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Ahmad Ashraf
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Professor Ahmad Ashraf has taught sociology and social
history of Persia at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University,
Princeton University, and Tehran University. He is the author of several
books and numerous articles, including Historical Obstacles to the
Development of Capitalism in Iran (1980). His writings have covered
such topics as social hierarchies in Persia, traditon & modernity,
Iranian national identity, agrarian relations in Persia, and charismatic
leadership and theocratic rule in postrevolutionary Persia. Prof. Ashraf
has served on the editorial board of the Iranian Studies, International
Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, and Iran-Nameh. Since
1992, he has served as a Trustee-at-Large of the American Institute of
Iranian Studies.
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Mark
Gasiorowski
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Professor Mark Gasiorowski (Ph.D., University of North
Carolina, 1984) specializes in Third World politics, Middle East politics,
and comparative and international political economy. He is the author of U.S.
Foreign Policy and the Shah: Building a Client State in Iran (Cornell
University Press, 1991) he has coedited (with Nikki Keddie) Neither East
Nor West: Iran, the Soviet Union, and the United States (Yale
University Press, 1990) and (with Malcolm Byrne) Mohammad Mosaddeq and
the 1953 Coup in Iran (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,
forthcoming). He has published over two dozen scholarly articles in International
Journal of Middle East Studies, American Political Science Review,
Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Democracy, Studies
in Comparative International Development, International Studies
Quarterly, International Organization, Journal of Conflict
Resolution, Journal of Inter-American Studies and World
Affairs, Pacific Focus, Iranian Journal of International Studies, Global
Dialog, and in edited books. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Middle
East Centre, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford in the 2001-2002
academic year. He was a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law and
Political Science, Tehran University, in 1994, 1996, and 1998. He is a
member of the editorial boards of Political Research Quarterly, International
Political Economy Yearbook, and Discourse. He has served as Book
Review Editor for International Journal of Middle East Studies and CIRA
Bulletin. Mark Gasiorowski’s Web page is at http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/poli/people/pogasi.html
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Mehrdad
Hariri
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Mehrdad Hariri received his doctoral
degree in Veterinary Medicine from Tehran University and was
instructor in Shahid Beheshti University for four years. Then he moved
to Canada and after completing his masters degree in Cell Biology at the
University of Montreal, he started his PhD at the University of Toronto in
Cancer Genetics and Bioinformatics. He was the president of the Iranian student
association in university of Montreal, and has been very active in social
and cultural activities in IAUT, Agora and other Iranian associations.
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Nader
Hashemi
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Nader Hashemi is a Ph.D. Candidate in
the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is
working on a dissertation entitled: "Rethinking the Relationship
Between Religion, Secularism and Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for
Muslim Societies”. His writings have been published by McGill-Queen's
University Press, Princeton University Press, the Third World Quarterly,
Queen's Quarterly, Globe and Mail and the Journal of Church and State.
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Mohammad
Hassibi
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Mohammad Hassibi left Iran 28 years ago and has lived
in Austin, Texas for the past 21 years. He has been working on civil
engineering, oil and gas pipline projects. As the nephew of the late Kazem
Hassibi, one of the ministers in Mossadegh's cabinet, he has always been
involved in political and social matters. He has written many articles
regarding the political situation in Iran. For the past seven years he has
closely worked with Golshan Publisher. A series of his articles entitled
"Degar Andishi" can be found on www.golshan.com. He is also running the site www.chebayadkard.com.
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Hossein
Lajevardi
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Hossein Lajevardi is the president of Association des Chercheurs Iraniens (ACI). Here is a
summary of his professional activities.
Research Project Manager - Iranian Research and
Advice Centre
· PhD in
Sociology (Demography) from The Sorbonne, Paris - 1978
· Statistics and Demography Specialist - the Centre of Statistics of
Iran - 1967-1980
· Senior
Researcher - the Social Research and Study Institute, Tehran University - 1970 -1972
· Executive
Project Manager, Population Growth in Iran on behalf of United Nations
Development and Population
(UNDP) -1973 - 1976
· Senior
lecturer on Research Methodology, Tehran University and other Universities
- 1978 - 1982
· Various
Research Projects with French Universities and UN 1982 - 1992
Hossein Lajevardi’s Web page is at http://www.aciiran.com/hossein_ladjevardi.htm
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Alidad
Mafinezam
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Alidad Mafinezam is a post-doctoral fellow and teaches public
policy at the University of Toronto.
He holds a PhD from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public
Policy at Rutgers University.
His work centers on domestic and foreign policy issues with an emphasis on
the role of “scholar-statesmanship” and the link between social science and
public policy in the United States
and Canada.
He is currently at work on a book, based on his doctoral dissertation,
which examines the origins of policy think tanks in the United
States of the Progressive Era. Dr.
Mafinezam has worked as a program coordinator at the School
of International and Public
Affairs at Columbia University
in New York City, and the
Atlantic Council of the United States
in Washington, D.C.
He is the author of a monograph, “The Intellectual Bases of Khatami
Phenomenon in Iran,”
which was published by the Middle East Institute at Columbia
University in 1999. His work has appeared in the
newsletter of the Central Asia/Caucasus Institute at Johns
Hopkins University,
the newsletter of the School of International
and Public affairs at Columbia University,
and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has been interviewed and quoted by USA
Today, Voice of America, the BBC, and a number of Persian language media.
