Department of International Relations public lecture
Date: Monday 23 February 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Fred Halliday
Chair: Professor Michael Cox
Thirty years after the fall of the Shah of Iran and the advent of Ayatollah Khomeini to power, the Iranian revolution continues to exert a dynamic ideological and political influence across the Middle East. In a retrospective analysis of the revolutionary period itself, some of whose decisive moments he witnessed at first hand, and of the subsequent development of the Islamic Republic Professor Fred Halliday will attempt to set these dramatic events in context, as much that of the comparative study of revolutions as of the history of the contemporary Middle East.
Fred Halliday is ICREA research professor at the Barcelona Institute for International Studies (IBEI) and emeritus professor of International Relations at LSE. His Iran: Dictatorship and Development (Penguin, 1978) was, published on the eve of the revolution, was translated into six languages, among them Persian, Arabic and Chinese.
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