آرش عزیزی پژوهشگر مهمان در دانشگاه بوستون و دارای دکترا در رشته تاریخ و مطالعات خاورمیانه از دانشگاه نیویورک است. دو کتاب او به زبان انگلیسی منتشر شده‌اند: «فرمانده در سایه: سلیمانی، آمریکا و آمال جهانی ایران» (۲۰۲۰)، و «ایرانیان چه می‌خواهند: زن، زندگی، آزادی» (۲۰۲۴). مقالات او در مورد سیاست، تاریخ و سینما در نشریات متعددی منتشر شده‌اند از جمله نیویورک تایمز، واشنگتن پست و وال استریت ژورنال.
Kamran Matin is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Sussex University, UK, where he teaches international history, nationalism, and Middle East politics. His current research focuses on the theory of ‘uneven and combined development’, (nation-)state formation, nationalism, and the limits of postcolonial critique. He is the author of Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change (Routledge, 2013) and numerous articles and op-eds on Kurdish and Iranian politics, and the co-editor of Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016) and the director of Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT).
Nayereh Tohidi is a Professor Emerita and former Chair of Gender & Women’s Studies and the Founding Director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (2011-2021) at California State University, Northridge. She is also a Research Associate in the Program of Iranian Studies at UCLA coordinating its “Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran” since 2003. She received her MA and Ph.D. from the Universities of Tehran and Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in Educational Psychology and Sociology. She is a recipient of several post-doctoral fellowships and research awards, including a National Endowment for Humanities grant, a year of Fulbright lectureship and research at the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan; universities of Harvard and Stanford, the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center, and Keddie-Balzan Fellowship at UCLA. Her teaching and research expertise include gender and sustainable development; women’s movements and feminisms; women and Islam; globalization, ethnicity, and democracy in Iran and the post-Soviet Caucasus.
Her extensive publications include editorship or authorship of three books and numerous articles and interviews in peer-reviewed academic and policy-oriented journals. Tohidi has integrated academic excellence with transnational human/women’s rights activism. She represented women NGOs at the UN-sponsored third and fourth World Conferences on Women in Nairobi and Beijing. She has also served as a consultant for the UN agencies (UNICEF and UNDP) on issues concerning children and women’s rights and status in the Caucasus and the Middle East. Since 2015, she has also joined the faculty board of the online Iran Academia of the Institute for Social Sciences in the Hague.
Kazem Alamdari, received his Ph. D. in sociology from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urban, his MA in Educational Administration from Illinois State University, and his BS from the University of Tehran in Psychology. He has taught at various universities, including UCLA, CSULA, and CSUN. Alamdari has published Ten books and numerous articles in English and Persian, including:
1. Civil Society: Theories, Contexts, and Experiences, 2015;
2. Why the Reform Failed: A Critical Study of the Eight Year Reform Era in Iran: 1997-2005, 2008;
3. Why the Middle East Lagged Behind: The Case of Iran 2004;
4. The Global Crisis: A Critique of the Clash of Civilizations and Dialogue Among Civilizations, 2003; and
5. a best seller that reached to 19th edition Why Iran Lagged Behind and the West Moved Forward, 2000 – 2014.
His latest articles include: “Global Civil-Society Movements: What the World Social Forum Can Do to Change the World’s Situation,” Sociology and Criminology, 2014, 2:2. His article “Religion and Development Revisited: Comparing Islam and Christianity with Reference to the Case of Iran,” in the Journal of Developing Societies, London: Sage, Vol 20 (1-2), has been one of “The 50 Most-Frequently-Read Articles” in five years, reaching number 2 in January 2005. Alamdari was the recipient of a fellowship from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) in Japan, Kyushu University in 1997. As a public intellectual, he is frequently featured in the media and presents lectures at national and international conferences in different parts of the world.
