Lailee Bakhtiar

Lailee Bakhtiar (formerly van Dillen; née McNair) is an American writer, journalist, poet, lecturer

Bakhtiar's latest book of poetry, City Dock Poetry (2014), followed her nonfiction book Afghanistan's Blue Treasure Lapis Lazuli (2011) and her latest novel, They Shake the Desert Sands (2010). Former host of "Authors and Critics" (as Lailee Bakhtiar van Dillen) a television series on PBS, Bakhtiar was born in Washington, D.C. She spoke at The Gulf and The Globe Conference at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.[1]

Bakhtiar spoke at the United Nations at the 2000 UNESCO conference about her month-long camping expedition to the Zagros Mountains in October 2000.[2] In October 2000, she went to Iran to camp with the Bakhtiar tribe for one month in the Zagros Mountains. The themes of East and West are prominent in her works.[3]

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  1. ↑ U.S. Naval Academy website, usna.edu; accessed March 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Making It Happen: Women and the Culture of Peace" (UNESCO/World Peace), un.org, February 25, 2000.
  3. ↑ Profile, iranian.com, April 1998; accessed March 28, 2015.

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