This site has been created as a digital Festschrift in honor of
Olga (Holly) Davidson on the occasion of her sixty-sixth birthday.
About
Hollyfest, www.TheHollyfest.org
First edition: 2018.02.11
Welcome to the site celebrating the 66th birthday of
Olga M. Davidson, 11 February 2018, at www.TheHollyfest.org , featuring a wide variety of projects contributed by a wide variety of people who know Holly. Some of the contributors have not yet finished their project for publication in the first edition of 2018.02.11, but the editors are giving them additional time for getting their material ready to join online the projects that are already published in the edition here.
Those not yet contacted who might wish to add your own comments or wishes are welcome to send them to the editors, care of
Niloofar Fotouhi, nf@ilexfoundatiopn.org.
An announcement is forthcoming about the time and place for a “live” celebration.
Editor-in-Chief: Niloofar Fotouhi
Editors: Richard Bulliet, Christopher Dadian, Michael Pregill,
Marianna Shreve Simpson, Sunil Sharma
Web Producer: Noel Spencer
Contributions
Firuza Abdullaeva and Charles Melville, “Illustrating cross-culturalism in text and image: Zulaykha, Phaedra, Sudaba, Venus, Potiphar’s wife, and other femmes fatales”
Nick Allen, “KHANNĀS and KACA: An Indo-Iranian Comparison”
Richard Anooshian, “Highlights from 1975 to 1977”
Mohsen Ashtiany, “A Fine Kettle of Fish”
Farhad Atai, “Central Asia as Viewed from Tehran: 1992-2001″
Thomas Barfield, “A Bazaar Day: Imam Sahib 1976”
Ann Bergren, “Card”
Sheila Blair, “Wine, women and song: A pictorial tribute to Holly Davidson”
Jonathan Bloom and Wheeler Thackston, Schubert’s Rondo in D, “Notre amitié est invariable,” (D608) for piano 4-hands”
Richard Bulliet, “Jackass Memories”
Sheila Canby, “Birds and Beasts in the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp”
H. E. Chehabi, “Notes on Maltese”
The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, “A Birthday Note”
Aryeh Cohen, “A Talmudic diptych”
Jeri Cohen, “Ode to Olga aka Holly”
Juan Cole, “Rubaiyat” (translation)
Touraj Daryaee, “Queen Dēnag at the Royal Investiture”
David F. Elmer, “The Integral Odyssey”
Massoud Farivar, “Portrait of a Culturally Immersive Scholar”
Niloo Fotouhi, “Superwoman & Thundergirl!”
Douglas Frame, “Heracles in Ionian Epic: Genesis of the ‘Sack of Oikhalia‘”
Wendy Franco Almquist, Clip from Swan Song
William Granara, “Elegies to a Slavegirl: Love and Exile in the Poetry of Ibn Hamdis”
Jo Guldi, “Reminiscence…”
Maisie Houghton, “Thoughts on Holly”
Sukru Ilicak, “Ottoman DJ’s Very Special Super Trail Mix for Holly”
Pierre-Yves Jacopin, “Notes Sur la mythologie”
Maz Jobrani, “Greetings”
Stefan Kamola, “A song of all heroes”
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, “Professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland, interviewed by Dr. Homayun Alam, Georg August University Göttingen, May-September 2007”
Alan Khazei, “Short Film”
Margaret Sears Lindley, “Reminiscence…”
Shaul Magid, “On the Tigris and the Euphrates”
Louise Marlow, “The Wisdom of Buzurgmihr in Mustawfī’s Tārīkh-i guzīdeh”
Ulrich Marzolph, “A Nineteenth-century Shâhnâma: Mîrzâ ‘Alî-Qulî Khû’î’s Lithographed Illustrations to the Epic’s first Iranian Edition”
John McDonald, “The Oath of Tyndareus and the Nuptials of Nahid: Equine Elements of Marriage by Choice in Greek and Persian Epic Tradition”
Maureen N. McLane, “H-O-L-L-Y N-A-G-Y / O-L-G-A D-A-V-I-D-S-O-N”
Steve Mitchell, “Reminiscence…”
Sarah Morris, “Partners in Crime: A Life in Latin with Holly Davidson”
Leonard Muellner, “Eins ist keins, zwei ist eins, drei ist alles: A Metonymic Interpretation of the Rule of Three in Epic”
Eden Naby, “Calligraphy Arts of Iran’s Ethno-Religious Minorities”
Antonia Nagy, “Mummy” (with soundtrack by Wes Aldrich)
Blaise Nagy, “Build It and They Will Come”
Gregory Nagy, “What GN owes OMD”
Joseph Falaky Nagy, “Only the Lonely”
Laszlo Nagy, “Post Chuck Norris Iran Begins with My Mom”
Desiree Navab, “Philos/Doost,” Image Dedication
Elaine Papoulias, “Holly,” A Haiku
Trita Parsi, “There’s Something About Holly”
Yiannis (J. C. B.) Petropoulos, “Wishing upon…a wine cup”
Ginan Rauf, “Olga Davidson’s life in her own voice, as channeled by Ginan Rauf”
Nancy Marlowe Reimer, “A Beautiful Friendship”
Shulamit Reinharz, “Opening the Door to Muslim Women Scholars and Activism at Brandeis”
Khodadad Rezakhani, “Shahnameh as a Historical Source, 1: The Türk and the Hephthalites”
Sunil Sharma, “Qajar Women in Travel Literature by British Women”
Marianna Shreve Simpson, “A Covert Creature in Princeton’s ‘Great Persian Book of Kings’”
