FRIDE - The enigmas of Iran

The enigmas of Iran

Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Spain 30/06/2008 to 01/07/2008

Description

Two days of debates and films organized jointly by FRIDE in Madrid and the Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona which will attempt to bring to light the origin of the misunderstandings between Iran and the West, and discuss diplomatic possibilities for reducing tensions and establishing more open relations.

Program

30th of June /Cinema:
19h Iran: a revolution betrayed (Ahsan Adib). 1984, 60’, VOSE

20h Gilaneh (Mohsen Abdolvahab and Rakhshan Bani Etemad). Iran, 2005, 84’, VOSE

1st of July / Debate:
17.30h Introduction. Fred Halliday

18.00h Role of the West in Iran

19.30h History and Culture in Iran

Site:
Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona
(Montealegre, 5 )

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Collaborators

Participants

Fred Halliday, Research Professor at the ICREA in IBEL.
Rosemary Hollis, Director of the Olive Tree Israeli-Palestinian Programme in City University, London
Ali Ansari, Director of the Iranian Studies Institute in the University of St. Andrews, UK
Joannes Reissner, head of the Middle East and Africa Research Department in the German Institute of International Affairs and Security, in Berlin
Baquer Moin, Iranian journalist, former head of BBC Central Asia
Haleh Afshar, professor of Middle Eastern Politics at the University of York, and visiting professor in Islamic Law in the International Faculty of Comparative Law, University of Strasbourg.
Luciano Zaccara, director of Electoral Observation of Arab-Islamic Countries in the Autonomous University of Madrid, and member of the Iranian International Studies Association in Teheran.
Mariano Aguirre, Director of Peace, Security and Human Rights, FRIDE