Podcasts about afshin marashi

Afshin Marashi interviews Eric Lob, Assistant Professor of Politics & International Relations at Florida International University.

Afshin Marashi interviews Dr. Nahid Siamdoust, author of the book Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran.

Afshin Marashi interviews Professor Lior Sternfeldabout his new book, "Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran."

Afshin Marashi, interviews Professor Manata Hashemi about her ongoing research on the sociology of morality and mobility in contemporary Iran.

Joshua Landis joins Suzette Grillot for a conversation about the situation in Iraq and the U.S. response to the escalating violence by Sunni militants. And Rebecca Cruise and University of Oklahoma Iranian Studies professor Afshin Marashi speak with Mohamad Tavakoli, a professor of history and Near and Middle Eastern civilizations at the University of Toronto. He studies Persianate society – arguing that in the pre-modern world, Iranians, the Ottoman Empire, the South Asian Indian Mogul empire, and even Central Asians all spoke a common language.

This talk examines the life and work of Dinshah Irani, a prominent Parsi scholar, lawyer, and philanthropist who was a key intellectual intermediary between the Parsi community of Bombay and the intellectual community of Iranian nationalists during the 1920s and 1930s. Dr. Marashi details the role played by Irani in patronizing the publication of Zoroastrian-themed printed works in Bombay that were intended for export to the reading market in Iran, and the important role the Parsi community of Bombay played in the revival of Iranian antiquity during the early twentieth century. He will also highlight the transnational cultural and intellectual history of Iranian nationalism during the Reza Shah period. Afshin Marashi is the Farzaneh Family Chair in Iranian Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. His area of specialization is the cultural and intellectual history of nationalism in nineteenth and twentieth century Iran. He also writes and teaches in the field of comparative nationalism studies. In addition to his teaching and research efforts, Professor Marashi is also the director of Iranian Studies programming in the College of International Studies at OU. He received his BA in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and his PhD in History from UCLA in 2003.

Since the breaking of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Iran following the 1979/1980 hostage crisis, Switzerland has bridged the diplomatic and political gap between Washington and Tehran. Deputy Chief of Mission at the Swiss Embassy in Washington, D.C. Guillaume Scheurer joins Joshua Landis and Afshin Marashi for a conversation on the current diplomatic impasse between Iran and the United States.