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Mojtaba
Mahdavi
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Mojtaba Mahdavi is a
Ph.D. Candidate in political science at the University
of Western Ontario where he also
teaches. He has published on the nature and variety of Islamic radicalism
as well as a critical examination of liberal democracy, liberalism, and
democratization in the context of the Muslim world. He is currently working
on the problems and prospects of democratization in post-revolutionary Iran.
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Hossein
Mesbahian
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Hossein Mesbahian is a
PhD student in Philosophy of Education at OISE/UT. He has published a few
articles on ideology, identity and subjectivity (as the philosophical
pillar of modernity). He is currently working on his dissertation entitled
“Toward an Alternative Vision of Modernity”. By referring to the origin of
modernity, its sources, and its antagonistic nature, the dissertation aims
to investigate the necessary conditions for the possibility of an
alternative vision of modernity.
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Abbas Milani
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Abbas Milani is a visiting fellow at the
Hoover Institution and a professor of history and political science at
Notre Dame de Namur University. His books include The Persian Sphinx:
Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution, Tales
of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir, and King of the Benighted.
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Guive Mirfendereski
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Guive Mirfendereski
(J.D., Boston College Law School; Ph.D., M.A.L.D., M.A., The Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy; B.A., Georgetown University) is an
international lawyer and a legal historian. As a professorial lecturer, he
speaks frequently on issues of international law and relations, most
recently in 2003 at the Asia Society in Houston, University of California
Law School in Los Angeles, and Boston College Law School. His adjunct
appointments included Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy and Brandeis University's Graduate School of International
Economics and Finance, Legal Studies Program, and the Economics Department.
He has served also as a legal consultant to The World Bank's private sector
development projects, particularly in the areas of privatization and
business law modernization. His many publications include A Diplomatic
History of the Caspian Sea (Palgrave, 2001), "The Ownership of the
Tonb Islands: A Legal Analysis," in Small Islands, Big Politics
(St. Martin's Press, 1996); and "The Status of Counterclaims under
International Law," in Denver Journal of International Law &
Policy (1986). His other writings include book reviews in Iranian
Studies, and numerous articles published in more than a dozen
publications in the United States, England, and Iran, some in Farsi. His
opinion pieces on a variety of subjects are featured on www.iranian.com and his views are sought
often by the Persian language programs at the Voice of America, BBC, and
other media outlets.
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Haideh
Moghissi
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Professor Haideh
Moghissi, teaches Sociology, at Atkinson Faculty, York University, and
is the Director of the international research projects on Diaspora, Islam,
and Gender, and Ford Foundation Palestinian Educational Training Program.
In Iran Dr. Moghissi was a Director in the National Archives, and during
and after the revolution was a founder and a member of the Executive of the
National Union of Women, and member of the Editorial Boards of Barabari,
and Women in Struggle. She has written extensively in English and Persian.
She is the Author of Populism and Feminism in Iran, MacMillan 1994, and
Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism, Zed press, Oxford University Press,1999,
2000. The latter title won the Choice Outstanding Academic Books Award in
Sociology in 2002. Her most recent journal articles have appeared in Journal
of Comparative Family Studies, Socialist Register, Monthly Review, and
Global Diologue.
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Saeed
Rahnema
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Dr. Saeed Rahnema is Professor, and Political Science
Coordinator at Atkinson Faculty, York University, Canada. He was a senior
executive of the Industrial Management Institute in Tehran, and a senior officer
of the UNDP. He was a Director of the Middle East Economic Association, and
the Editor of the MEEA Newsletter. Presently he is involved in several major
international research projects, and has written extensively in English and
Farsi. His more recent books include Organization Structure: A Systemic Approach,
McGraw-Hill, Toronto, London, 1992; Re-birth of Social Democracy in Iran,
(in Farsi) Baran Books Verlag, Stockholm, 1996; Iran. After the Revolution:
Crisis of an Islamic State, (co-authored andco-edited with S. Behdad)
London: I.B. Tauris, and New York: St Martin's Press, 1995, paperback 1996; His most recent
journal articles has appeared in the Socialist Register, 2001, Monthly
Review, March 2001, and Journal of Australian Political Economy, June 2002.
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Farhang  Rajaee
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Farhang Rajaee is Associate Professor
of Political Science specializing in political theory and international
relation with emphasis in non-Western traditions, particularly modern
Islamic political thought. He obtained a B.A. degree in political
science from the University of Tehran in 1975, an M.A. in public
administration from the University of Oklahoma in 1977, and a Ph.D. in
foreign affairs in 1983 from the University of Virginia. From 1986 to 1996
he was a Professor at the University of Tehran, the Iranian Academy of
Philosophy, and Beheshti (National) University. In 1990-91, he was a fellow
at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and in 1996 a research fellow at Zentrum
Moderner Orient, Berlin, where he worked on the topic of globalization and
the Islamic world. In his research he concentrates on the notion of
the human condition through an understanding of the political, in both
Western and non-Western traditions. Farhang Rajaee’s Web page is at http://www.carleton.ca/chum/Rajaee.htm
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