کاظم کردوانی، جامعه شناس (از “مدرسه مطالعات عالی علوم اجتماعی – پاریس “) و پژوهشگر و دارای نشان نخل های آکادمیک وزارت آموزش ملی و تحقیقات و فناوری فرانسه، استاد سابق دانشگاه، عضو و دبیر سابق کانون نویسندگان ایران، دبیر سابق کنفدراسیون جهانی دانشجویان ایرانی، عضو مؤسس و دبیر “شورای بازنگری در شیوه ی نگارش خط فارسی”، عضو مؤسس “کمیته دفاع از حقوق قربانیان قتل های زنجیره ای” است. علاوه بر شرکت مستمر در فعالیت های فرهنگی واجتماعی ایرا ن وی سرمقاله نویس و عضو هیئت تحریره ی نشریه های مستقل سیاسی، اجتماعی، و فرهنگی (جامعه سالم، آدینه، کلک، ترجمه و …) بوده است. وی همچنین در حوزه های زبان وادبیات ومسایل اجتماعی وسیاسی ایران به کارهای پژوهشی پرداخته است و پژوهش های منتشر شده او از جمله درباره آثار مارسل پروست، آندره مالرو، آل احمد، شاملو، اخوان ثالث است.
Parastou Forouhar, writer, artist, a human right activist, was born in Tehran, Iran. She studied art at the University of Tehran from 1984 to 1990 and earned her MA from the Aufbaustudium an der Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Offenbach, Germany in 1994. While living in Germany, in 1998 the politically motivated murder of her parents, Dariush Forouhar and Parvaneh Forouhar were carried out in Iran. As a result, the subject matter of her work is largely autobiographical. Themes of her work include gender and identity, particularly the lives and sexuality of women, as well as religious and political issues pertaining to Iran.
Forouhar works across a variety of media, combining an affinity with ornament, pattern, calligraphic form and symmetry with a delicate aesthetic that belies the violence of her subject matter. She has produced many site-specific installation pieces, animations, digital drawings, and photographs as well as works on canvas. She has had a number of solo exhibitions worldwide, particularly in Germany. Though the inspiration behind Forouhar’s subject matter may be tragic, her work has a great emotional range: the results are sometimes macabre, occasionally darkly humorous, and often purely joyful.
In addition to her art works, Parastou Forouhar has authored two books; “ Bekhan be Naam Iran” in Persian and “Sarzaminy ke dar aan Pedar va Madaram be Ghatl Residand – Ebraz Eshgh be Iran” in German.
Monireh Baradaran is a former political prisoner who spent nine years (1981-1990) in Tehran’s prisons. Since 1991 that she settled in Germany as a refugee and has focused her activities on fighting against torture and the death penalty. She has authored several books about the psychology of torture, and evaluation of Truth Commissions. Her 1997 memoir “The simple Truth” has been translated into German, Dutch, Danish and earned her the Medal of Karl von Ossietzky of the International League for Human Rights. Currently she is the editor of the Persian internet-magazine Bidaran (dedicated to the memory of the victims of political persecution in Iran), and collaborates with Amnesty International – Germany, as well as Rastyad Collective in documenting political executions of the 1980s in Iran.
Dr. Mohammad Reza Nikfar, is a philosopher and lecturer at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Iran Academia), as well as the Chief Editor of Zamaneh Media. He has authored many articles and his books in Farsi and German include: “Violence, Human Rights and Civil Society”, “Critique of Political Theology”, “At the Dead-End of Time, Introduction to the Philosophy of Heidegger”, “The Concept of Peace” and “Faith & Technique” among others.
Farzad Seifikaran, is an Iranian-Dutch author and journalist born in September 1987 in Sanandaj. He has studied Persian Literature in Iran and Investigative Journalism in the Netherlands. At present he is an investigative journalist and the director of the human rights section in Radio Zamaneh and has published many investigative reports in the area of politics, social and security issues and human rights.
He has been writing on different subjects for many years as well as collaborating with various publications and media inside and outside of Iran. Since 2017 he has created the Roonak Publishing for the promotion of publishing in exile, countering the censorship and supporting the writers inside and outside of Iran. It has published more than 50 titles in Farsi, Kurdish, English and Dutch.
In 2017 he became an honorary member of the Exiled Writers and Journalists in the Netherlands. He is also a member of the Dutch and European Journalists Union, as well as a member of the International Federation of Journalists.
NEDA TOLOUI-SEMNANI is an award-winning journalist and author. Her work has appeared in various publications including VICE News and The Washington Post among others, and it has been nominated for seven Emmys and garnered two. Her first book, They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents was published in 2022 by Little A.
Soudabeh Ashrafi is an award-winning Iranian writer and a retired librarian, currently residing in Oakland California. Born in Iran, she has lived in the United States since 1985. Her three published books include a short story collection titled Farda Mibinamat (I’ll See You Tomorrow), Mahiha dar Shab Mikhaband (Fish Sleep at Night) a novel, and Cuba Jazireye Bitaab (Cuba, the Restless Island); Three Travelogues to Cuba, 2015-2020.
