Speaker: Dr. Babak Rahimi

Topic:

Domestic situation of Iran post Khatami era

Wednesday May 31, 2006

This presentation covers the current situation in the region and discusses the nuclear crisis issue and its immediate and possible long-term implication on Iran’s domestic situation: social, political and economic. The presentation will also swirl around the political situation in the post-Khatami era (especially the younger generation) while exploring political developments within Iran’s history from the 1906-1911 Constitutional to the “Islamic” revolution of 1979.

Dr. Rahimi earned his BA at UCSD, received a Ph D. from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He is currently an assistant professor at UCSD in the Department of Literature (Program for the Study of Religion). He is also a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, where he conducts research on the relationship between religion and politics in post-Baathist Iraq. He has published numerous articles, including "Between carnival and mourning"
The Muharram rituals and the emergence of the early modern Iranian public sphere in the Safavi period, 1590-1641 C.E.

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