Come and check out PSA's booth at MIT's annual cultural fair! We will have Iranian cultural displays and some delicious pastries!
• Dr. Reza Baraheni Lectures in Boston (Organizer Grouhe Yekshanbeh)
  "Democracy and Freedom of Speech and Thought in our Century"
• Lecture by Dr. Edalat "Empowering the Youth in Iran Through ICT"
• Film screening "Color of Heaven"
• Lecture by Dr. Mohsen Kadivar : The Foundation of Political Islam (not a PSA event)
• August 25: Soccer Tournoument

• Welcome Back Orientation Lunch
• Pitfalls of Graduate Study Workshop
• Hiking Trip
• MIT Annual Halloween Party

• Cuisine Night
• Persian New Year
• International Fair
• June 25: Faraj Sarkohi at MIT(not a PSA event)

• December 2, 2000 - Saturday at 5:30pm

  MIT Persian Cuisine Night, Mmmmmm, our delicious dinner was provided by Pitakabob. Location: Twenty Chimneys(3rd floor Student Center). Send an email to persian-officers@mit.edu to sign up for this event. Limited space.

• October 28, 2000 - Friday

  Annual Persian Halloween Party - What a blast!! Everyone danced the night away in their creative costumes with DJ Delbar's incredible dance mixes leading the way.

• September 9, 2000 - Saturday

  Persian Lunch Orientation - Since it was a gorgeous day, we walked over to Moby Dick's for some great Iranian Kabobs.

• If you have any suggestions, PLEASE feel free to e-mail us, we want everyone to be HAPPY! :)

• July 23, 2000 - Sunday, 11am-6pm, MIT

  The Iranian-American Society of New England, in conjunction with the Persian Societies of MIT, BU, and Northeastern University organized a picnic with catering from Pitakabob of Boston. DJ Delbar provided entertainment and there were soccer, volleyball, vasati, and much more.... (Rain date: August 6, 2000).

• January 16, 2000 - Saturday

  PEOPLE from the WHOLE OF BOSTON partook in watching a great soccer match between the US and Iran in a friendly game. It was held in Edgerton House. The final score was 1-1. COOL BEANS!

• February 12, 2000 - Saturday

  We had a Persian Poetry Night followed by a night of feasting out on the town (with your tasty side of poetry). Click more for details.

• March 14, 2000 - Tuesday

  Chahar-Shambe Soori Night! We met up at Ashdown (305 Memorial Drive) and celebrated the sorkhee fire together! AKH JooOOON!!

• March 22, 2000 - Sunday

  Norouz Soccer Night Part I @ 5:15pm (we met up on the 2nd floor of Johnson Gymnasium for our soccer scrimmage and celebrated Norouz with a couple of goals :o)

• March 26, 2000 - Sunday

  Norouz Soccer Night Part II @ 6:15pm on the 2nd floor of Johnson.

• April 21, 2000 - Friday

  The SIAVASH CONCERT....The AWESOMEST Concert ever! (at the Armenian Cultural & Educational Center (ACEC) / 47 Nichols Ave / Watertown, MA. 02472 , doors open at 8pm). He has THE VOICE, THE WORDS, and the FEELING! YOU DEFINITELY didn't want to miss this concert--it was a once in a life-time cultural experience like no other. See the pictures in our photo album!

• May 4, 2000 - Thursday

  Elections were held! CONGRATS to the new officers:
  Nazbeh - President
  Farnaz - Vice President
  Taraneh - Treasurer
  Soosan - Treasurer
  Roya, Ali, Pirouz - Social Chairs
  Mehdi - Email Correspondence
  Nazgol - Webmaster

• September 4, 1999 - Saturday

  We held a scrumptious Welcome to MIT orientation. We had an Indian buffet lunch over at Shalimar's on central square. Lots of water was necessary to quench the burning sensation from the red stuff. It was all good though! If anyone has any questions or if anyone wants to get any advice about the area...just ask persian-officers@mit.edu . If you didn't get a chance to come to this event, don't fret, we got lots more events comin'. We want to welcome all the people especially the new dudes and dudettes to MIT.

• September 11-12, 1999 - Saturday and Sunday

  We held a Persian Game Night with games, food, fun...and had quite the utmost movie night experience the following night!

• October 2, 1999 - Saturday

  Can you say WOWSERS a billion times?? Most of us sure did (in our minds at least) after adventuring the Franconia Circuit up in the White Mountains that sunny Saturday. We ended up hiking 9 miles and pushing ourselves and the sun to the limits. We crossed waterfalls, ate crunchy assortments of cereal and Behrang's energy reviving cake, conquered the Great Wall of China, ran from darkness towards our beloved sun, wondered, took tons of pictures (cuz we wanted to wonder some later), sat near the marshes in total darkness hiding from the mousses, wondered some more, did community service, challenged the speed limits while trying innovative methods of acceleration, chowed down some mceedee's, and sleepily but happily came back to Massachusetts.

• October 16, 1999 - Saturday

  We screened GABBEH (at MIT, 7pm, in Building 1, Room 190 (aka 1-190))

• October 30, 1999 - Saturday

  That Saturday in collaboration with area New England Schools (Harvard, Tufts, Tufts Dental, NEU, Brandeis, Wellesley, BC, UCONN, BU, and UMASS) we presented our Annual Halloween Partay (Location: Walker Memorial)) There is only one adjective that describes this one: AKH JOOOooooOn. The music was most memorable and probably tops the mixes of the 20th century. This was certainly a party ahead of its time. :-)

• December 4, 1999 - Saturday

  We held a DEEEEElicious Persian Cuisine Night at Ashdown Hall where we showcased and tasted the foods from different parts of Iran. VAGHAN lots of thanks goes to Faranak khanoom, Soosan khanoom, and Nazbeh khanoom's mom, Behrang, et al. for making enormous amounts of food for the event. MERCI 1000 times!

