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Represented by:
Lotus Gallery
1211 West Sixth Street, Austin, TX 78703, USA
Phone: (512) 474-1700
LotusGallery

Gallery Show: Dec. 4, 2008-Feb. 28, 2009

Seyhoun Art Gallery
No. 30, 4th Street Khaled Eslamboli (Vozara) Avenue, Tehran, Iran
Phone/fax: (98 21) 8711305

Music contact:
X Dot 25 Music Production
(510) 601-8600

Visual Arts Paintings Illustrations
Design Murals Photography
Music Poetry Theater & Acting
© 2004-2010. Designed by Koorosh Angali, December 2004. All rights reserved. All paintings and other artworks in this site are copyrighted.
For some digital images of the UC Berkeley collection of the Sasanian Seals, photographed by Koorosh Angali, please check the following link: www.ecai.org/sasanianweb


pieta
Pieta, acrylic on canvas, 42" X 36"


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SINGLE SHOW
2008-09 Lotus Gallery, Austin, Texas.
2000 Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
1996 Fortisimo, U. C. Berkeley Department of History of Art (A site specific installation), Berkeley, California.
1995 Introspective, Darvag Community Theater, Berkeley, California.
1993 Mystic Vision, Carrara Cafe-Gallery, Emeryville, California.
1993 The Child Within, A night of Music and Art; Sponsored by The Society Of Iranian Professionals, Cupertino Community Center, Sponsored by Shab-e-Sokhan (an Iranian cultural club event), Cupertino, California.
1991 A night of Literature and Art, Darvag Community Theater, Berkeley, California.

GROUP SHOWS

2008

Paraphernalia, Pump Project Art Complex, during the SXSW season; 8-22 March, Austin, Texas.

2007 EAST (East Austin Studio Tour) , Austin, Texas.
2005 San Francisco Bay Area Open Studio Season , Berkeley, California.
2005 Art As Life As Art, Rancho del Paraiso, Vacaville, California.
2003

Persian Center Fund Raising, Berkeley, California.

2000 Mill and Short Gallery; San Francisco, California.
1997 Alliance of Islamic Arts And Education, San Rafael, California.
1996 Ovissi Gallery Art Contest, first prize winner, Washington, DC.
1994 Northern California Selected Iranian Artists' Exhibition, Sponsored by Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
1993 Northern California Iranian Artists' Exhibition. Sponsored by Iranian Community Center, Redwood City, California.
1993 Highland Hospital Fund Raising Art Show, Oakland, California.
1991 Northern California Iranian Artists' Exhibition, San Jose Lincoln Library . Sponsored by Iranian Community Center, San Jose, California.
1991 Whole Life Expo, Visionary Arts. Sponsored by Gallery Obscura. San Francisco, California.
1990 Whole Life Expo, Visionary Arts. Sponsored by Gallery Obscura. San Francisco, California.
1980 Humboldt State University Annual Juried Show, (first prize winner), Arcata, California.
1977 Simi Valley Annual Art Contest, Simi Valley, California.

To view a selection of paintings please click here


EDUCATION

2004

Ph.D., Iranian Studies, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, California
DISSERTATION: The Angali Dialect: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Glossary.

1998 MA, Iranian Studies, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, California
THESIS: Drakht-i Asurig, (a text in Sasanian Middle Persian): Transliteration, Transcription, Translation, with commentaries.
1980 BA, Fine Arts, Art Department, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California.
1972 BA, Public Relations And Publicity, College Of Social Communication Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

RECENT POSITIONS
1998 to 2006 Lecturer: Persian Syntax and Grammar
University of California, Berkeley
De Anza Community College, Cupertino, California.
2006 to 2008 Senior Research Fellow
University of Texas at Austin.
2009- Associate Professor of Persian Language
DLI, Monterey, California.

LECTURES
2010 From Rumi to Sohrab Sepehris “The Sound of the Footsteps of the Water
The University of Texas at Austin
February 7, 2010.
2010 Rumi: The Mystery if His Religion
Rumi Teach-in Conference,
The University of Texas at Austin
February 6-9, 2010.
2009

Ferdowsi the Reformist and the Case of Women Proposing Marriage
Ferdowsi Teach-In Conference,
The University of Texas at Austin
April 26-29, 2009.

2008 Sadeq Hedayat: the Source of His Imagery
The Seventh Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies,
Sponsored by ISIS (the International Society for Iranian Studies),
Park Hyatt Hotel,
Toronto, Canada,
Thursday, July 31 through Sunday, August 3, 2008.
2008 The Problem of Translation in Todays Iran
The Free Islamic University,
Tehran, Iran,
May 21, 2008.
2008 Ferdowsi in the West
The College of Economics and Management,
Tehran, Iran,
May 18, 2008.
2006 On the Development of the 3rd Singular Copula in Post-Revolutionary Colloquial Persian
The Sixth Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies,
Sponsored by ISIS (the International Society for Iranian Studies),
SOAS (the School of Oriental and African Studies),
London, UK,
August 3-5, 2006.
2006

Implementation of English Transcription in Teaching a Foreign Language
The Third UC Language Consortium Conference on Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspectives,
UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles),
Los Angeles, California,
April 21-23, 2006.

