
Scholars Unravel Middle East Who Made Iran’s 1979 Revolution? Rethinking What “Revolution” Means | HbN S2E33
Who were the Iranians of the 1979 Revolution? Was it an Islamic revolution?
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. Naghmeh Sohrabi is a professor of Middle East History and the Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University.
This interview was initially published in our History Behind News Channel in October 2022, during the Mahsa Amini protests in Iran. She is the author of the book "Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe " and numerous articles on Iranian history, politics, and culture.
Her second book project it is tentatively titled “The Intimate Lives of a Revolution: Iran 1979”, which we talk about in this interview. And here is her academic website.
Adel Aali
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1. Opening and closing music of the program:
Santur: Peyman Heydarian playing on the Santur some Iranian music. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London on April 7th 2011.
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The Desert | The Grand Score
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