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Contemporary Iraqi Film Start: 7:00 pm End: 7:00 pm http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eaU3Btqyt5w . (click to watch trailer) . . HATIF: A REAL BEING OR A LITERARY DEVICE Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:00 pm Dr. Pourjavady is a leading scholar on Persian-Islamic mystical and philosophical manuscripts He will talk about the idea of "Hatif" in Persian literature and show how hatif was thought of as a real being in early Islamic literature and then gradually became simply a litrary device.