"Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings" A Book talk by Dr. Pouya Alimagham (MIT)

Please join us on Friday, November 20, 2020 at 2:00 pm PST for a book talk titled "Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings" by Dr. Pouya Alimagham (MIT).

Register for this Webinar, here: (https://bit.ly/GreenUprisings)

Pouya Alimagham is a historian of the modern Middle East. He specializes on Iran, Iraq, and the Levant, focusing on such themes as revolutionary and guerrilla movements, imperialism, representation and Orientalism, “Political Islam” and post-Islamism, and the intersections therein.

Most observers of Iran viewed the Green Uprisings of 2009 as a 'failed revolution', with many Iranians and those in neighbouring Arab countries agreeing. In Contesting the Iranian Revolution, however, Pouya Alimagham re-examines this evaluation, deconstructing the conventional win-lose binary interpretations in a way which underscores the subtle but important victories on the ground, and reveals how Iran's modern history imbues those triumphs with consequential meaning. Focusing on the men and women who made this dynamic history, and who exist at the centre of these contentious politics, this 'history from below' brings to the fore the post-Islamist discursive assault on the government's symbols of legitimation. From powerful symbols rooted in Shi'ite Islam, Palestinian liberation, and the Iranian Revolution, Alimagham harnesses the wider history of Iran and the Middle East to highlight how activists contested the Islamic Republic's legitimacy to its very core.

This event is presented by UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture.





                                     Dr. Pouya Alimagham (MIT)