Funny Times: Drawing Cartoons from Fatherhood to Fatherland

Date
Thu January 15th 2026, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Event Sponsor
Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies
Event is open to
Everyone
Experience Type
In-Person
Location
In person at Stanford

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Navied Mahdavian

New Yorker cartoonist, Navied Mahdavian, will discuss how he finds humor outside the pages of the New Yorker: as a new father, as the child of Iranian immigrants, and most importantly, as a man approaching 40.

Navied Mahdavian is a New Yorker cartoonist and writer. His debut memoir, This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America (Chronicle Books, 2023), chronicled his three years in rural Idaho during the first Trump presidency and was an NPR, Barnes and Noble, and New Yorker book of the year. He has received fellowships from MacDowell and La Napoule and has been a featured speaker at TED and on The Moth Radio Hour.

Part of the Stanford Festival or Iranian Arts

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