10:30 Registration

Panel Eight – Chair: Mahmoud Aroujian (Farsi)

11:00 Mohsen Haydarian Researcher – Sweden

Iranian Organisations outside Iran

11:30 Asghar Nostarti The National Union of Iranians – Sweden

An introduction to National Union of Iranians in Sweden

12:00 Dr Fereydoun Khavand Lecturer – France

Iranians living outside Iran and the future of Iran’s economy

12:30     Q & A

13:00     Lunch

Panel Nine – Chair: Roya Kashefi (English / Farsi)

13:45 Mojgan Kaahen Psychologist – Belgium

Study – Cultural identity of the young Iranians growing up in Belgium

14:15 Reza Kazemzadeh Psychologist – Belgium

Iranian Language and the children of immigrants

14:45 Film Preview: ‘But you speak such good English!’

by Parisa Taghizadeh and Marjan Safinia

15:15 Break

15:30 Open discussion on points raised in the film as well as other problems facing the young Iranians living outside Iran

The Panel will be made up in alphabetical order:

Omid Jalili

Mojgan Kaahen

Reza Kazemzadeh

Shappi Khorsandi

Parisa Taghizadeh

17:00 Break

Panel Ten – Chair: Mehrangiz Rasapour (Farsi)

17:15 Parvaneh Soltani Scriptwriter - England

’A tale to be told’

17:30 Dr Ali-Mohamad Arbabi Advisor to UNCHR – England

Asylum seekers and Iranian Refugees

18:00 Dr Hossein Ladjevardi Researcher – France

Why "Iranians living outside Iran"

18:30 Break

Panel Eleven – Chair: ACI (Farsi)

18:45 Open Discussion

21:00     Close of Conference