Seminar on Green Movement and National Minorities in Iran
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[ February 26, 2010; 18:00 to 20:00. ] Seminar: Green Movement and national minorities in Iran
Speaker: Dr Said Shams Date and Time: 26th February 2010, @6:00 Venue: B111,SOAS 10 Thornhaugh Street WC1H 0XG, London Organized by Kurdish Studies and Students Organisation (KSSO) and Kurdish Society at SOAS(KSSOAS)Seminar Abstract
The recent resistance against the Islamic regime and cry for freedom in Iran, labelled as ‘the Green Movement’, has taken the focus of attentions. It all started when the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009, was disputed by the two defeated candidates, Mir Hussein Mousavi and the former speaker of parliament and senior cleric, Mehdi Karroubi. In the past seven months despite increased security, official warnings and often brutal crackdowns on opposition figures, journalists and ordinary demonstrators, mass protests have increasingly taken place. In fact, the continued mass protests across the country, despite harsh security measures, turned the Green Movement into a nationwide uprising against the regime.
In this speech, Said examines the weight of the national minority communities in the politics of the Green Movement. He argues that the right national minorities in Iran has received little attention in the recent oppositional movement. Read More…
