Stanford Iranian Studies Program
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The Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies fosters the interdisciplinary study of Iran as a civilization. Each academic year, the Program offers undergraduate courses related to Iran in such disciplines as language, literature, economics, and political science. It provides a wealth of events for scholars, students and the general public, which include conferences, symposia, forums, lectures and performances. Listen to one of our podcasts or check out our youtube channel to discover Iran!
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The Psychology of Revolution with Fathali Moghaddam | This lecture is based on Dr. Fathali M. Moghaddam’s new book "Psychology of Revolution" (Cambridge University Press, 2024) devoted to understanding the psychology of revolution—the first since Gustav Le Bon’s now classic book of 1894. Fathali Mog | 8/17/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Abbas Milani: Shahrnush Parsipur, In Memoriam | Shahrnush Parsipur (1946-2026) was an acclaimed and award-winning author, and the recipient of the ninth Bita Prize in Persian Arts from Stanford University. Dr. Mandana Zandian prepared this video for the memorial event hosted by Stanford Iranian Studi | 7/31/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Farzaneh Milani, At the Threshold of Being and Not Being: The Living Absence of Shahrnush Parsipur | Shahrnush Parsipur (1946-2026) was an acclaimed and award-winning author, and the recipient of the ninth Bita Prize in Persian Arts from Stanford University. Dr. Farzaneh Milani prepared this video for the memorial event hosted by Stanford Iranian Studi | 7/31/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mandana Zandian: Always Passing Through | Shahrnush Parsipur (1946-2026) was an acclaimed and award-winning author, and the recipient of the ninth Bita Prize in Persian Arts from Stanford University. Dr. Mandana Zandian prepared this video for the memorial event hosted by Stanford Iranian Studi | 7/31/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Maryam Zandi: Shahrnush Parsipur, In Memoriam | Shahrnush Parsipur (1946-2026) was an acclaimed and award-winning author, and the recipient of the ninth Bita Prize in Persian Arts from Stanford University. Maryam Zandi prepared this video for the memorial event hosted by Stanford Iranian Studies on J | 7/31/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mojdeh Shamsaie: Shahrnush Parsipur, In Memoriam | Shahrnush Parsipur (1946-2026) was an acclaimed and award-winning author, and the recipient of the ninth Bita Prize in Persian Arts from Stanford University. Dr. Mandana Zandian prepared this video for the memorial event hosted by Stanford Iranian Studi | 7/31/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Shirin Neshat: Shahrnush Parsipur, In Memoriam | Shahrnush Parsipur (1946-2026) was an acclaimed and award-winning author, and the recipient of the ninth Bita Prize in Persian Arts from Stanford University. Shirin Neshat prepared this video for the memorial event hosted by Stanford Iranian Studies on | 7/31/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Iranian Oil Crisis and Mossadegh in the Cold War, 1951-1953 with Jamil Hasanli | May 14, 2026 In the early 1950s, there were two hot spots of the Cold War: Korea and Iran. Iranian oil had become a firebomb of the Cold War in the Middle East. It was the first oil crisis of the Cold War. The central figure of the dramatic events of 1 | 5/14/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Iran in Transition: Iran’s Security Forces and the Future of Political Order with Saeid Golkar | May 1, 2026 This lecture examines the role of Iran’s security forces in shaping the country’s political future amid deep uncertainty. Focusing on the IRGC, the Basij, and the broader coercive apparatus, it analyzes these institutions not only as in | 5/1/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Myth of Maximum Pressure on Iran with Matin Mirramezani and Sam Samani | This is a recording of a webinar held by the Stanford Iranian Studies Program on April 15, 2026. This discussion evaluates the conventional wisdom surrounding U.S. sanctions on Iran. The paper in discussion from the Stanford Iran 2040 Project is availab | 4/22/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Tahira Qurrat al-'Ayn's Sisters of the Pen: Some Early Babi Women Poets with Dominic Brookshaw | April 22, 2026 Fatima Baraghani, who is better known to history by her Shaykhi epithet, Qurrat al-‘Ayn, and her Babi penname, Tahira, was born in Qazvin in 1814 and executed in Tehran in 1852. A prominent follower first of Sayyid Kazim Rashti (d. 184 | 4/22/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Whither Iran: Stanford Scholars and Students on Current Developments and Trajectories | February 4, 2026 Panel discussion with Stanford scholars and students to discuss current events related to Iran. Cosponsored by the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. PANELISTS (in order of appearance) Larry Diamond is a senior fellow | 2/4/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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City of Unrest: A Geolocated Archive of Protests in Tehran (2009-2023) | February 2, 2026 Mohsen B. Mesgaren Matin Mirramezani Mohsen Amiri Read the report: http://goto.stanford.edu/tehranprotests The contemporary history of Iran has been closely bound up with recurring waves of large-scale protests. From those precedin | 2/2/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Untold Stories of Ten Thousand Years of Iran’s History | January 22, 2026 In this talk Prof. Ghadiri will discuss the beginnings of history and civilization in Iran based on recent scholarly theories; an examination of the causes behind the neglect of Iran’s authentic ancient past—one that extends far be | 1/22/2026 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Friendship That Never Was: Iran-Saudi Relations from 1968 to 1979 | December 2, 2025 Contrary to the widely held narrative portraying Iran and Saudi Arabia as cooperative partners during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, recently declassified diplomatic records and personal accounts from those close to the Shah r | 12/2/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Poisonings of Schoolgirls in Iran: An Open-Source Investigation | October 30, 2025 Speakers: Bailey Ulbricht, Allen Weiner, and Mobina Riazi. Read their report: https://law.stanford.edu/publications/school-poisonings-in-iran-an-open-source-investigation/ On November 30, 2022, in the midst of protests around the count | 10/30/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Sunbird and the Story of Kanun with Lily Amir-Arjomand and Mandana Zandian | October 24, 2025 The Sunbird and the Story of Kanun: Revisiting the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Iran In 1965, a visionary proposal by Lily Amir-Arjomand to Queen Farah Pahlavi—to establish a library for c | 10/24/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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15th Bita Prize for Persian Arts: Hossein Amanat | October 4, 2025 Hossein Amanat established his international reputation in 1966 when, as a recent graduate, he won a nationwide competition to design the Shahyad (now Azadi) Monument in Tehran—an architectural icon that has since become a symbol of mo | 10/4/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Czechoslovakian Architects and Engineers of Reza Shah Pahlavi | From 1932 to 1948, architects and engineers from the First Republic of Czechoslovakia, working under Skoda Works of Plzen, partnered with the Iranian government led by Reza Shah Pahlavi to support the country's ambitious modernization program. This coll | 10/2/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book Talk: On The Rocky Road Of Life | September 5, 2025 On The Rocky Road Of Life is the richly detailed personal and professional memoir of Zakaria Hashemi—an artist whose life story unfolds across the alleys and seasons of Tehran, from the scorching heat to the biting cold, from the sou | 9/5/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Subsoil Sovereignty: The American Turn in Iran’s Geopolitics and the Making of the 1954 Consortium | June 10, 2025 Ehssan Hanif Fifth Zahedi Family Fellow lecture held at Stanford University. Following a brief period of oil nationalization, the 1953 coup that overthrew Mohammad Mossadegh marked a critical turning point in Iran’s political and economi | 6/10/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics, and Activism at Aryamehr University of Technology | A book talk with two of the authors of "Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics, and Activism at Aryamehr University of Technology" (MIT press, 2025). In 1966, the Shah of Iran established Arya-Mehr University of Technology (AMUT), now known as Shar | 5/29/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Shiraz Arts Festival, 1967-1977 with Mahasti Afshar | May 23, 2025 Mahasti Afshar joins us to discuss her book Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis 1967-1977 (Mage Publishers, 2025), an international event that was held every summer between 1976-1977 in Shiraz and Persepolis. The festival presented outstand | 5/23/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book Talk: