Somewhere in the dream-like image of the Middle East, mystery and ignorance fuse to demonize Iran as an instigator of global terror and a threat to Western values. In truth, much of what we think of as American comes from the old Persian empire: Orange juice, coffee, reading newspapers and more. Join us to explore a culture twenty times older and no less worthy of respect than our own.
Hamid Tehrani, Persian Service Editor for Global Voices Online
Rouhollah K. Ramazani, Professor Emeritus of Politics at University of Virginia
Richard Bulliet, Professor of History Middle East Institute, Columbia University
Arash Naraghi, PhD candidate of philosophy at University of California, Santa Barbara
Houra Yavari, Senior Staff Associate at Columbia University, Center for Iranian Studies
(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)
Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Chuck Rogers
Associate Producer: Tammy Rae Scott, Kara Hochner
Production Engineer: Michael Schwartz
Music in this program: open- Unknown title by Alireza Ghalandarva courtesy of Alireza Ghalandarva; welcome- "A United Earth I" by Alan Stivell with Youssou N'Dour; Putumayo World Music; insert 1- "Rizeh Rizeh" by Various Artists, Caltex Records; break 1- "Nei" by Various Artists, courtesy of Caltex Records; break 2- "Oh, Abraham" by Amy Carol Webb, Zebra Records; bottom of the hour billboard- "A United Earth I" by Alan Stivell with Youssou N'Dour, Putumayo World Music; break 3- "Renge Tehran" by Various Artists, Caltex Records;, close and credits- "Mokon Hamchin" by Various Artists, Caltex Records.
This program was funded by The Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Duration: 55:00 minutes
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Global Voices Online is a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society founded at Harvard Law School. They monitor blogs in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South America, Europe and other regions. Hamid Tehrani monitors Iranian blogs like http://www.webneveshteha.com/en/weblog/, http://www.meydaan.com/English/Default.aspx, http://kamangir.net/ and http://viewfromiran.blogspot.com/.
Rouhollah K. Ramazani is Professor emeritus of Politics and is known for his Iranian studies in America. Ramazani has written twelve books and more then 100 articles on Iran’s politics; some which have been translated into Arabic, Persian and Turkish.
Richard Bulliet, is a professor of history at the Middle East Institute at Colombia University. that Muslim and Western cultures share more then the average person thinks. Bulliet’s most recent book, The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization examines this very idea that European and Muslim history are deeply linked.
Arash Naraghi is an expert on moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, Islamic mysticism, and modern Islamic theology. Naraghi addresses the religious debate among different generations in Iran.
The Iranian press is censored by the Iranian government therefore many writers choose different ways of writing to express their thoughts and political views. Houra Yavari is an expert on Persian literature. She is the author of Psychoanalysis and Literature: Two Texts, Two Selves, Two Worlds and Living in the Mirror: A Literary Perspective. Yavari is also the Consulting Editor on Modern Persian Fiction to the Encyclopaedia Iranica.
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