[Mitai-announce] Tomorrow! Panel Discussion: the Green Movement and the Future of Iran

[Daniel E. Pritchard]

panel discussion on

*The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's
Future*<http://mhpbooks.com/book.php?id=493>

Friday · February 11 · 7:00 PM
MIT · 6-120 (Building 6 · Eastman Laboratories · First Floor · Room 120) ·
182 Memorial Drive



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February 11 (* *in Persian, *22 Bahman*) will mark the 32nd anniversary of
the Iranian Revolution. The current upheaval in Egypt has occasioned
comparisons<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2011/01/egypts-political-unrest-more-lessons-for-iran.html>to
the 1979 revolution. Join us for this critical dialogue on the
prospects
for the Green movement, the state of the Islamic Republic, and the struggle
for Iran's future, featuring contributors to the new anthology *The People
Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's
Future*<http://mhpbooks.com/book.php?id=493>
:

*
<http://www.stephenkinzer.com/>*
*Michael M.J. Fischer<http://web.mit.edu/anthropology/faculty_staff/fischer/index.html>
* (MIT) · author of *Iran: From Religious Dispute to
Revolution*<http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/2435.htm>(1980) &
*Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the
Transnational Circuitry*<http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=10813&viewby=subject&categoryid=263&sort=title>(2004)
 <http://www.stephenkinzer.com/>* *<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sohrab-ahmari>
*Stephen Kinzer <http://www.stephenkinzer.com/>* (BU) · author of *All the
Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East
Terror*<http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047018549X.html>(2003)
&
*Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future*
<http://us.macmillan.com/reset>(2010)

*Nader Hashemi*<http://www.du.edu/korbel/facultyresearch/faculty/Hashemi_Nader.html>·
author of
*Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for
Muslim Societies<http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ReligionTheology/Islam/?view=usa&ci=9780195321241>
*(2009) & co-editor of *The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the
Struggle for Iran's Future* <http://www.mhpbooks.com/book.php?id=493> (2011)

*Danny Postel* <http://www.iwj.org/detail/person.cfm?person_id=25> · author
of *Reading “Legitimation Crisis” in
Tehran*<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9780976147572>
(2006)
& co-editor of *The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for
Iran's Future* <http://www.mhpbooks.com/book.php?id=493> (2011)

*Sohrab Ahmari* <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sohrab-ahmari> · co-editor
of *Re-Orient *(a forthcoming anthology of essays by young Arab and Iranian
reformers) & contributor to *The Boston Globe, The Guardian,* *The
Huffington Post* and *Tehran Bureau*

*Kelly Golnoush
Niknejad*<http://magazine.columbia.edu/features/spring-2010/dateline-iran>(moderator)
· Editor-in-Chief of *Tehran
Bureau<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/>
*, a “virtual” bureau connecting journalists, Iran experts, and readers all
over the world**
**



"In bringing together these essential texts from and about Iran's Green
movement, Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel have opened the door for critical
engagement with one of the most significant movements in the Middle East
today."* —Orhan Pamuk*

"Words, yes, words and justice and bodies--that's all the Iranian human
earthquake called the Green Movement has had on its side from the start of
is peaceful insurrection. The bodies have been beaten and jailed and
persecuted and the justice is a long time coming, but the words, the
indispensable words that have always been at the heart of that country's
history, the words are finally available in one crucial and moving and
thought-provoking book."* —Ariel Dorfman*

"*The People Reloaded* plunges us into a defining conflict of modern
political history: how nonviolent democratic resistance might succeed in the
face of a repressive regime. Defeat often seems inevitable and change never
seems to come fast enough. And then, all of a sudden, the dam bursts, time
accelerates and nothing can stop it. This welcome volume provides an anatomy
of how this process is unfolding in Iran today, whatever its eventual
outcome."* —Simon Critchley*
*

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