Simorgh, Portraits on My Mind with Abbas Milani and Mahasti Afshar | May 22, 2025 Simorgh: Portraits on My Mind (Mage Publishers, 2025), is one of Abbas Milani’s most self-reflective and engaging books. The two-part Persian original, Si-Chehreh, has been masterfully translated by Mahasti Afshar in a single volume. Titl | 5/22/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Music and Charismatic Authority in the First Decade of the Islamic Republic | May 15, 2025 The relationship between music and revolution has often been a fraught one. This lecture discusses the tension between the two, focusing on the Islamic Revolution of 1979. It chronicles the evolution of state policy towards music in the yea | 5/15/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Self-Sufficiency in Iran: The Water-Agriculture-Environment Conundrum | Iran's increasing population has posed significant challenges to agriculture in ensuring food security. As a major agricultural producer in the Middle East, Iran has long pursued the goal of food self-sufficiency. However, the viability of this ambitiou | 5/1/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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My Duty Was To Speak with Abdolali Azimi | April 29, 2025 از من گفتن بود: کاش خاموشی بود؛ روزگارِ همهمه و هیاهوست. سکوت، گوهرِ کمیاب و حتی نایابیست. اهلِ زبان، نااهل شدهاند، وگرنه زبان ف | 4/29/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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In the Shadow of the Cypress: Film Screening & Discussion | April 18, 2025 Discussion with the writers and directors of the Academy Award winning film “In the Shadow of the Cypress,” Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani. The film won the 2025 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. “A former captain, suffering f | 4/18/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway with Mikiya Koyagi | Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf in the south. Iran's first national railway, it produced and disrupted various kinds of movement—volun | 4/17/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From Houri Moghadam to Homa Sarshar: Iranian Women Archives at Stanford Part 2 | March 6, 2025 A half-day conference celebrating important archival collections at Stanford University created by or about Iranian women. Scholars explored the intricacies of archival creation, the vital role these collections play in preserving the mod | 3/6/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From Houri Moghadam to Homa Sarshar: Iranian Women Archives at Stanford Part 1 | March 6, 2025 A half-day conference celebrating important archival collections at Stanford University created by or about Iranian women. Scholars explored the intricacies of archival creation, the vital role these collections play in preserving the mod | 3/6/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A History of Alcohol in the Muslim Middle East | February 13, 2025 This talk debunks the myth that, since alcohol is forbidden in Islam, “good” Muslims do not drink. It argues that, rather than extraneous to Islam, alcohol is integral to the faith, present through its very presumed absence. It pre | 2/13/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Intercultural Music in Iran and its Diaspora with Hesam Abedini | For Iranian musicians, intercultural collaborations serve as a means to break free from isolation and connect with the wider world. This became particularly important in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic revolution, which led to a significant decline in | 2/6/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Hidden Order of Life: How Nature Breaks Symmetry | The second annual Christine Mona Khademi lecture with Dr. Nikta Fakhri was held January 30, 2025. Living systems are in constant motion, from the inner workings of our cells to the synchronized movements of bird flocks. What sets these systems apart is | 1/30/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rabbis in Zoroastrian Fire Temples: A New History of Jews in the Sasanian Empire with Simcha Gross | Over the course of late antiquity, many Jews lived in the Sasanian Empire, a Persian and Zoroastrian power that rivaled the Romans to their west in size and strength. Among these Jews were a community of rabbis who are featured in, and were responsible | 12/6/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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On the Foreign Sources of Political Legitimacy in Late-Pahlavi Iran (1968-1978) with Hussein Banai | A talk by the fourth recipient of the Zahedi Family Fellowship, Dr. Hussein Banai. In this talk, Dr. Hussein Banai focuses on the procurement of late-Pahlavi Iran’s credibility, and Mohammadreza Shah’s legitimacy, in its diplomatic outreach toward | 12/5/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Magnetic Mysteries of the Galaxies | November 21, 2024 The space between stars is a magnetic soup of electrons, atoms, molecules, ions, and dust grains, known as the interstellar medium (ISM). It is this material that ultimately condenses to form stars, planets, and life. The densest and | 11/21/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Magnetic Mysteries of the Galaxies with Mehrnoosh Tahani | The space between stars is a magnetic soup of electrons, atoms, molecules, ions, and dust grains, known as the interstellar medium (ISM). It is this material that ultimately condenses to form stars, planets, and life. The densest and coldest part of the | 11/21/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book Talk: The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry with Farshad Sonboldel | Join us for a lecture by Dr. Farshad Sonboldel, drawn from his recent book "The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry" (Bloomsbury, 2024). During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, shifts in poetic styles and themes emerged, diverging from t | 11/7/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book Talk: An Encounter with Dylan Thomas by Ebrahim Golestan | A virtual conversation with Dr. Abbas Milani and Dr. Alina Utrata about the book "An Encounter with Dylan Thomas" by Ebrahim Golestan. Published by Mage Publishers in 2022, the book is edited and translated by Dr. Abbas Milani, and includes material fou | 9/26/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Evolution of Female Protagonists in Bahram Beyzaie’s Oeuvre with Saeed Talajooy | Professor Saeed Talajooy discusses the evolution of female protagonists in Bahram Beyzaie’s “Puppet Trilogy," “The Snake King” (1966), and “Ballad of Tārā" (1978-9). Ballad of Tārā, the second film in Professor Beyzaie's village trilogy, | 6/6/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Intersection of AI and Neurotechnology with Dr. Maryam Shanechi | The inaugural "Christine Mona Khademi lecture" with Dr. Maryam Shanechi organized on May 16, 2024. A major challenge in engineering and neuroscience is to model, decode, and control the activity of large populations of neurons that underlie our brain’ | 5/16/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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14th Bita Prize for Persian Arts: Shahram Nazeri | The 14th Bita Prize for Persian Arts celebrating acclaimed Iranian musician Shahram Nazeri was organized on May 10, 2024. Shahram Nazeri was born on August 22, 1949, in Kermanshah, Iran. His was a family steeped in art and culture. Though his father wa | 5/10/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Finding Home and Community Through Food with Nasim Alikhani | Chef Nasim Alikhani discusses how, even 35 years after leaving Iran for New York, she constantly looks for ways to connect back to her homeland, her culture, and the home she has left behind. In this talk she elaborates on her journey to opening her res | 4/30/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Book Talk: Lament for Siavash by Shahrokh Meskoob" with Mahasti Afshar | Dr. Mahasti Afshar presents her recent translation of "Lament for Siavash" (Mage Publishers, 2024), the English translation of "Sūg-e Siavash" by Shahrokh Meskoob, originally published in Persian in 1971. The book is an exegesis of the story of the dea | 4/25/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Twilight of the Islamic Republic?" with Ali Ansari | Dr. Ali Ansari examines the arguments about the strength and stability of the Islamic Republic and argues that it is more fragile than many people believe. His talk assess the causes of this fragility and provides some trajectories for development going | 4/18/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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In The Name of The Rainbow: The Bridge-Building Goddess of Hope with Farzaneh Milani | Dr. Farzaneh Milani discusses the semiotics of the rainbow in Iranian literature as it reflects the societal struggles for freedom and women's rights in present day Iran. “In the name of the Rainbow Goddess,” said the nine-year-old Kian Pirfallak be | 3/7/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A History of Iranian Masculinities During the Late Qajar and Early Pahlavi Period with Sivan Balslev | The transition from Qajar rule in Iran to that of rule by the Pahlavi dynasty set in motion a number of shifts in the political, social, and cultural realms. Focusing on masculinity in Iran, Dr. Sivan Balslev discussed her book, "Iranian Masculinities: | 2/29/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Forugh Farrokhzad: A New Edition of Her Collected Works with Domenico Ingenito | Professor Domenico Ingenito discusses his new book من از نهایت شب حرف میزنم / Io parlo dai confini della notte / I Speak from the Edges of the Night (Bompiani 2023, 800 pp.) offering a critical edition and Italian translation of Fo | 2/22/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Heroes to Hostages: America and Iran in a Troubled Middle East with Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet | What went awry with Iran and America? Based on Dr. