OU Persian language students will discuss Persian idioms and proverbs.
Thursday, April 18th, at 2 p.m. in Farzaneh Hall, room 145.

#SECTORNEWS

💡The British Council Arts International Collaboration Grants is supporting new cultural collaborations between UK artists, arts professionals and organisations and their peers around the world

➡️ Discover more and apply by 30 April 2024: ietm.org/en/news/member…

Break a leg to our Third Year students who open their show, ‘The Watsons’ tonight at the Jermyn Street Theatre!

Since Saturday morning when Iran’s “morality” police started a fresh round of crackdown on women removing their hijab, ايران اينترنشنال has obtained several videos showing violent arrests of women with “improper” hijab.
This one’s from eastern Tehran.

Break a leg to the cast and all the creatives behind The Girls of Slender Means for your press night at @LyceumEdinburgh! 💖

More details below 👇👇👇

Glad to be back at the RSC to cause some scandal this summer!
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'We have a huge responsibility, the press, our community, and the wider mainstream world of theatre and everything, is to get the language right because it's discriminating, demeaning and awful.'

Jenny Sealey takes a moment to respond to yesterday's Daily Mail article.

🕊️ Let your Peace vote fly - for Wish Tree for Yoko Ono to win the 2024 Webby Award for Technical Achievement. Cast it here: wbby.co/40279N #Webbys

What are you doing today at 1 PM EST / 5 PM GMT? Join our cofounder Hanieh Khosroshahi 🍉 and Karen Patwa for a lively conversation on negotiation for women of colour. See you soon: linkedin.com/events/7184643… #womenofcolour #payequity #negotiation #salaries

Come work with us!

We are looking for three student placements to join the LIFT team from April-June 2024 for our upcoming festival.🎉

Deadline is 28 April for all roles.

📸Jalaikon Caro Gervay

Coming up this week, I’ve three excursions in Europe, inc. debut duo with #FaridaAmadou BozarBrussels 🤘🏽plus two gorgeous gigs with firecrackers victoria shen Maria Chávez 🇵🇸 #TurntableTrio at donaufestival #Austria then #ArchipelFestival #Switzerland #Turntablism #trio #dj #Vinyl

Community groups in Edinburgh are being offered free University room hire, thanks to a new scheme. Local groups will be able to hold meetings, workshops, events and even rehearsals without the financial burden of room hire costs. Edinburgh Local edin.ac/44h9CMN

Digging through 50 years worth of archives can throw up some gems…

A printed second draft of Crave by Sarah Kane, August 1997.

#painesplough50

Presumably the right-wing papers today celebrating their heroine Katharine Birbalsingh's court victory to ban Muslim prayers will be campaigning to end Christian Assemblies and make all schools 100% secular. Otherwise it's just anti-Muslim bigotry. #Papers #r4today

Britain's strictest Headteacher described a court ruling yesterday that her prayer ban is lawful as a 'victory for all schools'.

Katharine Birbalsingh introduced the ban after around 30 pupils began praying in the playground.

The School was taken to court by a Muslim pupil but…

Today we remember Rosalind Franklin who paved the way for the discovery of DNA’s double-helix structure! 🧬🧬

Her achievements continue to inspire #WomenInScience and us all.

#OnThisDay

As global attention is focused on the Iranian military's attack on Israel, authorities in Iran have executed at least 9 prisoners in less than a week.
iranintl.com/en/202404162819

UN Women's latest Gender Alert on the war in #Gaza exposes the heartbreaking impact of the six-month conflict: 10,000 women, including 6,000 mothers killed, leaving 19,000 children orphaned.

Our press release: unwo.men/QaUk50Rgjxj

Do you have a story about the old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary? Submit to Edinburgh International Book Festival's Words from the Wards project! The project celebrates the heritage of the Book Festival's new home at Edinburgh Futures Institute. Find our more and submit ▶️ edin.ac/441EL6C

For decades I've wanted to come here: Oscar Niemeyer's sci-fi, surreal Museum of Contemporary Art in Niteroi.
Rio De Janeiro in the background, throwing its own shapes.