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Morningside Heights
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
The Middle East Institute (MEI) and SIPA present the fourth lecture in the spring 2008 series—Three decades of the Islamic Republic of Iran: “Thirty Years of Islamic Revolution.”
Asef Bayat, Ph.D, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM)
Co-sponsored with:
CU Office of the President
School of International and Public Affairs
Iranians at SIPA
Asef Bayat (Ph.D. University of Kent, 1984) taught sociology and Middle East studies at the American University in Cairo. He has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University, New York, and the University of Oxford. His academic interests ranges from Political Sociology, Social Movements, to Urban Space and Politics, International Development, Contemporary Middle East, and Islam and the Modern World. He has conducted ethnographic research in the areas of popular mobilization in the Iranian Revolution; labor movements; politics of the urban poor; development NGOs; everyday cosmopolitanism; comparative Islamism; and Muslim youth cultural politics, primarily in Iran and Egypt. He is the author of Workers and Revolution in Iran (London, Zed Books, 1987), Work, Politics and Power (New York, Monthly Review Press, 1991), Street Politics (New York, Columbia University Press, 1997). His most recent book is Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (Stanford, 2007).
His two forthcoming books include The Art of Presence: Changing the Contemporary Middle East (Amsterdam Uni. Press, 2009), and The Making of Muslim Youths (Oxford University Press, 2009).
