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Eentekhabat Majlis Hashtom va tagyir arayesh siyasi dar Iran (The 8th Parliamentary Elections and Political Changes in Iran)

A public lecture by Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, Harvard University

Sunday, January 13, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dodd Hall 121
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA United States

Fatemeh Haghighatjoo is a human rights activist and former parliamentarian in the 6th Majils from 2000 to 2004.  She is currently a Fellow in the Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. During her time in parliament, she was renowned as an articulate and fearless advocate of human rights and women’s rights in particular.  She writes extensively on human rights and has also published on educational and sociological issues.  She has previously held professorships at Tehran University and Shahid Behesti University, and was a fellow at MIT’s Center for International Relations. 

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This lecture is part of the Center's Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran.

 

Cost: Free

Special Instructions

Lecture will be presented in Persian.

For more information please contact

Peter Szanton, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Tel: (310) 825-1455
pszanton@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes