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07:00 PM » Dr. Ata'ollah Mohajerani at Stanford

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ata'ollah Mohajerani, the Iranian politician, journalist, and author at Stanford University.
The talk will be in Farsi and on "Hekmat e Ferdowsi".
Attendance is FREE and open to public.

When: Wednesday June 28, 2006 7:00 pm
Where: Stanford University
Havana room @ GCC (Graduate Community Center)
750 Escondido Road
Stanford, CA 94305

A very brief bio:

Dr. Mohajerani received his B.S. in History from University of Isfahan, his M.S. in History and Iranian Culture from Shiraz University and his PhD in History from Tarbiat Modares University. He has had different and influential political positions since the revolution. Dr. Mohajerani was a representative from Shiraz in the first round of the parliamentary elections after the Iranian Revolution. Later, he became the Parliamentary Deputy to the Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi, he then became the Vice President of Parliamentary Affairs under Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Dr. Mohajerani was Mohammad Khatami's first Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran. He survived an impeachment by the parliament at that time and later resigned. He was also the president of the International Centre for Dialogue among Civilizations. He has written a few books, most famous of which are a book in critique of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, a book in support of Ferdowsi , and a book on Zaynab bint Ali's role in and after Aashurah.
Dr. Mohajerani currently maintains a web site www.maktoub.ir with his wife Dr. Jamileh Kadivar.