2006

Words of English Origin in the Angali Dialect
University of Texas at Austin,
April 2006.

2004

The Dog
A versified play by Roham Shaikhani and Koorosh Angali, read by Roham Shaikhani (Koorosh departed for Iran the same day)

Sponsored by Intersection for Arts,
San Francisco, California,

Saturday, June 19, 2004.

2004 On the Decipherment of Two Words in the Middle Persian Text of Drakht-i Asurig
Fifth Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies,
Sponsored by The International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS); Cosponsored by The Association for the Study of Persian Societies (ASPS),
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Bethesda, MD,
Friday, May 28 through Sunday, May 30, 2004.
2004 My Parents Are Illiterate
The Second UC Language Consortium Conference on Theoretical & Pedagogical Perspectives,
UCSC (The University of California at Santa Cruz),
Santa Cruz, California,
March 26-28, 2004.
2003

On the Decipherment of Two Words in the Middle Persian Text of Drakht-i Asurig
Department of Near Eastern Studies,
The University of California at Berkeley,
Berkeley, California,
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
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2002 RUMI: The Irreligious Gnostic: An Introduction to Rumi’s biography and philosophy
Sponsored by The World Affair Council,
San Francisco, California,
February 13, 2002.
1997

The Rhetoric Aspects of Drakht-i Asurig
Sponsored by: G. E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, Iranian Studies Program, Campus Programming Committee and UCLA Muslim Student Association,
UCLA (The University of California at Los Angeles),
Los Angeles, California,
Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th of February 1997.


MORE CREDENTIALS

BOOKS
     &

POETRY

In Search Of One’s Own Self. A miscellany of my poetry. Los Angeles/Berkeley: Nashr-e Ketab Publishers, 1995.

Two Centuries of Rubai in Bushehr. A selection of my rubais is included. Tehran: Lyan Publishers, 2007.

Without Any Favors from the Rain. A selection of my poetry in included. Bushehr: Shoru Publishers, 2007.

Persian Online, a comprehensive Persian Syntax and Grammar reference, entirely created electronically for Internet users, under the patronage of the University of Texas at Austin. Created 2006-2008 and launched in fall semester 2009.
URL: http://laits.utexas.edu/persian_grammar/

ARTICLES

“Save the Persian Language!”  Tabarestan Weekly, Tehran, Iran, 2001.

“The Progressive Auxiliary Particle in the Angāli Dialect,” Iranshenasi, Vol. XIX, No. 2, Summer 2007.

“Who Killed Sadegh Hedayat?” Iranshenasi, Vol. XX, No. 3,  Fall 2008.

MUSIC

Koorosh Angali Recites Rumi, Vol. I
X Dot 25 Music Productions, 1997, Berkeley, California.

Composition of an Opera piece and other music tracks for a stage play titled The Three Piglets Opera and Ten Short Stories, written and directed by Roham Shaikhani,1993, Berkeley, California.

Composition of music for the versified play A Sexocialist Manifesto by Roham Shaikhani titled , 2002.

For more , see Music

1972 Winner (second place, Silver Medallion), Iranian universities Music Contest: Guitar Contest and Band Ensemble, Tehran, Iran.
ACTING & PERFORMANCES
2002

The Three Piglets Opera and Ten Short Stories,
Written by Roham Shaikhani
First performance, 1993, directed by Roham Shaikhani
Second performance, 2002, directed by Hameed Ehya

1997

Lysistrata 97! Operation No Penetration,
Written and directed by Torange Yeghiazarian

1997

The Last Supper Comedy,
Written and directed by Farhad Ayish

1997

San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival (with Banafsheh Sayyad and Irene Masharo, The Namah Performance Troop).

1997

Dying, Laughing (with dancer/choreographer Shinichi Momo Koga (inkBoat Butoh Dancers) and Uro Teatr Koku [Japanese Butoh Dancers], 1997, several performances).

1996

The Devil, or The Dagger of Faith,
Written and directed by Roham Shaikhani and Farid Nabavi


AWARDS
2003

Graduate Student Instructors Achievement Award
University of California, Berkeley

1996

Ovissi Gallery Art Contest
Washington, DC
First prize winner

1980 Humboldt State University Annual Juried Show
Arcata, California
First prize winner
1977 Simi Valley Annual Art Show
Simi Valley, California
Second prize winner
1972 Iranian University and College Bands Contest
Babolsar, Iran
Second place: Guitar mastery. (See above.)