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet's book, "Heroes to Hostages: America and Iran, 1800-1988", this lecture pays attention to Iran’s Third World networks as it navigated the Cold War. It focuses attention on race | 2/8/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Humans of New York, Brandon Stanton, and Telling Stories About Iran | A conversation with Humans of New York founder Brandon Stanton about his story-telling process, and in particular the decision to write his longest story about Iran—as told by Parwiz Zafari and the Zafari family. The 54-part series was told in English | 2/2/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Arian Moayed and the Artist as Citizen | A conversation with Arian Moayed, an Iranian-born, Emmy and Tony-nominated actor, and co-founder of Waterwell, about his immigration story, his career as a director and producer, and his experience acting as an Iranian in the industry. About Arian Moaye | 1/9/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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No Cadillac Country: Oil, Sovereignty, and Development in Pahlavi Iran with Bita Mousavi | A talk by the third recipient of the Zahedi Family Fellowship, Bita Mousavi. This event was organized on December 7, 2023. The 1960s were a period of both crisis—oil gluts, inflation, depleting foreign reserves—and state centralization for Iran. Usi | 12/7/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Earliest Social History in Persian? A Preliminary Study of the ʿAẕb al-Bayān (1865) | An in-person talk by Dr. Kioumars Ghereghlou about the nineteenth-century Persian history writings of Muhammad Husayn Afshar Qiriqlu, an India-based Iranian merchant and historian. This lecture was organized on November 30, 2023. Nineteenth-century Per | 11/30/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli Speaks with Stanford Iranian Studies Students Live from Space | On Wednesday, November 29th, 2023, Stanford Iranian Studies students had the opportunity to ask questions of Iranian-American NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli live from the International Space Station. Jasmin Moghbeli was selected by NASA to join the 201 | 11/29/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Narratives From the Victims of Flight PS752 with Hamed Esmaeilion and Moniro Ravanipour | A discussion with Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion, Ms. Moniro Ravanipour, and guest Ms. Azadeh Heydaripour. Event was in Persian and hosted on October 26, 2023 at Stanford. The downing of the Ukrainian passenger flight 752 over the skies of Tehran on January 8, 20 | 10/26/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book Talk: Persian Cypress and the Blooms of Modernity with Mandana Zandian | "Persian Cypress and the Blooms of Modernity" is Dr. Mandana Zandian's narrative of revisiting a collection of Dr. Abbas Milani's works, with a central theme of Modernity. It is presented in the form of a conversation with the author and has been edited | 10/12/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book Talk: Ahmad Shamlou, Behind the Mirror | October 5, 2023 Speaker: Bahram Grami A book talk about the acclaimed Iranian poet, Ahmad Shamlou, with Dr. Bahram Grami. Event is in Persian and was organized on Oct. 5, 2023. “The book 'Ahmad Shamlou, Behind the Mirror' is not a literary criticism, | 10/5/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Woman, Life, Freedom: A Retrospective with Marjane Satrapi and Abbas Milani | Conversation with Marjane Satrapi and Abbas Milani, moderated by Sima Sabet. Event is in Persian. On September 16, 2022, in Iran, Mahsa Amini succumbed to beatings from the morality police because she had not worn her veil "well." Her death sparked a wa | 9/16/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mohammad Reza Shajarian Records Singing with Hagia Sophia Acoustics | In 2014, Maestro Mohammad Reza Shajarian visited Stanford University. In collaboration with Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), he recorded a few test sessions using virtual acoustics of the Hagia Sophia. Recording | 9/6/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Challenges and Successes of Creating an NGO in Iran with Sharmin Meymandinejad and Zahra Rahimi | Social activists Sharmin Meymandinejad and Zahra Rahimi discuss their social work and founding of the Imam Ali Relief Society—one of the largest and most successful nonprofits to operate under the Islamic Republic—until it was dissolved by the Irani | 8/18/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From a Personal Archive to a Book: Genealogy of Bagher Mortazavi’s Collected Papers & Books | "From a Personal Archive to a Book: Genealogy of Bagher Mortazavi’s Collected Papers and Published Books" In this book talk at Stanford University, Mr. Bagher Mortazavi discusses the years-long effort to accumulate internal documents and letters perta | 7/7/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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13th Bita Prize for Persian Arts: Homa Sarshar | The full ceremony of the 13th Bita Prize for Persian Arts honoring Homa Sarshar including Ms. Sarshar's acceptance speech and Q&A session with the audience. Homa Sarshar is a published author, award-winning journalist, writer, media personality, philan | 6/24/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Abdu'l Baha at Stanford: A Centennial Conference | 00:00 Welcome Remarks: Dr. Abbas Milani 08:30 The Baha’i Archives at Stanford: Dr. C. Ryan Perkins 13:36 "Abdu'l Baha’s Journey Across America" by Hamid Mozaffari PANEL I 25:22 Moderator: Dr. Natalie Jean Marine-Street 30:13 Abbas Milani: “Abd | 6/4/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Parliamentary Politics and Iran-US Relations During the Cold War | June 1, 2023 Speaker: Tomoyo Chisaka The second Zahedi Family Fellow lecture by the Spring 2023 Zahedi Fellow, Dr. Tomoyo Chisaka. Influential literature on Iran-US relations has assessed economic and security issues as having profound impacts on the r | 6/1/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Parliamentary Politics and Iran-US Relations During the Cold War with Tomoyo Chisaka | The second Zahedi Family Fellow lecture by the Spring 2023 Zahedi Fellow, Dr. Tomoyo Chisaka. Influential literature on Iran-US relations has assessed economic and security issues as having profound impacts on the rise and fall of Mohammad Reza Shah. H | 6/1/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Women, Art, Freedom: Women Artists & Street Politics in Iran by Pamela Karimi | May 11, 2023 Speakers: Pamela Karimi Discussion with Dr. Pamela Karimi about the work of several prominent contemporary women artists and their courageous acts of political activism in the streets of Iran. Following the tragic murder of Mahsa Amini, Ira | 5/11/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Never Invisible: An Iranian Woman’s Life Across the Twentieth Century | May 2, 2023 Speakers: Ladan Lari, Leila Pourhashemi, Abbas Milani, Kioumars Ghereghlou A discussion about "Never Invisible: An Iranian Woman’s Life Across the Twentieth Century" (Mage Publishers, 2023). Houri Mostofi Moghadam was born in Tehran, Iran, | 5/2/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Challenges and Prospects for Dynamic Entrepreneurship in Iran’s Transition to Democracy | April 21, 2023 A conversation with prominent Iranian-American business leaders Faraj Aalaei, Siavash Alamouti, Fay Arjomandi, Afsaneh Beschloss, Hamid Moghadam, and Shane Tedjarati about the role of dynamic entrepreneurship, the role of women in the fut | 4/21/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conference Plenary: Key Challenges & Pathways for Transition (Hambastegi group discussion) | This is a four-part panel discussion with Hambastegi group members. Shirin Ebadi, Hamed Esmailioun, Masih Alinejad, and Nazanin Bonyadi share their thoughts on the formation of the group, the drafting process of their Charter, and the need for a framewo | 3/26/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From Esther to Persepolis: Harbingers of Woman, Life, Freedom | March 25, 2023 Speakers: Mahnaz Afkhami, Homa Sarshar, and Marjane Satrapi A discussion with Ms. Mahnaz Afkhami, Ms. Homa Sarshar, and Ms. Marjane Satrapi, moderated by Dr. Mandana Zandian as a part of the conference "Dialogues on Iran's Transition to S | 3/25/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pacted Transitions and Applications to Iran | March 17, 2023 Speakers: Hicham Alaoui A discussion with Dr. Hicham Alaoui (Hicham Alaoui Foundation) and Dr. Abbas Milani (Stanford Iranian Studies) in March of 2023. Part of the conference "Dialogues on Iran's Transition to Secular Democracy" co-hos | 3/17/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Challenges of Iran's Transition in Comparative Perspective | March 16, 2023 Speakers: Larry Diamond, Michael McFaul, Abbas Milani A discussion with Professor Larry Diamond (Political Science, Stanford) and Professor Michael McFaul (FSI, Stanford), moderated by Dr. Abbas Milani (Stanford Iranian Studies) in March | 3/16/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Human Rights Data Collection for Judicial Processes in Iran's Transition to Secular Democracy | March 15, 2023 Speakers: Allen Weiner, Bailey Ulbricht A discussion with Professor Allen Weiner (Stanford Law School) and Bailey Ulbricht (Stanford Humanitarian Program), moderated by Dr. Abbas Milani (Stanford Iranian Studies) in March of 2023. Part | 3/15/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel Discussion of Norooz (Persian New Year) | March 14, 2023 Speakers: Mojdeh Shamsaie, Shervin Emami, Abbas Milani, Donya Nasser Panel discussion of Norooz/Persian New Year, hosted by the Stanford Iranian Studies Program and the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program at Stanford in March 2023. Ms. Mojde | 3/14/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Amplifying Iranian Women with Voice AI with Iran Davar Ardalan | March 9, 2023 Speaker: Iran Davar Ardalan Iran Davar Ardalan discusses the innovative and new Voice AI experience “Freedom Speaks.” This project honors Iranian women using powerful art such as poems, music and more from the past & present—all acce | 3/9/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What the Failure of Local Democracy in Iran tells about Islamist Authoritarianism by Kian Tajbakhsh | March 2, 2023 Speakers: Kian Tajbakhsh Author Kian Tajbakhsh discussed his most recent book, "Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization." With a combination of historical, political, and financial field resear | 3/2/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Discussion with Mohsen Yalfani | February 17, 2023 Speakers: Mohsen Yalfani, Shabnam Tolouei A discussion with Mohsen Yalfani about his life, work, and the recent reading of his play “Diaspora,” directed by Shabnam Tolouei at Stanford University. Ms. Tolouei joined the conversation | 2/17/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Discussion with Mohsen Yalfani | A discussion with Mohsen Yalfani about his life, work, and the recent reading of his play “Diaspora,” directed by Shabnam Tolouei at Stanford University. Ms. Tolouei joined the conversation as well. Discussion is in Persian. Mohsen Yalfani was born | 2/17/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reza Shah's Exile in Mauritius with Houchang Chehabi | February 8, 2023 Speaker: Houchang Chehabi Dr. Houchang Chehabi discusses his new research work on Reza Shah and his family's exile in Mauritius. In 1941 Reza Shah and most of his family were exiled by the British to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius | 2/8/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"How Iranians and Iran Changed the life of an American Woman" by Mona Khademi | February 2, 2023 Speaker: Mona Khademi Mona Khademi will examine the extraordinary life of Laura Barney and her deep and enduring connections with Iranians and Iran, and their impact on her life. Laura Barney learned Persian, traveled to Iran in 1906, v | 2/2/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Violence of Benevolence and the Struggles for Women's Rights in Iran with Arzoo Osanloo | This talk explores the state's contradictory demands on Iranian women in the post-revolutionary era. It examines the processes that at once reinforced women's expectations of rights yet also demanded that women exemplify a static symbolic status to furt | 1/26/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Narrative of Endurance with Homa Sarshar | December 1, 2022 Speaker: Homa Sarshar Homa Sarshar discusses her new book "A Narrative of Endurance." She also touched on the Iranian women’s movement and demonstrations organized by the Iranian diaspora in support of protests in Iran over the past f | 12/1/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free (film screening discussion) | November 30, 2022 Speaker: Shirin Ebadi The Iranian Studies Program screened a new documentary “Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free” about the Nobel Peace laureate’s mission to bring justice to the people of Iran. Dr. Ebadi held a post screening discu | 11/30/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Film screening: There Is No Evil | October 29, 2021 Speaker: Mohammad Rasoulof The film screening of There Is No Evil was followed by a discussion with the film's director, Mohammad Rasoulof. The talk is in Persian with live English translation. About the film: Filmed in secret and ban | 10/29/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion: It Snows In This House (Book Talk) | October 28, 2022 Speaker: Hamed Esmaeilion Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion discusses his award-winning novels written in Persian, as well as his moving memoir about the loss of his wife and daughter in the downing of flight PS752 by the Islamic Republic of Iran on | 10/28/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion and Babak Payami: An Open Wound in the Sky | October 13, 2022 Speakers: Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion and Babak Payami The Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies held a special screening of award-winning director Babak Payami’s new documentary "752 Is Not a Number" about the unprecedente | 10/13/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book Talk: The Battles of a Judge with Dr. Hamid Najafi | September 29, 2022 Speaker: Dr. Hamid Najafi Dr. Hamid Najafi discusses his new book "The Battles of a Judge." The book was written by Dr. Najafi and his late father, Dr. Hossein Najafi. From 1946 to 1979, Hossein Najafi served at the Justice Ministry o | 9/29/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Discussion: Rediscovering 12 Persian Folk Songs by Blair Fairchild with Faraz Minooei | Musician Faraz Minooei discusses his new film, "Rediscovering 12 Persian Folk Songs by Blair Fairchild" which brings back to life the late 19th century Iranian music Blair Fairchild (American composer and diplomat) discovered and published in 1904. Fara | 8/25/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nobody's Periphery: Pahlavi Iran and the Arab-Israeli Conflict with Arash Azizi | "Pahlavi Iran, alongside Turkey, was a rare case of a Muslim-majority state to have consistent relations with Israel. Much of existing literature often discusses this as an aspect of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion’s Policy of Periphery. But t | 5/31/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nobody's Periphery: Pahlavi Iran and the Arab-Israeli Conflict | May 31, 2022 Speaker: Arash Azizi "Pahlavi Iran, alongside Turkey, was a rare case of a Muslim-majority state to have consistent relations with Israel. Much of existing literature often discusses this as an aspect of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gur | 5/31/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Reconfiguration of Iran's Political Elite: Rising Indoctrinated Technocrats with Saeid Golkar | May 19, 2022 Speaker: Saeid Golkar Ayatollah Khamenei is replacing the Islamic Republic's old cohort of specialists with newly indoctrinated technocrats, preparing the regime for a swift succession. In addition, reconfiguration of political elites is sh | 5/19/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ehsan Yarshater's Yaddashtha: Reflections on Iranian History, Literature, Culture, and the Arts | April 8, 2022 Speakers: Mahnaz Afkhami, Ali Banuazizi, Mandana Zandian Scholars reflect on Ehsan Yarshater's remarkable contributions and lasting impact on the study of Iranian history, literature, culture, and the arts. Dr. Yarshater (1920-2018) was Ha | 4/22/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Clash of Values: Islamic Fundamentalism Versus Liberal Nationalism with Mansoor Moaddel | April 14, 2022 The Clash of Values provides groundbreaking empirical data to demonstrate how the collision between Islamic fundamentalism and liberal nationalism explains the region’s present and will determine its future. Analyzing data from over 60 | 4/14/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Legacy of Mohammad Mosaddegh with Nicolas Gorjestani | March 3, 2022 Speaker: Nicolas Gorjestani Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iran's prime minister in the early 1950s, was one of the most consequential national leaders of the twentieth century. Based on his recent book, Nicolas Gorjestani will examine Mosaddegh's li | 3/3/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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One Hundred Years of Extraterritoriality and Capitulations in Iran: 1828-1928 | February 25, 2022 In the age of imperialism Iran was one of only a handful of non-Western states that maintained their sovereignty. However, as in other places such as the Ottoman Empire, China, and Siam, this sovereignty was punctured by unequal treati | 2/22/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Film screening: "Immigrant Stories: Iranian-Americans of Silicon Valley" | November 12, 2021 The film screening of Immigrant Stories: