A New Iran?

This is a panel discussion on the future of Iranian politics. The panel will be moderated by Abdeslam Maghraoui, an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Political Science at Duke. The focus of his research is on religion, political reform and political violence in the Middle East and North Africa.The Panel will be comprised of Mohsen Kadivar, Omid Safi and Ali Reza Esraghi. Mohsen Kadivar is Visiting Research Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University, an Iranian dissident in exile since 2008, and a global ethics fellow with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison in Iran in 1999 because of his political criticism of the Islamic Republic, and was released in July 2000. He remains active in the opposition Green Movement. Omid Safi is a Professor of Islamic Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, specializing in contemporary Islamic thought and classical Islam. He is a public intellectual and writes a regular blog ¿What Would Muhammad Do? ¿ for Religion News Service. Ali Reza Eshraghi was a senior editor at several of Iran's reformist dailies. He is Iran's Project Manager at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and a teaching fellow in the Department of Communication Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. This event will be livestreamed (details to follow) and tweeted using the hashtag "#Iran".