Berkeley Lecture Series Presents:
A Lecture by
Mr. Mohammad Ja’fari
Former Managing editor of the daily newspaper “Engelab Eslami”
Topic:
“How Khomeini turned the Islamic Revolution into a dictatorship”
Place: UC Berkeley, 254 Barrows Hall (Second floor)
Date: Sunday, July 7, 2019
Time: 4:00 pm
The talk focuses on “How Khomeini turned the Islamic Revolution into a dictatorship: hostage taking at the US Embassy in Tehran, ‘Cultural Revolution’, and Iran-Iraq war”
Mohammad Ja’fari was the managing editor and the director on the daily newspaper “Engelab Eslami”, established by Mr. Bani Sadr, in June 1979, a few months before Bani Sadr became the first Iranian president. Mr. Ja’fari was active in the paper from the beginning until his arrest in June 1981.
He was born in 1944 in the village of Marbin in the county of Ardestan, Isfahan Province. After graduating from high school and spending two years in the Literacy Corps (Sepah Danesh), he became a government teacher and taught for two years in the northern part of Tehran (Oshan -Fasham). He left Iran in 1969 for Germany where he earned a Master’s Degree in Chemistry.
While outside the country he joined the Union of Islamic Student Associations and became close to Mr. Bani Sadr. He returned to Iran right after Ayatollah Khomeini, a few days before the revolution. In June 1981 he was arrested and eventually spent more than five years in prison. Six years after his release from prison he went to England in 1992, where he earned a Master’s Degree in X-Ray Science and Technology.
He has published several books and many articles about his life, Islam, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and many aspects of Iran’s contemporary history.
You can find more information on his website: http://mohammadjafarim.com/ (http://mohammadjafarim.com/)
Lecture is in Persian
Suggested Donation: $10:00
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