The enigmas of Iran
Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Spain 30/06/2008 to 01/07/2008
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Two days of debates and films, organised jointly by FRIDE in Madrid and the Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, brought to light the origin of the misunderstandings between Iran and the West and discussed diplomatic possibilities for reducing tensions and establishing more open relations.
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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 )
The enigmas of Iran program
Spanish (409 kB)
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
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