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A Public Discussion About Iran 25 years after its Revolution

A reading and dialogue led by journalist Christopher de Bellaigue
Author of In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs, A Memoir of Iran (2004)

Friday February 11 @ 4 pm

Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and read Persian and Indian Studies at Cambridge University. He has spent the past decade working as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia. He has written for the Economist, the New York Review of Books, Granta, the New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, the Independent and the Financial Times. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs, was published in 2004. He lives in Tehran with his wife and son.

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1430 Mass Ave, seminar room, fourth floor

In association with the Harvard Middle Eastern Cultural Association

Inquiries? Email: Negar_Azimi@ksg06.harvard.edu

And on Thursday February 10 @ 6 pm:

Internal Reform in Iran: Roots and Prospects

Speakers:

Janet Afary, Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Purdue
University

Christopher de Bellaigue, Author, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs

Mehrangiz Kar, Human Rights Lawyer and Radcliffe Fellow and Harvard Scholar
at Risk

Michael Ignatieff (Moderator), Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice

Wiener Auditorium
Taubman Building
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cchrp/events.shtml.

From: Negar Azimi (Negar_Azimi@ksg06.harvard.edu)