Iranian-Americans of Silicon Valley was followed by a conversation with the film's co-directors, Nima Naimi, Alireza Sanayei, and Julian Gigola. About the documentary: Iranian Americans have a | 11/12/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Global 1968, the Death of Takhti, and the Birth of the Iranian Revolution | October 15, 2021 Naghmeh Sohrabi and Arash Davari This talk reconstructs rumors and demonstrations in 1968 around the death of Gholamreza Takhti, Iran's beloved gold-winning wrestling champion, recentering them in the history of the 1979 revolution and | 11/5/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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On Ebrahim Golestan: An Inquiry into "Tide and Mist" | November 5, 2021 Speaker: Sahand Abidi Sahand Abidi is an essayist and critic. He studied drama at the fine arts faculty of Tehran University. He worked as a playwright, dramaturge, assistant director and actor in theatre, and taught courses on the hist | 11/5/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Image and Words in the Films and Stories of Ebrahim Golestan | October 22, 2021 Speaker: Ameneh Yousefi Ameneh Yousefi was born in Hamedan city in Iran. She received her Doctoral in Persian Literature from the University of Karaj. She has done several auditorial, visual and animated projects as an author for Local | 10/22/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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White Torture: The Infamy of Solitary Confinement in Iran with Narges Mohammadi | September 29, 2021 Narges Mohammadi in conversation with Darius Rejali and Abbas Milani. Narges Mohammadi is Deputy Director of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC). She was elected as President of the Executive Committee of the National Council | 10/21/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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SGS Summer Film Festival: Cafe Transit | August 11, 2021 Speaker: Fereshteh Sadreorafaei Fereshteh Sadreorafaei was born in Tehran, Iran in 1962. From a young age, she attended the Children and Adolescents' Intellectual Development Center. There, she studied theater and puppetry and staged sev | 8/11/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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President Carter's Handling of the Iranian Revolution and Hostage Crisis: Discussion with Kai Bird | July 18, 2021 Kai Bird discusses President Jimmy Carter's interaction with Iran as a part of his new book, "The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter" (Crown, 2021). More about the book: "Four decades after Ronald Reagan’s landslide wi | 7/20/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Nonviolent Revolution of Iranian Women Writers: A Conversation with Farzaneh Milani | June 24, 2021 Professor Farzaneh Milani discusses Iranian women writers and the Iranian women’s movement with Professor Abbas Milani. The conversation is a part of the on-going series on the Iranian women’s movement. Farzaneh Milani is Raymond J. | 6/29/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory readings of Persian literature (A Hafezian Banquet) | May 27, 2021 Literary research premised on sensory studies challenges above all the monopolization of modern Persian literary criticism by socio-political discourses, which generally rely on content-based approaches constructing "committed readings" of | 6/4/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Economic Cost of the Islamic Revolution and War for Iran with Mohammad Reza Farzanegan | May 20, 2021 This study estimates the joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq, on Iran’s per capita Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP,’ constant 2010 US$) for the period 1978–1988, during the revolution/war. Professor Mohammad Rez | 6/4/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Iranian Women's Movement: A Conversation with Kian Katouzian | May 6, 2021 Kian Katouzian discusses her life as a working woman in Iran, participating in the opposition against the Shah and then against Khomeini before leaving Iran for a life of exile in France. She discusses the feelings of loneliness and disorie | 6/4/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Translating Ulysses into Persian: A Century of Censorship with Akram Pedramnia | April 22, 2021 Translating a work that employs inventive literary techniques is an already arduous task, however, negotiating with a system of imposed censorship makes the process of translating and publishing increasingly more intricate. In this talk, | 5/3/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Iran's Experiment with Parliamentary Government with Mangol Bayat | For the past several decades, scholars have studied and written about the Iranian constitutional revolution with the 1979 Islamic Revolution as a subtext, obscuring the secularist trend that characterized its very nature. Constitutionalist leaders repre | 4/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Britain and the Abdication of Reza Shah with Shaul Bakhash | When Britain and the Soviet Union invaded and occupied Iran in August 1941 during the Second World War, in violation of Iran’s policy of neutrality, their principal purpose was to use Iran as a bridge to supply a Russia hard-pressed by Hitler’s army | 4/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Exposing Economic Corruption in Iran: A Journalist's Odyssey into Exile with Mohammad Mosaed | Mohammad Mosaed is an Iranian investigative journalist who wrote and reported on economic corruption in Iran. He was arrested in November 2019, banned from working, and sentenced to 4 years and 9 months in prison. He escaped the country while appealing | 4/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Song Sparrow: Film Screening & Discussion with Farzaneh Omidvarnia | Farzaneh Omidvarnia’s 2019 short film “Song Sparrow” (11 minutes) follows a group of refugees trying to reach a safe country in search of a better life. Based on real events in Austria in 2015 and Ireland in 2019, the film creatively uses dolls an | 4/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Beholding Beauty: Sa'di of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry | Professor Domenico Ingenito discusses his new book Beholding Beauty: Sa'di of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry (Brill, December 2020). The book explores the relationship between sexuality, politics, and spirituality in the | 4/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present with John Ghazvinian | Dr. John Ghazvinian discusses his recent book America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present (Knopf, 2021). In recent times, the United States and Iran have seemed closer to war than peace, but that is not where their story began. When America was in | 4/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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In Solitary: Then the Fish Swallowed Him with Amir Arian | Amir Ahmadi Arian discusses his first novel in English, Then the Fish Swallowed Him published by HarperCollins in 2020. “Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of his father and m | 4/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book Talk: Man of My Time with Dalia Sofer | Set in Tehran and New York, Man of My Time is the story of Hamid Mozaffarian, who is as alienated from himself as he is from the world. After decades of working with ambivalence for the Iranian government, Hamid travels on a diplomatic mission to New Y | 4/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ala Mohseni Discusses His New Documentary "Ayyar e Tanha" About Bahram Beyzaie | Filmmaker Ala Mohseni will discuss his new documentary "Ayyar e Tanha." It documents the particular situation in Iran that forced an acclaimed and distinguished artist like Bahram Beyzaie to leave his homeland and live in exile. Please watch the film | 4/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Iranian Women: The Achilles Heel of the Islamic Republic of Iran with Homa Sarshar | Homa Sarshar discusses her life and work, and the role of women in Iran. Homa Sarshar is a published author, award-winning journalist, writer, and media personality. She is the author of four books and the editor of eleven other volumes, including fi | 4/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book Talk: Out of Mesopotamia with Salar Abdoh | April 15, 2021 An unprecedented glimpse into "endless war" from a Middle Eastern perspective, Salar Abdoh’s novel, "Out of Mesopotamia," follows in the tradition of the Western canon of martial writers–from Hemingway and Orwell to Tim O'Brien and Ph | 4/26/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Blue Logos and Women's Wisdom with Shahrnush Parsipur | October 15, 2020 Shahrnush Parsipur was born in Tehran, Iran and received her BA in Sociology from the University of Tehran. She wrote her first novel at the age of 28, Sag va Zememstaneh Boland (The Dog and the Long Winter) and later that year was impr | 2/4/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book Talk: Disoriental with Negar Djavadi | Négar Djavadi was born in Iran in 1969 to a family of intellectuals opposed to the regimes both of the Shah, then of Khomeini. She arrived in France at the age of eleven, having crossed the mountains of Kurdistan on horseback with her mother and sister | 2/4/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Film Screening and Panel Discussion: NASRIN | NASRIN is an immersive portrait of attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, one of the world’s most prominent human rights activists and political prisoners. Written and directed by Jeff Kaufman, produced by Marcia Ross, and secretly filmed in Iran by women and men | 10/23/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Muslim Women and Political Leadership - Shahla Haeri | "Political mobility and freedom to choose are the quintessential mandate of women in the second decade of the 21st century. From Northwest Africa to Southeast Asia, and anywhere in-between Muslim women are mobilizing, joining their voices and marshallin | 10/23/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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SGS Summer Film Festival: Chicken with Plums - Marjane Satrapi | This year the Stanford Global Studies Summer Film Festival will be held virtually. Join us from your home as we watch seven films from around the world that focus on the theme “Love in the Time of Cinema.” The Hamid and Christina Moghadam Progra | 10/23/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Iranian Women's Movement: A Conversation with Mansoureh Shojaee | Mansoureh Shojaee has been one of the leaders of the Iranian women’s rights movement for over 20 years and involved in politics for more than 30 years. She was a librarian at the National Library in Tehran for 22 years and worked as a journalist, free | 9/9/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Iranian Women's Movement: A Conversation with Mahnaz Afkhami | Mahnaz Afkhami will discuss her experience with the Iranian women’s movement. Conversation will be in English. Mahnaz Afkhami is the founder, president, and CEO of Women’s Learning Partnership and former Minister for Women’s Affairs in Iran. Afkh | 9/9/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Iranian Women's Movement: A Conversation with Mehrangiz Kar | Professor Mehrangiz Kar, a human rights lawyer from Iran, is an internationally recognized writer, speaker and activist who advocates for the defense of women’s and human rights in Iran and throughout the Islamic world. A common theme in her work is t | 7/13/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Saadi and Humanism | Abbas Milani discusses his new book Saadi and Humanism (written with Maryam Mirzadeh, published by Zemestan Press in Iran). The book is in Persian/Farsi, the conversation was in English. | 7/13/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Iran in the International System | Heinz Gärtner and Mitra Shahmoradi discuss their recent book Iran in the International System: Iran between Great Powers and Great Ideas (Routledge, January 2020). They are joined by Abbas Milani who will speak about his chapter in the book. Drawing on | 7/13/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Iranian Women's Movement: A Conversation with Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani | Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, a member of a family long considered a pillar of the Islamic Republic of Iran, became a prisoner of conscience in that regime and is now a defender of equal rights for women—one of the many fascinating transformations in Ira | 7/13/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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An Overview of the COVID-19 Situation: Lessons Learned from Iran | April 22, 2020 Arash Alaei, Kamiar Alaei Discussion will include a brief overview of the current situation of the coronavirus in Iran followed by a health policy analysis of: • When, how and why the virus entered Iran; • Whether it was preventab | 5/8/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From COVID19 to Cholera: Repeating Patterns in Iranian Pandemic History | Dr. Amir Afkhami April 16, 2020 Why has the novel coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic been so widespread and deadly in Iran and what are the consequences of the outbreak? This lecture will attempt to answer these questions by presenting a timeline of the CO | 4/23/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rereading the Ten Nights | Dr. Mandana Zandian lectured at Stanford on March 5, 2020. In October 1977, the German-Iranian Cultural Association in Tehran hosted ten nights of literature reading sessions, organized by the Iranian Writers Association. This series of literature read | 3/27/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic" by Narges Bajoghli | Professor Narges Bajoghli discussed her recent book "Iran Reframed" at Stanford on February 20, 2020. “An inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic. More than half of Iran's citi | 2/26/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"In the Presence of the Secret of Motherland" by Reza Farokhfal | On October 15, 2019, Reza Farokhfal discussed his recent book "In the Presence of the Secret of Motherland" and Iran and "Iranianity" in Persian literature. Reza Farokhfal is a published writer in his home country of Iran. His fictional works as well | 1/30/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cooking in Iran: Regional Recipes and Kitchen Secrets | Najmieh Batmanglij, hailed as “The Grande Dame of Iranian Cooking” by The Washington Post, has spent the past 40 years cooking, traveling, and adapting authentic Persian recipes to tastes and techniques in the West. Her celebrated cook books include | 12/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey" by Mikhal Dekel | Mikhal Dekel discusses her most recent book, "Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey." Beginning in March 1942, Iran became a place of refuge to over one hundred thousand Polish citizens—Catholic but also Jewish—who joined other Jewish refugee | 11/26/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Hafiz and His Contemporaries" by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw | Dominic Parviz Brookshaw is Associate Professor of Persian Literature at the University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow in Persian at Wadham College, Oxford. From 2011-2013 he was Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Comparative Literatur | 11/26/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"All the Saffron We Carried with Us" by Naz Deravian | Naz Deravian is a James Beard Award nominated author of Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories (Flatiron Books). She is the recipient of The IACP Julia Child First Book Award, presented by The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culina | 10/24/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"The Art of Iranian Classical Music" by Parissa | April 25, 2019 Speaker: Parissa Parissa, the grande dame of classical Persian music, led a discussion/workshop on the history, context, and purpose of Iranian classical music. Parissa is known for her extraordinary vocal ability and style. She is the | 10/4/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Iran: the Islamic Regime's Resilience under Pressure" by Amin Saikal | The Islamic Republic of Iran has been in the eyes of the storm ever since its foundation four decades ago. Initially, some analysts could not have confidence in its durability, but it has endured many domestic and foreign policy challenges. Despite bein | 5/28/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"A Modern Contagion: Cholera's Impact on Iranian History" by Amir Afkhami | Amir A. Afkhami presents an overview of pandemic cholera’s seminal role in the emergence and development of modernity in Iran during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This includes details on cholera’s transformative impact on the country’s | 5/28/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pooya Azadi: Moving Toward a New Equilibrium in Iran | Dr. Pooya Azadi, Stanford Iran 2040 project manager, presented an overview of the research outcomes as well as his personal experience in managing the project. Established in 2016 in the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, the Sta | 4/4/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mutual Radicalization: How Groups and Nations Drive Each Other to Extremes | Professor Fathali M. Moghddam discusses how radicalization has become a serious global problem. The talk explores mutual radicalization, where groups and nations push each other to extremes. Drawing from well-established psychological principles, a mode | 4/4/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Iran, Israel, And The U.S. In A Changing Middle East | Talk by David Menashri at Stanford University's Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies on December 4, 2018. Co-sponsored by the Taube Center for Jewish Studies. David Menashri is professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and Senior Re | 3/19/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"The Next Revolution Will Be Led By Women" by Masih Alinejad | (Talk is in English after the first two minutes) Masih Alinejad spoke about her book "The Wind in My Hair" at Stanford University on November 29, 2018. Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist, women's rights activist, TV host of Tablet satirical news | 3/19/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book Talk: "With Open Eyes" by Zakaria Hashemi | Zakaria Hashemi is an acclaimed director, novelist, documentary filmmaker for television, and the lead actor in Ebrahim Golestan’s “Brick and Mirror.” He discusses his book With Open Eyes (2004), a memoir-like novel describing his experiences as a | 11/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Halting Exchange: The Travel Ban's Cultural Effects | Inspired by the Kronos Quartet’s performance Music For Change: The Banned Countries, Stanford Live is partnering with the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies to bring together artists and Stanford foreign relations experts to discu | 11/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Archaeology Of A Sound: Searching For The Music Of Abdolqader Maraqi - Part 2 | Mohammadreza Darvishi was born in 1955, in Shiraz. In 1979, he graduated from the University of Tehran with honors in composition. Darvishi has taught at several universities in Iran and given many lectures all around the world. He has travelled to Iran | 9/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Semiotics Of Iranian Myths With Bahram Beyzaie Part V | Workshop with renowned Iranian film director Bahram Beyzaie at Stanford University, January-March 2013. Sponsored by the Stanford Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, and the Bita Daryabari Endowment in Persian Letters. The five se | 6/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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7th Annual Bita Prize For Literature To Mr Iraj Pezeshkzad | The Bita Daryabari Endowment in Persian Letters, with Stanford's Iranian Studies Program, presented the Bita Prize for Literature on Friday, November 7th 2014, to Iraj Pezeshkzad. With a special presentation by Parviz Sayyad. | 6/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Garden In The Carpet - The Carpet In The Garden | Lecture by Faryar Javherian on February 26, 2015. Faryar Javaherian is an Iranian architect and curator, born in Mahshad, Khorassan, raised in Paris, France and educated in the United States. She studied at the University of Texas at Austin, where she | 6/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Fifth Annual Bita Prize For Literature To Mr Houshang Seyhoun | The Bita Daryabari Endowment in Persian Letters, with Stanford's Iranian Studies Program, presented the Bita Prize for Literature on Thursday, November 29th, 2012, to Mr. Houshang Seyhoun. Houshang Seyoun is a renowned artist and architect known for hi | 6/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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In Memory Of Amin Banani- A Life In Letters And Iranian Studies | February 25, 2014 Speaker: Sheila Banani, Firuz Kazemzadeh, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Wali Ahmadi, John Eilts, Bahram Beyzaie and Abbas Milani. Professor Amin Banani was one of the first Iranians to receive a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University. He | 6/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Eighth Annual Bita Prize For Persian Arts To Dr. Ehsan Yarshater | Ehsan Yarshater is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University and Director of its Center for Iranian Studies. | 6/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Why Was Towfigh Permanently Banned? | Talk by Dr. Abbas Towfigh at Stanford University on April 5, 2018. Dr. Towfigh taught at several universities in Iran and is a poet, author, writer, satirist, and the former editor-in-chief of "Towfigh" satirical paper. He discusses the ban on the most | 6/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Stanford Conference On Iran- Political Elite Formation And Circulation | Presentation by Professor Mehrzad Boroujerdi on March 2, 2018 at the conference "Islamic Republic of Iran: Continuity or Change?" sponsored by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies and the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford Unive | 6/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Stanford Conference On Iran- Concluding Discussion | Abbas Milani, Larry Diamond, Francis Fukuyama, and Michael McFaul discuss Iran on March 2, 2018 at the conference "Islamic Republic of Iran: Continuity or Change?" sponsored by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies and the Freeman | 6/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Stanford Conference On Iran- Recent Trends In The Iranian Economy | Presentation by Dr. Pooya Azadi on March 2, 2018 at the conference "Islamic Republic of Iran: Continuity or Change?" sponsored by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies and the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. More i | 6/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Stanford Conference On Iran: US-Iran Relations In The Age Of Trump | Presentation by Dr. Colin H. Kahl on March 2, 2018 at the conference "Islamic Republic of Iran: Continuity or Change?" sponsored by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies and the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. More | 6/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Literary Modernity In Iran" by Iraj Parsinejad | Iraj Parsinejad studied Persian literature (BA, University of Tehran) and Linguistics (MA, Wolfson College, Oxford). He is the author of A History of Literary Criticism in Iran (IBEX, 2003). He will discuss the origins of literary modernity in Iran incl | 6/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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I Am Taraneh: Discussion With Rasoul Sadrameli | A discussion with Rasoul Sadrameli, director of "I am Taraneh, 15," Abbas Milani, and Bahram Beyzaie, August 31, 2016. As part of the SGS Summer Film Festival, the Hamid & Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies screened the film "I am Taraneh, 1 | 6/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Third Annual Bita Prize For Literature To Mr. Mohammad - Reza Shajarian | The Bita Daryabari Endowment in Persian Letters, with Stanford's Iranian Studies Program, presented the Third Annual Bita Prize for Literature on November 19th, 2010, to Mr. Mohammad-Reza Shajarian. For two generations of Iranians, their most personal | 6/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Women Write Iran: Nostalgia And Human Rights From The Diaspora" by Nima Naghibi | Nima Naghibi is Chair and Associate Professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her research is in the areas of postcolonial and diaspora studies, and life narratives with particular attention to questions of human rights and social justice. | 6/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"From Isfahan To Irvine" by Hossein Omoumi | Hossein Omoumi is a scholar and musician from Isfahan, Iran. He currently teaches at UC Irvine. A new documentary about his life, made by Hesam Abedimi, and innovative teaching style will also be screened (in Farsi with English subtitles). After, Hossei | 6/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"The Eternal Magnetism Of The Dictator: A Psychological Analysis" by Fathali M. Moghaddam | History is a continuing struggle to escape dictatorship. Despite modest progress toward actualized democracy in some parts of the world, dictators once again loom large on the world stage. Globalization is associated with certain conditions that nurture | 6/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"In Search Of Modern Iran" by Abbas Amanat | Abbas Amanat is Professor of History and International Studies and Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. He discusses his new book Iran: A Modern History. | 6/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Maqams: The Roots Of Iranian Classical Music" by Kayhan Kalhor and Ali Akbar Moradi | Kayhan Kalhor and Ali Akbar Moradi in discussion Kayhan Kalhor is an internationally acclaimed kamancheh (Persian spike fiddle) player. His musical collaborations have helped popularize Persian music outside of Iran and attract audiences from around th | 6/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bahram Beyzaie Discusses "Crossroads" | Professor Bahram Beyzaie discusses his newest play "Crossroads" at Stanford University on April 23, 2018. Learn more about "Crossroads" here: https://iranian-studies.stanford.edu/events/bahram-beyzaie-discusses-crossroads-play | 6/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"An Alternative Approach to United States/Iran Relations" by Richard Falk | "An Alternative Approach to United States/Iran Relations" by Richard Falk by Stanford Iranian Studies Program | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Iran and the United States: Missed Opportunities for Reconciliation and Future Prospects | By Barbara Slavin | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Chaucer's Pious Queen and a Persian in a Pear Tree" by Franklin Lewis | "Chaucer's Pious Queen and a Persian in a Pear Tree" by Franklin Lewis by Stanford Iranian Studies Program | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"US-Iran Relations: A Hostage's view" by Kathryn Koob | "US-Iran Relations: A Hostage's view" by Kathryn Koob by Stanford Iranian Studies Program | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Novels and History: Diaspora Writing and Iranian History" by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani | "Novels and History: Diaspora Writing and Iranian History" by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani by