Please note that:
1. This program will be in Farsi
2. A small eftar will be served at 8:30 pm
Professor AbodolKarim Soroush was born in Tehran, Iran in 1945. He attained a degree in pharmacy in Iran, a graduate degree in analytical chemistry in the UK, and he spent the following five years studying history and the philosophy of science at Chelsea College. After the Islamic Revolution he returned to Iran where he served as director of the newly established Islamic Culture Group at Tehran's Teacher Training College. A year later, as Iranian universities were closed under the banner of the Cultural Revolution, Professor Soroush was directly appointed by Ayatollah Khomeini as one of the original members of the Cultural Revolution Institute, which oversaw the restructuring of all syllabi before a reopening of these institutions three years later. After that assignment he has mainly stayed out of the government, and his principal position has been that of a researcher in the Institute for Cultural Research and Studies. He co-founded the Kiyan monthly, which in the 1990's became one of the most important forums for religious intellectualism in Iran, and this publication served as a forum for his articles, which were increasingly critical of the political role played by the Iranian clergy. In 1998, along with dozens of other publications that were deemed critical of the ruling regime, this monthly was closed down. Since 2000, Soroush has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and he has held teaching and scholarly positions at Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, and other world-class institutions. He won the Erasmus Prize in 2004, he was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2005, and Foreign Policy magazine named him among the most desired thinkers the world should listen to in 2009.
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