symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Ramin Jahanbegloo, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto

• REVISITING THE GREEN MOVEMENT
  Farhad Khosrokhavar, Professor, Ècole des Hautes Ètudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

• CIVIL SOCIETY AND REPRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT
  Peyman Vahabzadeh, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, British Columbia

• A CONFIDENT GENERATION
  Omid Memarian, journalist; awarded the Human Rights Defender Award by Human Rights Watch, San Francisco

• WOMEN: A FORCE FOR CHANGE
  Nazila Fathi, journalist with 'The New York Times'; currently, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge

• STRUGGLES OVER FAMILY LAW 
  Lily Pourzand, legal expert, human rights and women's rights activist, Toronto

• LABOUR'S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENT UNIONS 
  Sohrab Behdad, Professor and John E. Harris Chair in Economics, Denison University, Granville, Ohio and Farhad Nomani, Professor of Economics and Chair, Department of Economics, American University, Paris

• LEFT AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION
  Saeed Rahnema, Professor and Coordinator, Political Science Programme, Atkinson Faculty, York University; former Director, School of Public Policy and Administration, Toronto

• RELIGIOUS LIFE IN A SECULAR STATE
  Yussefi Eshkevari, Iranian reformist cleric, lives in Italy

• QOM: CHANGE FROM WITHIN
  Ali Khan, PhD. student, University of Cambridge

• STRATEGIES OF HOPE
  Nader Hashemi, teaches Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by R.N. Khatami and Chakraverti Mahajan

• ESSAY
  A 'Grand Celebration' of Feminist Discourse by Archana Varma, Hindi poet, fiction writer and literary critic; teaches Hindi at Miranda House, Delhi

• COMMENT
  The Emperor's New Clothes by Shashank Kela, writer, Chennai

• IN MEMORIAM
  Satish Saberwal 1933-2010 and Laxmi Chand Jain 1925-2010

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