Laura Slatkin, “For Holly: looking back, looking ahead”
Alessandra Stanley, “babeungsroman in black and white”
Keith Stone, “The Song of Moses as a test case for diachrony”
Sassan Tabatabai, “Qazal”
Ruth Taylor, “Shade Garden, Campus of the CHS”
Peter and Elizabeth Thomson, “82 Revere Street”
James Uden, “Conserving the Classical Past: Elizabeth Carter, ‘On his Design of Cutting Down a Shady Walk’ (1745)”
Neguin Yavari, “The Shah’s Empress and the Ayatollah’s Qods-e Iran: Public Lives, Private Letters in 20th Century Iran“
Contributions
Firuza Abdullaeva and Charles Melville, “Illustrating cross-culturalism in text and image: Zulaykha, Phaedra, Sudaba, Venus, Potiphar’s wife, and other femmes fatales”
Nick Allen, “KHANNĀS and KACA: An Indo-Iranian Comparison”
Richard Anooshian, “Highlights from 1975 to 1977”
Mohsen Ashtiany, “A Fine Kettle of Fish”
Farhad Atai, “Central Asia as Viewed from Tehran: 1992-2001″
Thomas Barfield, “A Bazaar Day: Imam Sahib 1976”
Ann Bergren, “Card”
Sheila Blair, “Wine, women and song: A pictorial tribute to Holly Davidson”
Jonathan Bloom and Wheeler Thackston, Schubert’s Rondo in D, “Notre amitié est invariable,” (D608) for piano 4-hands”
Richard Bulliet, “Jackass Memories”
Sheila Canby, “Birds and Beasts in the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp”
H. E. Chehabi, “Notes on Maltese”
The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, “A Birthday Note”
Aryeh Cohen, “A Talmudic diptych”
Jeri Cohen, “Ode to Olga aka Holly”
Juan Cole, “Rubaiyat” (translation)
Touraj Daryaee, “Queen Dēnag at the Royal Investiture”
David F. Elmer, “The Integral Odyssey”
Massoud Farivar, “Portrait of a Culturally Immersive Scholar”
Niloo Fotouhi, “Superwoman & Thundergirl!”
Douglas Frame, “Heracles in Ionian Epic: Genesis of the ‘Sack of Oikhalia‘”
Wendy Franco Almquist, Clip from Swan Song
William Granara, “Elegies to a Slavegirl: Love and Exile in the Poetry of Ibn Hamdis”
Jo Guldi, “Reminiscence…”
Maisie Houghton, “Thoughts on Holly”
Sukru Ilicak, “Ottoman DJ’s Very Special Super Trail Mix for Holly”
Pierre-Yves Jacopin, “Notes Sur la mythologie”
Maz Jobrani, “Greetings”
Stefan Kamola, “A song of all heroes”
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, “Professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland, interviewed by Dr. Homayun Alam, Georg August University Göttingen, May-September 2007”
Alan Khazei, “Short Film”
Margaret Sears Lindley, “Reminiscence…”
Shaul Magid, “On the Tigris and the Euphrates”
Louise Marlow, “The Wisdom of Buzurgmihr in Mustawfī’s Tārīkh-i guzīdeh”
Ulrich Marzolph, “A Nineteenth-century Shâhnâma: Mîrzâ ‘Alî-Qulî Khû’î’s Lithographed Illustrations to the Epic’s first Iranian Edition”
John McDonald, “The Oath of Tyndareus and the Nuptials of Nahid: Equine Elements of Marriage by Choice in Greek and Persian Epic Tradition”
Maureen N. McLane, “H-O-L-L-Y N-A-G-Y / O-L-G-A D-A-V-I-D-S-O-N”
Steve Mitchell, “Reminiscence…”
Sarah Morris, “Partners in Crime: A Life in Latin with Holly Davidson”
Leonard Muellner, “Eins ist keins, zwei ist eins, drei ist alles: A Metonymic Interpretation of the Rule of Three in Epic”
Eden Naby, “Calligraphy Arts of Iran’s Ethno-Religious Minorities”
Antonia Nagy, “Mummy” (with soundtrack by Wes Aldrich)
Blaise Nagy, “Build It and They Will Come”
Gregory Nagy, “What GN owes OMD”
Joseph Falaky Nagy, “Only the Lonely”
Laszlo Nagy, “Post Chuck Norris Iran Begins with My Mom”
Desiree Navab, “Philos/Doost,” Image Dedication
Elaine Papoulias, “Holly,” A Haiku
Trita Parsi, “There’s Something About Holly”
Yiannis (J. C. B.) Petropoulos, “Wishing upon…a wine cup”
Ginan Rauf, “Olga Davidson’s life in her own voice, as channeled by Ginan Rauf”
Nancy Marlowe Reimer, “A Beautiful Friendship”
Shulamit Reinharz, “Opening the Door to Muslim Women Scholars and Activism at Brandeis”
Khodadad Rezakhani, “Shahnameh as a Historical Source, 1: The Türk and the Hephthalites”
Sunil Sharma, “Qajar Women in Travel Literature by British Women”
Marianna Shreve Simpson, “A Covert Creature in Princeton’s ‘Great Persian Book of Kings’”
Laura Slatkin, “For Holly: looking back, looking ahead”
Alessandra Stanley, “babeungsroman in black and white”
Keith Stone, “The Song of Moses as a test case for diachrony”
Sassan Tabatabai, “Qazal”
Ruth Taylor, “Shade Garden, Campus of the CHS”
Peter and Elizabeth Thomson, “82 Revere Street”
James Uden, “Conserving the Classical Past: Elizabeth Carter, ‘On his Design of Cutting Down a Shady Walk’ (1745)”
Neguin Yavari, “The Shah’s Empress and the Ayatollah’s Qods-e Iran: Public Lives, Private Letters in 20th Century Iran“
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