Thursday, March 5, 2020
| 55 Plus Meeting The Unfinished Iranian Revolution | |
| Location: | Princeton |
| Time: | 10am |
| Description: | FSML History Club
All Members of FSML are invited
Please contact Carl Rosencrown if you would like to attend. 732-928-0790, carlruth1@hotmail.com
We will leave for Princeton at 8:45 AM
Thursday, March 5 @ 10 a.m.
55PLUS MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
"The Unfinished Iranian Revolution"
Kim Lane Scheppele, Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Princeton University
Date: March 5, 2020; meeting # 605
Topic: The Unfinished Iranian Revolution: What was the revolution about and what it has accomplished?
Speaker: Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Professor of Near Eastern Studies; Director, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University
Our views of the Iranian revolution of 1979 is often shaped by the news reports and the way Iran is represented in the mass media as the nemesis of the U.S. interests in the Middle East. In this talk, I would like to situate this revolution in its historical context and introduce an alternative reading of the relation between the Islamic Republic and the United States.
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Director of Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of three books on different aspects and historical context of the Iranian revolution of 1979 and its aftermath. He has written extensively on the topics of social theory and Islamist political thought in different journals and book chapters. Currently, he is working on a project on Mystical Modernity, a comparative study of philosophy of history and political theory of Walter Benjamin and Ali Shariati.
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