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Movement and the Struggle for Iran's
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Friday, February 11, 2011<br>
7:00-10:00 p.m.<br>
Room 6-120, MIT<br>
(182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge)<br>
open to the public<br><br>
MIT Co-Sponsors: History, Anthropology, STS (Science, Technology,
and <br>
Society), CMS (Comparative Media Studies), and CIS (Center for
<br>
International Studies)<br><br>
<br>
On the 32nd anniversary of the 1979 Revolution, a panel discussion
<br>
about the state of Iran, with Danny Postel and Nader Hashemi
(authors <br>
of "The People Reloaded"
<a href="http://www.mhpbooks.com/book.php?id=493" eudora="autourl">
http://www.mhpbooks.com/book.php?id=493</a> ),<br>
as well as Stephen Kinzer, Michael Fischer, Sohrab Ahmari,<br>
moderated by Golnoush Niknejad (Editor of Tehran Bureau).<br><br>
February 11 is the anniversary of the 1979 revolution in Iran, and
<br>
thus an ideal occasion to take stock of where the Islamic Republic
<br>
stands 32 years on... from its establishment. It has also been a
year <br>
and a half since the emergence of the Green movement, the most
<br>
significant oppositional force to have appeared in the theocratic
<br>
state's history.<br><br>
About the panelists:<br><br>
<b>- Stephen Kinzer</b> is Visiting Professor of International Relations
at <br>
Boston University and a columnist for The Guardian. His books
include <br>
All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East
<br>
Terror (2003), Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from
<br>
Hawaii to Iraq (2006), and Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s
Future <br>
(2010).<br><br>
<b>- Michael Fischer</b> teaches anthropology at MIT. His books include
Iran: <br>
From Religious Dispute to Revolution (1980), Debating Muslims:
<br>
Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition (1990), Mute
Dreams, <br>
Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the <br>
Transnational Circuitry (2004), and Anthropological Futures
(2009).<br><br>
<b>- Sohrab Ahmari</b> is co-editor of Re-Orient, a forthcoming anthology
of <br>
essays by young Arab and Iranian reformers, and a frequent
contributor <br>
to The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Tehran Bureau, and the
Huffington <br>
Post. A law student at Northeastern University, he is a member of
the <br>
American Islamic Congress' New England Council.<br><br>
<b>- Kelly Golnoush Niknejad</b> is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of
Tehran <br>
Bureau, a “virtual” bureau connecting journalists, Iran experts and
<br>
readers all over the world, in partnership with the PBS public
affairs <br>
series FRONTLINE. Her work includes reporting for the Los Angeles
<br>
Times, TIME Magazine, and Foreign Policy.<br><br>
<b>- Nader Hashemi </b>teaches Middle East and Islamic politics at the
Josef <br>
Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.
He <br>
is the author of Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a
<br>
Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (2009) and co-editor,
with <br>
Danny Postel, of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the
<br>
Struggle for Iran's Future (2011).<br><br>
<b>- Danny Postel</b> is the author of Reading “Legitimation Crisis” in
Tehran <br>
(2006) and co-editor, with Nader Hashemi, of The People Reloaded:
The <br>
Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future (2011). He is the
<br>
editor of The Common Review, a contributing editor of Logos, and
<br>
Communications Coordinator for Interfaith Worker Justice.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> For
more information, contact:<br>
Prof. Michael Fischer<br>
617-253-2564<br>
mfischer@mit.edu<br>
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