The International Qajar Studies Association (IQSA)
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM
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MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY
(Membership is on a yearly basis and renewable)
Mark one please: (Membership Fees as of 2008)
_____ Life Membership: US $ 1,500.00
_____ Regular Membership: US $ 65.00 (yearly)
_____ Supporting Membership: US $ 150.00 (yearly)
_____ Friends of IQSA Membership: US $ 650.00 (yearly)
_____ Institutional Membership: US $ 200.00 (yearly)
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For detailed description of each membership
category, click here.
Special Offers for Renewing or New Members:
IQSA needs your help to raise funds for 2009 and 2010, our 10 year anniversary celebration.
You can help by selecting to renew your membership with one of the following categories below.
You will receive tokens of appreciation from us as our special "Thank you" to you and your generous
support will help us continue our work to 2010 and beyond!
(Please mark one)
____ "IQSA Friend" Membership: US $ 250.00
(Includes one year membership, a copy of the current year Journal and our gift of Shusha Guppy's The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood.)
____ "IQSA Supporter" Membership: US $ 350.00
(Includes one year membership, a copy of the current year Journal and our gift of Masoud Behnoud's Khanoum; translated into English by Sara Phillips.)
____ "IQSA Benefactor" Membership: US $ 500.00
(Includes one year membership, a copy of the current year Journal and our gifts of Shusha Guppy's and Masoud Behnoud's books.)
____ "IQSA Patron" Membership: US $ 700.00
(Includes one year membership; a copy of the current year Journal, a copy of Persian Poets and our gifts of Shusha Guppy's and Masoud Behnoud's books.)
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Brief descriptions of the gift books for our members:
--Shusha Guppy (nee Assar), who passed away in March of 2008, was representative of generations of Iranians who while deeply steeped in their own traditions and rooted firmly in the soil of Iran, made their way westward and became bridges between the old country and the new ones where they now made their homes. Shusha embodied the best of Iranian culture and the best of Western culture as well. She blended these worlds effortlessly and left us testaments to her talent in her songs and her writings. The Blindfold Horse is a moving example of her evocative power and stirs deep memories in the reader of a bygone era.
--Masoud Behnoud is the consumate storyteller, and once the reader is entangled in Behnoud's web of tales from the past and the present, it becomes increasingly difficult to leave his world to come back to the reality of the reader's own. With his historical novels of Ameeneh (forthcoming in English translation by Sara Phillips in 2010) and Khanoum (Pegasus Press, 2008) Behnoud transports his readers to a time that still looms large in the imagination of Iranians, the Qajar era, and retraces for us the fantastic and often heartrending journeys of his heroines and through them our own. In Khanoum Behnoud speaks to us with such power and beauty about the human spirit in the form of Khanoum that we are left wondering how he could conjure up this mesmerizing voice if she were, indeed, only a fiction of his imagination.
--Persian Poets is a collection of poetry from Omar Khayyam to Sana'i, Attar, Rumi, Hafez, Sa'adi and others, beautifully produced by Everyman's Library Pocket Poets (Afred A. Knopf). It includes portraits by Abol Hassan Ghaffari of of Nasser-ed-Din Shah and Emam Qoli Mirza E'mad-ed-Dowleh (Dowlatshahi) on the dustjacket.
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
In addition to receiving the Journal of the
International Qajar Studies Association (IQSA) and its Newsletter as part
of their membership package, members of the International Qajar Studies Association
also benefit from an array of discounts and special admissions to International
Qajar Studies Association (IQSA) sponsored events such as its Conferences
and Exhibitions, as well as discounts on books, tapes and art work related
to the Qajar era for which the Association will have negotiated a special
discount for its membership. Details on discounts can be found on the "Announcements"
section of the International Qajar Studies Association (IQSA) Table
of Contents.
METHOD OF PAYMENT
(Please choose ONE of the following categories and include this application form with your payment.)