On Bahiyyih Nakhjavani:C’est un grand honneur de vous remettre les insignes de Docteur Honoris Causa de l’Université de Liège
A Baha'i treasure, novelist Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, was honored at the University of Liege recently, as I learned from a "wall" post of the "Baha'i Studies" Facebook group by Erfan. Below are the final remarks from the Discours de Madame Valérie Bada who made the presentation to Bahiyyih. -gw
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Si l’œuvre de Bahiyyih Nakhjavani est écriture du monde, l’auteure quant à elle incarne dans son essence nomade l’écrivain du monde. Issue d’une illustre famille iranienne de confession bahaï, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani a vécu en Ouganda, en Sierra Leone, en Israël, en France, en Angleterre, au Canada et aux Etats-Unis. Cette errance consentie, libératrice et féconde semble procéder de l’intuition d’un identitaire universel puisé dans sa foi bahaï. Ses récits conçoivent une humanité recréée dans une unité salvatrice malgré les différences de langue, religion et race. Et c’est précisément dans cette totalité perçue dans la diversité et garante de liberté contre le totalitaire que s’inscrit la poétique de Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. C’est un grand honneur, Madame Nakhjavani, de vous remettre les insignes de Docteur Honoris Causa de l’Université de Liège.
Erfan also reported in his Facebook post on remarkable comments that the Rector made after the speech by Madame Bada. -gw

And then, to my utter astonishment and confusion, to my amazement and joy, he proceeded to announce, himself, and without the least premeditation, how he felt this distinguished gathering should know that the Baha'i community in Iran was being so severely repressed, and that how Baha'i students were being denied access to education, even now at this very moment when they were about to open the academic year in Liège. He wished to take this opportunity to draw everyone's attention to this fact and to ask for the support of the University of Liège in expressing his indignation at this situation. To deny education to the next generation was utterly unacceptable, he said, and he felt that he had to mention this grave violation of human rights ....
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