• December 17, 1999 - Friday

  "EMPOWERING THE YOUTH OF OUR HOMELAND: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE INTERNET FOR EDUCATION IN IRAN"-- A Presentation by Professor Abbas Edalat, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College, London. Location: MIT, 4-231 (Building 4, Room 231) 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. Time: 7pm.

• August 22, 1999 - Sunday

  We held PSA's first ever bbq in the drizzle. The weather tried to get us down, but we boldly stood up and kept the fire going thanks to the awesome fire-engineering efforts of Behrang, Payman, and Sohrab. We feasted on the most delicious kabobs and rice ever in PSA history thanks to Nazbeh's marination expertise. And we held an interesting taboo-session and created our own version of it where we witnessed mystical dancing and saved humanity. A stimulating bbq. :)

• August 27, 1999 - Friday

  We watched a documentary on Iran and a film entitled "Unbearable Lightness of Being" while we feasted on Bertucci's bbq pizza. As you can tell we can't get enough bbq. The film received mixed reviews; the older crowd loved it, while the others 'taamohl'ed it. Next time we'll try some mainstream stuff :o>

• February 15, 1999 - Monday

  Iranian Comedy Night was held where current comedies that are playing in Iran were shown on the Big Screen in Ashdown. The comedic videos filled the room with laughs and Bertucci's filled our stomach's with acid. :)

• February 20, 1999 - Saturday

  We have a GREAT event lined up for you...yummy food...great poetry experience... and great music. It is *the* "Noon o Paneer o Sabzee - She'r Party"

• April 4, 1999 - Sunday

  We picnicked on a breezy Sizdeh Bedar day, playing soccer, eating baghalee polo and chicken, sipping warm tea, and looking to the future.

• April 17, 1999 - Saturday

  MOHmmmETTE!! We held the inciteful DAeeeeeei Jan Napolean Film Festival over a span of three days and learned much from AMU Astola's insights and Daei Jan's fears.

• April 18, 1999 - Sunday

  DAeeeeeei Jan Napolean Film Festival continued

• April 19, 1999 - Monday

  DAeeeeeei Jan Napolean Film Festival

• April 23, 1999 - Friday

  We had a booth at the International Fair, which was held indoors this year in Johnson. We now know that the outdoors definately rocks!

• April 30, 1999 - Friday

  We held elections! CONGRATS to our new officers!!!
  President - Nazbeh
  Treasurer - Soosan
  Secretary - Sohrab
  Funding Raising Chair - Homayoun
  Social Chairs - Behrang, Pirouz, and the Navigator
  After all that excitement we watched the last episode of Daeeei Jan!! WOW!! Wish there were more!!!

• May 14, 1999 - Friday

  1st PICNIC of the semester!! The dark clouds finally went away and the buuTeeful sun surfaced. We had some DeEEElicious food cooked by the master of joojeh kabob himself...SOhRaB da man :>. Kheily khosh gozasht. Thanks mucho to those that helped and made this semesters events fun. 10-4.

Fall 1998

• August 29, 1998 - Saturday

  PSA held an orientation lunch buffet for continuing and new students. There is no better way to start the semester, than with a full stomach.

• September 24, 1998 - Thursday

  "Iraneh Bastan" documentary. We showed a 3-hour tape "Iraneh Bastan" covering the history of Iran up to the beginnings of Islam.

• October 25,1998 - Sunday

  The Life and Poetry of Forough Farrokhzad.
  In this 3-hour program we showed a documentary film on Forough and a short film directed by her. The creator of the documentary, Mansooreh Saboori, shed light on the importance of Forough in Iranian poetry and history by presenting her work as well as Farrokhzad's film, The House is Black.

• October 30, 1998 - Friday

  Halloween Party: Persian STYLE.

• December 17, 1998 - Thursday

  We held a pre-Shabeh Yalda night where we celebrated the day that was almost the shortest day of the year. On this day very close to the sun's b-day, we rejoiced with sharbateh AlbaLOO, cracked various nuts, cracked jokes, munched on sabzee/cheese/grapes with taftoon, and enjoyed Behrang's delicious loubia polo.

• July 17, 1998 - Monday

  We held our first Iranian movie night. We watched the film "Key-Leet" at Edgerton House at 8pm. In this film, we witnessed the trials of a lady who was trying to reach her young children, who were locked in a dangerous apartment.

• July 27, 1998 - Thursday

  PSA went on tour to the big apple, New York City, where we visited the Iranian Street Festival hosted by Iranian TV.

• July 31, 1998 - Monday

  We held a very delicious and entertaining barbeque at the Edgerton BBQ pitts. TRULY a khoshMAzeh ghormeh sabzi!

• April 24, 1998 - Friday

  During International-Fair 1998 (aka I-fair), we had a booth that introduced Persian culture and delicious pastries to the MIT community.

• May 9, 1998 - Saturday

  The first annual PSA elections happened. The results of which were:
  President: Navid
  Secretary: Sohrab
  Treasurer: Soosan
  

• May 15, 1998 - Friday

  The 2nd general PSA meeting occured where the constitution was discussed very briefly and endorsed. Then we had our 1st annual dinner. Kheily khosh gozast doostan! Omidvaram keh az een roozhah beeshtar basheh. And we look forward to making more people happy in the future