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Due to COVID-19, all events this year are online webinars

Event poster with book cover image for "Journey From the Land of No"

May

12

11:30am

"Journey From the Land of No: A Girlhood in Revolutionary Iran" A Conversation with Roya Hakakian

May

20

10:00am

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

The Economic Cost of the Islamic Revolution and War for Iran

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May

27

10:00am

Mehdi Khorrami

Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory readings of Persian literature (A Hafezian Banquet)

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Mohammad Reza Shajarian

Announcements In the News

Draft Transition Constitution for Iran Written by Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Others

Bahram Beyzaie

Announcements Faculty In the News

Celebrating Bahram Beyzaie's 10 Year Anniversary at Stanford

Mehrangiz Kar

Announcements In the News

The Iranian Women's Movement

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Iran's Experiment with Parliamentary Government

Mangol Bayat

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Britain and the Abdication of Reza Shah

Shaul Bakhash

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Exposing Economic Corruption in Iran: A Journalist's Odyssey into Exile

Mohammad Mosaed

10 Years of Iranian Studies at Stanford