Soudabeh won her first literary award, Sadegh Hedayat Foundation Short Story Award, for Otaghi, Khiali (a Room, a Hallucination), in 2000. Her novel, Fish Sleep at Night, was chosen by the Meheregaan-e Adab, and the Golshiri Foundation Award for the best Novel of the year in 2004. Billy, from her short story collection also won the Golshiri Foundation Award for best short story in 2007.
Elham Hoominfar is an assistant professor in the Global Health Studies Program at Northwestern University. Hoominfar is a sociologist whose research expertise focuses on intersections of environment and society and understanding of social inequalities and social movements with an interdisciplinary approach. She received her first master’s degree in the sociology of development at the University of Tehran, where she also got her bachelor’s degree in sociology. Before she left Iran, she maintained an active research agenda and she was involved in various research and teaching projects in different institutes. She received her second master’s in Cross-Cultural and International Education program at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, and her PhD in sociology from Utah State University. Her PhD project focused on marketization of water and environmental movements in Iran and the US.
Hoominfar has extensive teaching experience in the United States and Iran. She employs a student-centered learning method and a critical view for teaching. She is currently researching environmental justice, water governance, commodification of nature and social resistances with an emphasis on political economy in the Global South and North. She has focused on marginalized groups, and examined issues such as development, natural disasters and social inequality in an array of research publications in both Persian and English.
Chowra Makaremi is a writer, director and anthropologist at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She has conducted fieldwork and coordinated several research collectives on border control in Europe. She is working on post-revolution violence in Iran and leading the ERC research program “Off-Site” on this subject. She published Aziz’s Notebook at the Iranian revolution (Gallimard, 2011) and with Hannah Darabi Enghelab Street. A revolution through books 1979-83 (Le Bal/Spector, 2019). She directed the documentary movie Hitch. An Iranian Story (2019, Alter Ego, France, 78 min.).
Touraj Atabaki is Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History and Emeritus Professor of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at Leiden University.
He studied first theoretical physics and then history in Birckbeck College, University of London and then had his PhD in 1991 from University of Utrecht. Atabaki worked at Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam and Leiden University where he held the Chair of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia. Atabaki’s earlier research interest encompassed historiography, ethnic studies and the practice of authoritarianism in Iran, the Ottoman/Turkey and everyday Stalinism in the Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus. However, in the last ten years his research interest has focused more on the labour history and the history of work and has coordinated a project on the hundred years’ social history of labour in the Iranian oil industry, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for scientific Research. Touraj Atabaki has written extensively on the nineteenth- twentieth century history of Iran, Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Atabaki has published twenty books and numerous articles and book chapters. His latest books are:
– Social History of the Iranian oil Industry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
– Victims of Their Faith. The Lives and Fates of Iranian Political Activists and Migrant Workers in the Interwar Soviet Union. Co-author Lana Ravandi Fadaii (Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020) Second Edition.
– Working for Oil. Co-editors Elisabetta Bini, Kaveh Ehsani (London: Palgarve Macmillan, 2018)
Dr. Sadreddin Elahi, born in 1934 in Tehran-Iran, was a renowned veteran writer, critic, researcher, translator, poet, and was one of Iran ’s most prominent journalists. He was one of the first writers of serialized fiction in Iran. He was the founder and editor of the Sport Magazine, “Keyhan Varzeshi”, established in 1955. He taught Journalism in The College of Communication Sciences in Iran and was one of the initiators of the modern style of conversational dialogue in newspaper journalism. He was an outstanding field reporter as his reports from the Algerian War for Independence demonstrated. Dr. Elahi has authored many books including: “Ba Saadi dar Bazercheh Zendeghi”, “Doori-ha va Delghiri-ha”, “Naghde Bi Ghash – Collected Conversations of Sadreddin Elahi with Parviz Khanlari”,”Tefl Sad Saleyi be nam Sher Now-Collection of dialogues and interviews with renowned poet Nader Naderpour”, “Maghaleh ha va Moghooleha”, and “Seyed Zia- Mard aval ya dovom Coup d ‘Etat”.
