The Near East Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division
at the Library of Congress

AND

Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland

Present:

“The Persian Book Lecture Series” 2016 Focus: Literature and Performing Arts

Lecture and Book Signing by

Dr. S. Frederick Starr, speaking on his book “Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane”

Thursday, May 5th, 2016

12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building,

African Middle Eastern Reading Room, LJ-220

10 First Street, S.E. Washington, D.C. 20003

Free and Open to the Public

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