چگونگی آگاهی ایرانیان از سلسله های ماد و هخامنشی Until the threshold of the Constitutional Revolution, Iranian historians were unaware of the Medes, Achaemenids, and even Parthian dynasties. There is,…
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Women, Public Spaces, and Social Participation in Iran
Published: November 8, 2021زنان و مشارکت اجتماعی در فضاهای عمومی Since the beginning of the Islamic revolution, Iranian women have been the focus of the Islamization of public spaces. However, this form of…
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Published: November 5, 2021Reza Ghorashi Stockton University Economic Challenges of Ebrahim Raisi Era Amir AghaKouchak University of California, Irvine Status and Prospects of Water and Environmental Management in Iran Roja…
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Published: October 29, 2021Book Talk – Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran
Published: March 8, 2021While much has been written about the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women have been glaringly missing. Women…
Read MoreSocio-Economic Development Strategies and Challenges in Iran
Published: February 1, 2021This panel includes Dr. Khatam’s discussion of Tehran’s urban reforms before and after the revolution, focusing on developmentalism, worlding, and neoliberalism; Professor Ehsani’s studies on the genealogy of large scale…
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Published: January 13, 2021The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran This book talk will provide an overview of Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the…
Read MoreEmbodiment, Power, and Politics in the context of Sigheh Marriages in Modern Iran – Claudia Yaghoobi
Published: November 9, 2020Farahbakhsh’s Zendegi-ye Khosusi (2011) narrates the life story of a former religious zealot, Ebrahim Kiani, who has transformed into a Reformist. Ebrahim has a decent family life, a wife, Forugh,…
Read MoreWater Bankruptcy and Environmental Politics in Iran (A Conversation with Kaveh Madani)
Published: October 5, 2020Frequent droughts coupled with over-abstraction of surface and groundwater through a large network of hydraulic infrastructure and deep wells have escalated Iran’s water situation to a critical level. This is…
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Published: October 4, 2020A Conversation with Kaveh Madani on Environmental Security in Iran and the Middle East Iran and the Middle East are facing a range of environmental challenges: erratic rainfalls, floods, heat…
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