Mohamad Tavakoli – a professor of history and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations – delivers the opening address at the conference on “Intellectual Othering and the Baha’i Question in Iran,” which commenced at the University of Toronto on Friday, 1 July. Seated on the panel are, from left to right, Linda Northrup, University of Toronto; Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland; and Abbas Amanat, Yale University.
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