Berkeley Lecture Series presents:
A Talk by Hamid Shokat,
Historian, Visiting from Germany
On the occasion of the 100th Birthday of Shapour Bakhtiar and Publication of
“Flight into Darkness – A Political Biography of Shapour Bakhtiar”
Hamid Shokat is a prolific writer of political history. He has published “Background on the Transition to the One-Party System in Soviet Russia, 1917-1921”, “The Lost Years – From the October Revolution to Lenin’s Death”, “History of the Confederation of Iranian Students” in two volumes, and four volumes in a series of books titled “An Inside Look into the Iranian Left Movement – Conversations with Mehdi Khanbaba Tehrani, Iraj Kashkuli, Koroush Lashaii and Mohsen Rezvani”, “The Political Biography of Ahmad Qavam” (Qavam-os-Saltana), one of the most controversial and pivotal figures of Iran in the twentieth century and most recently “Flight into Darkness – A Political Biography of Shapour Bakhtiar”, The last Prime Minister of Iran under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
Date: Sunday, January 25, 2015
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Place: 60 Evans Hall
University of California Berkeley
Lecture in Persian
Suggested Donation: $10:00 (No donation expected from students)