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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Open Wide the Doors - Storytelling\, Memory\, Ag
 ency\, and Resilience
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Raha Sabet Sarvestany\, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani\n\nSELMA
  Centre warmly invites students\, researchers\, scholars\, and members of 
 the wider academic community to join a conversation with Dr. Bahiyyih Nakh
 javani\, one of the English translators of Open Wide the Doors\, the rema
 rkable memoir of renowned Bahá’í poet and writer Mahvash Sabet\, whose
  years of imprisonment in Iran testify to the persecution she endured for 
 her faith.The conversation will explore how personal storytelling can pres
 erve memory\, reclaim agency\, and sustain human dignity under conditions
  of oppression and uncertainty. We will also reflect on the experiences o
 f the Bahá’í community in Iran\, the role of testimony in challenging 
 official narratives\, and the ways resilience can emerge through dignity\
 , compassion\, and human connection.\nThe discussion will draw on selecte
 d passages from the book and explore broader themes of gender\, minority 
 experiences\, exclusion\, agency\, resilience\, and the power of narrative
 .\n \nOnline Zoom link: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/63873181730Meeting I
 D: 638 7318 1730\n\nhttps://eve.utu.fi/event/488/
URL:https://eve.utu.fi/event/488/
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