UCLA faculty experts advisory: Iranians protest result of presidential election
More than 100,000 Iranian opposition supporters defied a government ban and massed in central Tehran today, protesting Friday's election victory by incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad and calling for an investigation into alleged voting irregularities. UCLA has experts.
Leonard Binder, distinguished professor of political science and past director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, is an internationally known specialist on Middle East politics and Islamic political thought.
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Media contact:
Elizabeth Kivowitz Boatright-Simon |310-206-1458 | ekivowitz@support.ucla.edu
M. Rahim Shayegan, assistant professor of Iranian in the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, is an expert on ancient Iran and can comment on the cultural implications of the current political and social unrest.
M. Rahim Shayegan, assistant professor of Iranian in the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, is an expert on ancient Iran and can comment on the cultural implications of the current political and social unrest.
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Media contact:
Elizabeth Kivowitz Boatright-Simon | 310-206-1458 | ekivowitz@support.ucla.edu
Shiva Falsafi, a lecturer in the UCLA Department of Women's Studies, is an expert on the history of social and political movements in Iran — including women's, labor and constitutional movements — and can comment on how current events are shaped by the history of civil-society activism.
Elizabeth Kivowitz Boatright-Simon | 310-206-1458 | ekivowitz@support.ucla.edu
This entry was edited on Dec. 19, 2011
