UP TO THE MINUTE: Iran: Changing Perspectives

Date & Time Feb 22 2018 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Audience Open to the Public
An expert panel will discuss “Changing Perspectives on Iran."
 
This event will discuss the recent unrest in Iran from a range of perspectives: Scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds will examine the social, economic, political, regional and international implications of the protests and will attempt to explain their causes, temporality and extent. The discussion will also consider the way different layers of the political establishment have responded and whether or not they will have any mid- and long-term local, regional and international repercussions.
 
The participating scholars study and teach on a range of topics including: modern Iran and its economics and pro-regime cultural producers; Gulf politics; the Middle East; and U.S. foreign policy.
 
Participants will include:
  • Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, professor of economics, Virginia Tech; visiting research scholar, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University
  • Luciano Zaccara, assistant research professor, Qatar University; visiting research scholar, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University
  • Nura Hossainzadeh, lecturer in Near Eastern studies, Princeton University
  • Amin Moghadam, associate research scholar, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University; URMIS – Paris Diderot University
  • Narges Bajoghli, postdoctoral fellow in international and public affairs, Watson Institute, Brown University

The panel will be moderated by Banafsheh Keynoush, foreign policy consultant and author of “Saudi Arabia and Iran: Friends or Foes?”

This event is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton and Program in Near Eastern Studies.