16/11/2009
YEZIDI EVENT
Tuesday 24th November at 6.30pm
at St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
74 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG
(near Liverpool Street and Bank stations)
We are now able to send you full details of the Yezidi event we are organising about which we alerted you some weeks ago. We hope very much that you will be able to join us for what we think will be a most enjoyable and interesting evening.
The programme will begin at 6.30 with a film about the Yezidi faith followed, at 7.00, by a welcome from Simon Keyes of St Ethelburga's and Sarah Panizzo of Gulan.
From 7.15 onwards the programme will be:
Presentation by Dr Khanna Omarkhali: Yezidism, the Religion of the Peacock Angel
Introduction to Yezidi Music by Nahro Zagros
Panel Discussion chaired by Simon Keyes - with panellists:
Professor Christine Allison, Ibrahim Ahmed, Professor of Kurdish Studies, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
Dr Nelida Fuccaro, Lecturer in Modern History of the Arab Middle East, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Food and Music.
