“Constitutional Rights Reconsidered: State and the
Question of Democracy in Iran”. A public lecture by Ali Gheissari, Adjunct Professor: Modern World History and the Middle East at University of San Diego, Visiting Professor: Religious Studies, Brown University.
Reception at 6 pm followed by Lecture at 7pm.
For more info visit: mesa.ucdavis.edu
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Dr. Gheissari has research interest in the intellectual and
political history of modern Iran and the Middle East, and
has published broadly in both English and Persian. His
books include Contemporary Iran: Economy, Society,
Politics (ed., Oxford University Press, 2009); Tabriz and
Rasht in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (ed., Tehran,
2008); Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty (co-author, Oxford University Press, 2006; paperback edition, 2009); Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century (University of Texas Press, 1998; reissued, 2008); and a Persian translation of Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Ethics (with Hamid Enayat, Tehran, 1991). He has previously held visiting appointments at Tehran University, the Iranian Institute of Philosophy, UCLA, Brown University, and St Antony’s College, Oxford. His current research focuses on aspects of
legal and constitutional history of modern Iran. He also serves on the editorial board of the Iran Studies series, published by E.J. Brill (Leiden).
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