Bagher Momeni, born in 1926 in Kermanshah-Iran, is a renowned scholar of modern Iran, public intellectual and left wing political activist. He has researched, translated, and written many articles and books. Noghteh Resources on Iran has recently published “Bagher Momeni, A Political and Intellectual Life”, a two volume book subtitled: “Rahroei dar rah beepayan”.
Fathali M. Moghaddam is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. Since 2014 he has served as Editor-in-Chief, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (an APA journal).
Dr. Moghaddam was born in Iran, educated from an early age in England, and returned to Iran with the revolution in 1979. He was researching and teaching in Iran during the hostage taking crisis and the first three years of the Iran-Iraq War. After work for the United Nations, he researched and taught at McGill University, Canada, from 1984, before moving to Georgetown in 1990. He has published about 30 books and 300 papers, and received a number of prestigious academic awards.
Nahid Kalbasi, Assistant Professor of economics at Fort Hays State University, is an experienced economist with PhD in economics from George Mason University and specialization in international finance and monetary policy. She has several years of research experience in econometric modelling, macroeconomics, international finance, and risk analysis in think tanks and academia.
She has published several articles across different disciplines in peer reviewed journals on Macroeconomics, International Economics, Econometric Modelling, Corporate Finance, Risk Management, and country risk.
Mehdi Aslani (born 1959 in Tehran), was a prisoner of conscience in the Islamic Republic of Iran from February 1985 until March 1989. Since his departure from Iran in 1997, he has been engaged as a human rights activist and independent writer in Germany. Mehdi Aslani has spent approximately two years collecting these documents through meticulous research and outreach to the victims’ families both in and outside of Iran.
Massud Alemi is a bilingual writer/translator currently living in Maryland. He was born in Tehran, Iran, and emigrated to the United States for higher education in 1977. The Islamic Revolution of 1979 provided the excuse he needed to study history. He’s been preoccupied with the roots of the Islamic revolution in the country of his birth, a preoccupation that led him to writing. He graduated from George Mason University in Virginia, and went on to get an MBA. His debut novel, Interruptions, was published in 2008. He most recently translated into Persian The Federalist Papers, “the most instructive treatise we possess on federal government,” according to Alexis de Tocqueville. He included in this volume a translation of the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.
seminar on Iran, Islam and modernity. Abbas Milani. Part I. April 10, 2016 The seminar, conducted in Persian, will first inquire into the nature of modernity, debates in Iran and in the west about its origins, desirability and constituent elements, followed by a discussion of the rise of Shiism, its…
علیرضا مناف زاده دارای دیپلم تحصیلات عالی در رشتۀ تاریخ و جامعه‌شناسی از دانشکدۀ عالی علوم اجتماعی پاریس است. وی مقاله‌های زیادی دربارۀ ایران و فرانسه به فارسی در مجله‌هایی مانند “ایران نامه” در آمریکا و “نگاه نو” در ایران چاپ کرده است. او چندین کتاب به زبان فارسی ترجمه کرده و همچنین دو کتاب به نام های “احمد کسروی، مردی که می‌خواست ایران را از تاریک اندیشی برهاند” و “ساخت و پرداخت هویتی در ایران” به زبان فرانسه به چاپ رسانده است. درحال حاضربا بخش فرانسوی «رادیو بین‌المللی فرانسه» کار می‌کند و مقاله‌های او در آنجا به چاپ می رسد و هرهفته نیز یک برنامۀ دوزبانه (فارسی و فرانسه) برای این رادیو درزمینۀ مسائل فرهنگی و تاریخی و فلسفی تهیه می‌کند.
Fazel Gheybi was born 1954 into a Bahai family with Zoroastrian background in Tehran. In his early years he learned the Bahai-writings from Farhang Holakouee. He finished his studies with emphasis on computer engineering in 1983 in Germany. Meanwhile he showed interest in Marxism and sympathized with the “Tudeh-Party”, which he was turned away from in 1984. Fazel Gheybi works at the Technical University of Darmstadt, at the Institute of Experimental Nuclear Physics. After attending Philosophy courses in Frankfurt for 2 years, he continued the self-study of Philosophy and History. His work “Modern Philosophy and Iran” was published in 2011.
