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25th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND SEMINAR: ABOUT THE SPEAKERS | |
| Ms. Mehrangir Kar Ms. Kar is a human rights lawyer, who has been living in the United States since 2001. Her husband, journalist, Siamak Pourzand is imprisoned in Iran. She was awarded the Ludovic Trarieux Prize in 2002 for her life's work and in 2004 was honored by Human Right's First. She served as a fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the American University in Washington D.C., the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and Columbia University. Most recently, she was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University and is currently based at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her publications include Children of Addiction: Social and Legal Position of the Children of Addicted Parents; Quest for Identity: The Image of Iranian Women in Prehistory and History Vol. I and II; and Legal Structure of the Family System in Iran. Mr. Mansour Farhang Mr. Farhang served as revolutionary Iran's first ambassador to the United Nations; he resigned his post when the Khomeini regime refused to accept the U.N. Commission of Inquiry's recommendation to release the American Hostages in Iran. He served in the early Iran-Iraq war as an envoy in negotiations with international peace missions. Currently he is on the advisory board of Middle East Watch, a branch of Human Rights Watch. He is a published author whose works include: U.S. Imperialism: From the Spanish-American War to the Iranian Revolution. He has taught at the Claremont Graduate School at the California University at Sacramento, Princeton University, and University of Arizona. He has been teaching at Bennington College in Vermont since 1983. Dr. Maboud Ansari Dr. Ansari received his B.A. from Teachers College in Tehran, Iran, his M.A. from Tehran University and his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research. He teaches History of Social Theory, Modern Sociological Theory, Muslims and Islamic Institutions at both the undergraduate and graduate level at William Patterson University. His books include Modern Sociological Theories, The Making of the Iranian Community in America and Iranian Immigrants to the United States. His current research interest focuses on Muslims in New York and New Jersey and is currently working on a book on that subject. Dr. Jamsheed Akrami Dr. Akrami teaches film and television at William Patterson University and is a visiting professor of film at Columbia University. He has worked as a consultant with several American film distribution companies since 1995. He has been interviewed on national media outlets such as NPR, CNN, IFC, Sundance Channel, and The New York Times. He is a former editor of the Iranian Film Magazines "Film and Arts" and "Film Quarterly". He has published extensively on Iranian Cinema. He helped promote "Children of Heaven" which was nominated in the best foreign-language film category of the Academy Awards. He has produced two feature-length documentaries on Iranian cinema before and after the revolution. He curated an Iranian Film Series at the Brooklyn Museum of Art called "Master Filmmakers of Iran. | |
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