Stanford Iranian Studies Program | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Ayatollah Khomeini's Theory of Government: Genesis and Evolution" by Dr. Arash Naraghi | Dr. Arash Naraghi got his doctorate degree in Pharmacology from Tehran University, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at University of California, Santa Barbara. He published a book on new understanding of Abrahamian religion and faith in | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"The Early German Poetry of Fereydoun Farrokhzad" by Nima Mina | Nima Mina is a member of academic staff at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies in the field of Persian and Comparative Literature. He received his academic training in general linguistics and Medieval Studies at the Univers | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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An Evening with Dariush Mehrjui | Dariush Mehrjui, born 8 December 1939 in Tehran) is an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor. As an Iranian New Wave cinema icon, Mehrjui is regarded to be one of the intellectual directors of Iranian cinema. Most of his films are in | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"The Islamic Revolution of 1979: A Diplomat's View" by Jack Miklos | "The Islamic Revolution of 1979: A Diplomat's View" by Jack Miklos by Stanford Iranian Studies Program | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Asia Between Two Worlds" by Shahrnush Parsipur | Born and raised in Tehran, Shahrnush Parsipur received her B.A. in sociology from Tehran University in 1973 and studied Chinese language and civilization at the Sorbonne from 1976 to 1980. Her first book was Tupak-e Qermez (The Little Red Ball - 1969), | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Breath Poetry" by Ziba Karbassi | One of the rising stars of Iranian poetry, Ziba Karbassi was born in 1974 in Tabriz, Iran. She left Iran in 1989 and now lives between London and Paris. She has published five volumes of poetry in Persian, all outside Iran, and continues to write prolif | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Messianic Pragmatists, The Riddle of Iran" by Roger Cohen | Roger Cohen joined The New York Times in 1990. He was a foreign correspondent for more than a decade before becoming acting Foreign Editor on September 11, 2001, and Foreign Editor six months later. Since 2004 he has written a column for the Times-owned | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"The Ismailis of the Iranian World: History and Intellectual Contributions" by Farhad Daftary | Farhad Daftary has been affiliated since 1988 to The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, where he is currently Co-Director and Head of the Department of Academic Research and Publications. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in the US | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"The Odyssey of a Writer From Shiraz to Stanford" by Shahriyar Mandanipour | "The Odyssey of a Writer From Shiraz to Stanford" by Shahriyar Mandanipour by Stanford Iranian Studies Program | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Covering Tehran: A Journalist's Perspective" by Nazila Fathi | Nazila Fathi, New York Times reporter who was in Iran at the time of the June 2009 election. | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"The Social Contract in Iran" by Paul Rivlin | Paul Rivlin is an economist and senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle East and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. He studied at Cambridge, London and Harvard Universities and is the author of four books: The Dynamics of Econom | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Persian in Pakistan: Many Dimensions of a Cultural Relationship" by Shahzad Bashir | Shahzad Bashir, Director of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University Shahzad Bashir specializes in Islamic Studies with primary interests in Sufism, Shi'ism, and the intellectual and social | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Theocracy's Limits: Iran at the Precipice of its Contradictions | Roger Cohen joined The New York Times in 1990. He was a foreign correspondent for more than a decade before becoming acting Foreign Editor on September 11, 2001, and Foreign Editor six months later. Since 2004 he has written a column for the Times-owned | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Iran and Iraq: Cultural Ties or Political Rifts?" by Houchang Chehabi | "Iran and Iraq: Cultural Ties or Political Rifts?" by Houchang Chehabi by Stanford Iranian Studies Program | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Literary Trends in Contemporary Iran" by Ali Dehbashi | Ali Dehbashi has been the editor-in-chief of Bukhara since 1999, a periodical focusing on Iranian and world cultures and literatures. He has authored several books and edited over seventy volumes on Iranian history and literature. He has allocated speci | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"The Poetics of Passage: Bridging the Gap or Filling in the Precipice" by Reza Baraheni | Reza Baraheni, the author of more than sixty books of poetry, fiction, literary theory and criticism, currently teaches at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.Winner of the prestigious Scholars-at-Risk-Program Award of the | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Revisiting Ghosts of Revolution" by Shahla Talebi | Revisiting Ghosts of Revolution: Reading and a Reflection on Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran Shahla Talebi is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University. A na | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"The Veil: Its History and Iconography in Ancient Iran and Islam" by Bijan Gheiby | Bijan Gheiby was born in 1954 in Tehran. He studied Filmmaking and Radio and Television Broadcasting in Tehran and Long Beach (Ca.) In Germany he studied Iranistik in the universities of Hamburg and Göttingen, where he received his Ph.D. in Iranian Stu | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Persian Poetry in Los Angeles: Nostalgia Versus Cultural Adoption" by Majid Naficy | Majid Naficy, the Arthur Rimbaud of Persian poetry, published his first poems in Jon-e Isfahan at age thirteen. Since then, he has put out more than 20 books of poems and essays in Persian. He fled Iran in 1983, a year and a half after the execution of | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women and the Freedom Movement" by Farzaneh Milani | Born and raised in Teheran, Iran, Farzaneh Milani attended French primary and secondary schools. She earned her BA in French Literature in 1970 from California State University at Hayward. Transferring to the University of California in Los Angeles, she | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Ahmad Fardid: A "Westtoxicated" Persian?" by Ali Mirsepassi | "Ahmad Fardid: A "Westtoxicated" Persian?" by Ali Mirsepassi by Stanford Iranian Studies Program | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Love, Rights, and Honor: Gender and Democracy in Iran" by Dr. Ziba Mir-Hosseini | Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iranian politics has conventionally been viewed as a polarized conflict between “secular” and “Islamic” ideologies. I argue that this view has masked the real battle, which has been between despotism and patria | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Everyday Crime in the Sacred Shrine City of Mashhad, 1913-14" by Farzin Vejdani | Farzin Vejdani is an Assistant Professor of modern Iranian history at the University of Arizona. He received his PhD in history from Yale University (2009). His research interests broadly cover late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Iranian intelle | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Iranian Theater in Diaspora: A Playwright's Retrospective" by Mohsen Yalfani | Born and educated in Iran, Mohsen Yalfani is one of the most respected playwrights of Iran. He first established his reputation in the years before the revolution when his plays where known for their unflinching approach to social problems of the time. | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Iran's Wilsonian Moment? Iranian Responses to WWI" by Oliver Bast | Oliver Bast, Dr. phil., Maître-ès-Lettres, is Senior Lecturer [Associate Professor] in Middle Eastern History and Persian at the University of Manchester where he served as head of the department of Middle Eastern Studies between 2008 and 2011. He rea | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Graphic Novels and Iranian Art: The Case of Zahra's Paradise" by Amir Soltani | Amir Soltani is a graphic novelist, documentary filmmaker and human rights activist. He is the co-creator of "Zahra's Paradise", a NYT bestselling graphic novel published as an interactive real-time webcomic (please see http://www.zahrasparadise.com/). | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Muhammad Mossadegh: Patriot of Persia" by Christopher de Bellaigue | Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and was raised in the United Kingdom. In 1995 he graduated in Indian and Persian Studies from Cambridge University and started working as a journalist in India. Since then, he has written from the Midd | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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