Fereshteh Ghazi is an Iranian journalist. She has worked in more than 18 newspapers in Iran which all have been banned: Khordad, Hammihan, Hambastegi, Bonyan, Etemad. She was arrested in 2004 and was deprived to work until 2007 that she left Iran. Ever since, she has worked in Roozonline website, publishing more than a thousand reports and interviews, mostly concentrated on cases of human rights, especially those who were killed in post-election events, political prisoners and executions.
After receiving his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985, Ali Ferdowsi studied as a post-doctoral fellow in the Graduate Program in Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught for three years as a visiting professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Tokyo University for Foreign Studies in Japan.
After working for five years as an International Specialist for NHK (Japan Broadcast Corporation), he returned to the United States in 1997 and began teaching in the Department of History and Political Science at Notre Dame de Namur University.
Bahram Beyzaie is one of Iran’s most acclaimed filmmakers, playwrights, and scholars of the history of Iranian theater, both secular and religious. He was a leader of the generation of filmmakers known as the Iranian New Wave, beginning in the late 1960s, and has since directed more than a dozen prize-winning films. He has also conducted pioneering research into the roots of ancient legends derived from Indo-Iranian mythology and known collectively as A Thousand and One Nights. He is that rare artist who is also an erudite critic and scholar of his myriad crafts.
Born in Tehran, Beyzaie was for many years the head of the Theatre Arts Department at Tehran University. His two volume study of the history of Iranian theatre is still considered the authoritative account of this history. Since his arrival at Stanford as the Bita Daryabari Lecturer of Persian Studies, he has staged several of his plays and given workshops on Iranian mythology and cinema. He currently teaches courses on Iranian theatre and cinema.
Darioush Ashouri studied at the Faculty of Law, Political Sciences and Economics of the University of Tehran, and has been visiting professor of Persian language and literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Ashoori taught at the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford, and lectured on political philosophy and political sociology at the University of Tehran. From 1970 to 1978 Ashoori was a member of the second Academy of Persian Language.
Ashoori has worked extensively as an author, essayist, translator, literary interpreter, encyclopedist, and lexicologist. His intellectual interests cover a wide interdisciplinary range, including political sciences, literature, philosophy and linguistics. His main domain of intellectual focus is the cultural and linguistic matters of his native country, Iran, as a Third World country encountering modernity.
He has made vast contributions to the development of the Persian vocabulary and terminology in the domains of human sciences and philosophy by coining new words and modifying existing ones. His works in this domain are compiled in his Farhang-e ‘olum-e ensāni (A Dictionary of Human Sciences). Among his major works stands a hermeneutical, intertextual study of the Divan of Hafez (Erfān o rendi dar she’r-e Hafez) which introduces a new approach to the understanding of the great classical poet. As translator, he has translated numerous classical literary and philosophical works by Nietzsche, Machiavelli, Shakespeare and others into Persian.
Holding a PhD degree in philosophy from the University of London and a native of Mashad, Khorasan Province, Esmail Khoi is a philosophical poet, whose work has been frequently commented in the country.
Khoi, who received his secondary education in Meshed, immigrated abroad after the victory of Islamic Revolution and he is presently teaching or researching in England (2004). The loss of his son was a big shock for the poet and made him more and more despondent.
His focus on art gives special vigor and firmness to his structure. When deeply immersed in literature, Esmail makes a medium for social discourse and philosophical speculation.
His heavy and artistic poetry has an epic tune, which proves that poets bred in Khorasan, cannot forget their epic ancestors.
His language is eloquent, ringing and pedantic with well-selected words.
Works
On the Galloping Stallion of Earth, On the Roof of Whirlwind, Of Those Seafarers, Beyond the Night of the Present, To Sit by the Seashore and Exist, We Who Existed and Slumbering at the Ever Every Morning London.
Dr. Abbas Milani is the director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of The Shah, Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979, The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution, Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran, Encounters with Modernity, On Democracy and Socialism, and Tales of two Cities: a Persian Memoir.
Dr Ahmed Shaheed is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Essex in Colchester, England and at the City University of New York in the United States. He served as Foreign Minister of the Republic of Maldives from 2005 to 2007 and from 2008 to 2010, during which he led the country’s efforts to sign and ratify all nine international human rights Conventions; to implement them in law and practice; and to improving the country’s compliance with its UN Treaty Body reporting obligations. Dr Shaheed also opened the Permanent Mission of the Maldives in Geneva in 2006 to engage with the United Nations Human Rights Council; established a non-governmental human rights organisation in the Maldives to contributed to civil society’s work to advance respect for human rights in the country; and later worked as a member of the Presidential Commission to Investigate Corruption and as a foreign policy advisor to the President of the Maldives. On 17 June 2011, the President of the UN Human Rights Council appointed Dr Shaheed, as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Mr Shaheed commenced his duties officially on 1 August 2011. He has since submitted four reports to the United General Assembly and the Human Rights Council on the human rights situation in the country.
