2nd annual Prince Dr Sabbar Farman lecture in cooperation with the International Institute of Social History (IISG) and the Amsterdam Initiative for Iranian Studies (AIIS)
Professor Chehabi will discuss that Iranian society is characterized by a cultural divide between those who have, however superficially, adopted a cosmopolitan lifestyle and those who are more inclined to stick to the old ways. The origin of this bifurcation lies in the nineteenth century, when growing numbers of Iranians became familiar with Europe and concluded that the solution to Iran’s perceived backwardness was an emulation of all things European. Beginning in the 1920s, this view informed state policy, and was internalized by what has come to be known as the “modern middle class.” The revolution of 1979 put an end to the political hegemony of this segment of the population, but in spite of large-scale emigration and political emasculation, cosmopolitan Iranians have reproduced themselves and maintained cultural hegemony: Iran’s culture wars go on. This lecture analyses the origins, stages, and different expressions of these culture wars from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.
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