First Name: Mehrdad Last Name: Amanat Institutional Affiliation : Independent Scholar Academic Bio: Born in Tehran, Mehrdad Amanat completed an engineering degree from UCLA (1976), a Master’s degree in Islamic Studies from UCLA (1979), and…
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"In Their Place": Marking and Unmarking Shi'ism in Pahlavi Iran.
Dr. Aaron Vahid Sealy, in his Ph.D. thesis, includes the case of the Baha’is in Iran. With close to 400 references to the Baha’i Faith and the Baha’is in Iran, Dr. Sealy covers many cultural,…
Scientists call for release of Baha’i educators
[BWNS 20 March 2012] COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND,United States — An international body that monitors the human rights of scientists around the world, and assists those in need, is urging the Iranian authorities to free imprisoned…
Canadians Can Help Stop the Persecution of Iran’s Baha’i
By Allan Rock, Lloyd Axworthy [huffingtonpost.ca, 5-Jan-2012] With the eyes of the world on the Arab Spring, the populist struggles in Iran have faded from view. Yet some in Iran continue to face appalling levels…
Heads of medical schools urge Iran to release jailed Baha'i educators
[BWNS, 8 Dec. 2011] WASHINGTON, D.C., United States — Almost 50 leaders of medical education in the United States have joined the worldwide protest against the Iranian government’s persecution of Baha’i students and educators. Forty-eight Deans…
SBS News – Aussies rally for Bahai academics
The Aussies rally covered by SBS [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-z5gibmukc[/youtube]
Call for Iran to release Baha’i academics
[The Australian, 10 Oct. 2011, JILL ROWBOTHAM] ACADEMICS in Australia are to protest to the Iranian ambassador about educational discrimination against Baha’is in their homeland. Fazel Naghdy has gathered signatures from 73 academics, including University…
World religious experts, educators condemn Iran’s attack on Baha’is
[Green Heritage News, 10 Oct. 2011] NEW YORK, Carol Forsloff – Iran’s persecution of Baha’is continues in a country where those of minority religious views not only have their spiritual life restricted but their education as…
Religious academics denounce persecution against Iran's Baha'i minority
[The Telegraph, 10 Oct. 2011] By Adrian Blomfield, Middle East Correspondent. The move comes after authorities in Tehran stepped up measures to prevent members of the faith receiving a university education. In a letter to The Daily…
‘Electric’ program on Iran’s struggle for human rights sponsored by Baha’is in Southern California
[bahai.us 29 Sep 2011] Hollywood star Rainn Wilson and actress/activist Shiva Rose hosted an audience of 1,300 at the Kavli Theatre in Thousand Oaks, CA, in mid-September for an evening dedicated to human rights in Iran.
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Board Demands Immediate Release of Faculty and Staff of the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education in Iran
CHICO, Calif., July 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following was written by Scholars for Peace in the Middle EastBoard of Directors: The undersigned members of the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), a…
Universities Australia speaks out after arrest of Baha’i educators
(bahai.org.au, 5 July 2011) The peak body representing universities throughout Australia has repeated its concerns about the denial of university education to members of the Baha’i Faith in Iran, a Sydney seminar has been told. Universities…
Intellectual Othering and the Baha’i Question in Iran
A conference on Intellectual Othering and the Baha’i Question in Iran was held in Toronto on 1-3 July 2011 (see here and here). Details including conference booklet, list and biography of speakers, and topics can…
Academic conference explores "othering" of
TORONTO — Iranian scholars, many from globally prominent universities, gathered here for a groundbreaking academic conference on the persecution of Iran’s Baha’is. Titled “Intellectual Othering and the Baha’i Question in Iran,” the conference examined how Iranian…
Symposium on “Intellectual Othering and the Baha’i Question in Iran”, University of Toronto
The Toronto Initiative for Iranian Studied in corporation with Foundation for Iranian Studies presents an International Symposium onIntellectual Othering and the Baha’i Question in Iran at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July 1-3, 2011.…
Symposium on "Intellectual Othering and the Baha'i Question in Iran", University of Toronto
The Toronto Initiative for Iranian Studied in corporation with Foundation for Iranian Studies presents an International Symposium on Intellectual Othering and the Baha’i Question in Iran at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July…
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