Massoud Noghrehkar is an activist, researcher and a very prolific writer living in the United States. He has authored many books in variety of fields including; the history of intellectual movement in Iran and Iranian Writers’ Association; dissent and mass murder of dissidents in Iran; psychology and medicine; and novels & short stories. His latest novel is titled “Bachehay-e Amagh”.
Mahnaz Matin and Naser Mohajer
On March 6, 1979, only a few weeks after assuming political power, Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced “… women must be clothed according to religious standards.” Offended and outraged by the Ayatollah’s decree and its domineering manner, thousands of women defiantly poured into the streets of Tehran on March 8, 1979 chanting slogans such as “In the dawn of freedom, there is an absence of freedom” and “We didn’t make a revolution to go backwards.” This first resistance movement against the Iranian Islamic theocracy, as well as the international movement in solidarity with secular Iranian women, is documented in detail and analyzed in depth by Mahnaz Matin and Nasser Mohajer in a two-volume book, just published by Noghteh Books.
Hadi Ghaemi is an internationally recognized expert on Iran and human rights. In 2008, together with international human rights activists in the Netherlands, he founded the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), formerly the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. CHRI has since become a leading organization documenting human rights violations in Iran and building international coalitions to support human rights.
Previously, Ghaemi worked with Human Rights Watch, joining the organization in 2004 as the Iran and United Arab Emirates researcher. His work at Human Rights Watch focused international attention on the plight of migrant workers in Dubai, as well as the repression of civil society in Iran. After the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, he was a member of the first UN-commissioned human rights fact-finding mission to Afghanistan. Between 2001 and 2004, he worked with NGOs focusing on Afghanistan and Iraq.
Born in Iran, Ghaemi came to the United States in 1983 as a student and received his doctorate in physics from Boston University in 1994. He was a professor of physics at City University of New York until 2000. His groundbreaking research in nanophysics has been published in prestigious scientific journals such as Nature, and he holds four patents in this field.
Shaida Mohammadi: In mythology, time is a nonlinear revolving phenomenon, but in contemporary literature it is about an orderly course of events. Time for a narrator is the time in which she/he lives and can cognitively understand, a time which only finds meaning in ‘before’ and ‘after’; and it is within this chronological time-frame that the narrator can recall and record events. I do the same in my poetry, except for the strong element of nostalgia, the deep longing for the ‘lost time’ and the desire to make those fantasies to come alive in my time.
Dr. Sadreddin Elahi in conversation with Dr. Abbas Milani. On the Occasion of the Publishing of “Seyyed Zia”
Dr. Sadreddin Elahi, veteran writer, critic, researcher, translator, poet is one of Iran’s most prominent journalists, and one of the first writers of serialized fiction in Iran. He was the founder and editor of “Keyhan Varzeshi” established in 1955. He taught Journalism in The College of Communication Sciences in Iran, and he is one of the initiators of the modern style of conversational dialogue in newspaper journalism. He is also an outstanding field reporter as his reports from the Algerian War for Independence demonstrated. Dr. Elahi is the author of “Ba Saadi dar Bazercheh Zendeghi”, “Doori-ha va Delghiri-ha”, “Naghde Bee Ghash – Collected Conversations of Sadreddin Elahi with Parviz Khanlari”. Dr. Elahi’s new book is based on his extensive interviews with Seyyed Zia. The book includes much new information on Seyyed Zia and other prominent participants in the coup d’état of Esfand 1299 (February 1921).
Dr. Mohammad Reza Nikfar is a writer and researcher in the field of political philosophy. He has authored many articles and his books in Farsi and German include: “Violence, Human Rights and Civil Society”, “Critique of Political Theology”, “At the Dead-End of Time, Introduction to the Philosophy of Heidegger”, “The Concept of Peace” and “Faith & Technique” among others. Dr. Nikfar is currently the editor-in-chief of “Radio Zamaneh”.