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Democracy and Political Participation in the Islamic Republic

A public lecture by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Sunday, March 02, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dodd Hall 121
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA United States

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi is an Assistant Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, who specializes in transnational and global histories in the Middle Eastern postcolonial context.  He studies social movements and intellectual articulations of Islamic conceptions of modernity.  He is currently completing a manuscript entitled Islam and Dissent in Postrevolutionary Iran: Abdolkarim Soroush and the Religious Foundations of Political Reform, to be published by I. B. Tauris & St. Martin’s Press.

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This lecture is part of the Center's Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran.

 

Cost: Free

Special Instructions

Lecture will be presented in Persian.

For more information please contact

Peter Szanton, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Tel: (310) 825-1455
pszanton@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes