Iran's Green Movement: The New Civil Rights Struggle -- A Panel Discussion

Iran's Green Movement: The New Civil Rights Struggle -- A Panel Discussion

Thursday, February 25
7:30pm
The Evergreen State College
Lecture Hall 1
Free!

Panelists will include Columbia professor Dr. Hamid Dabashi, author of "Iran: A People Interrupted," who will give a brief history of the Iranian civil rights movement; Shadi Mokhtari, author of "Abu Ghraib: Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East," who will discuss the state of human rights in Iran; and Dr. Trita Parsi, president of National Iranian American Council and author of "Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dialogue of Iran, Israel and the United States," who will discuss US foreign policy toward Iran and how the civil rights movement will influence greater Middle East politics.

Sponsored by the Mideast Solidarity Project (MSP) and Amnesty International TESC
and the Evergreen programs Political Economy and Social Movements,
Transforming the Art of War, and Religion and Society