symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Ramin Jahanbegloo, Professor and Vice-Dean, School of Law, and Executive Director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, Jindal Global University, Sonipat

• FROM HOPE TO CHAOS AND BACK?
  Roberto Toscano, former Italian Ambassador to Iran (2003-08) and India (2008-10); now columnist, 'La Repubblica', Madrid

• THE OLD IS DYING
  Mojtaba Mahdavi, ECMC Chair in Islamic Studies and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton

• STUNTED CITIZENSHIP, ERRATIC STATEHOOD
  Rami G. Khouri, Senior Public Policy Fellow, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut; syndicated columnist; and non-resident Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

• TURKEY: A RELUCTANCE TO COMPROMISE
  Meysam Badamchi, Research Fellow, Centre for Modern Turkish Studies, Istanbul Sehir University

• ACTIVISM AMIDST DISAPPOINTMENT
  Nermin Allam, post-doctoral fellow, Department of Political Science, Princeton University

• SITES OF COLLECTIVE ACTION
  Peyman Vahabzadeh, Director, Cultural, Social and Political Thought (CSPT) Programme and Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria

• IRAN: SOME UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
  Farzin Vahdat, Sociologist, working on Islam and modernity, Waltham, MA

• THE AUTHORITARIAN ROOTS OF MUSLIM SECTARIANISM
  Nader Hashemi, Director, Centre for Middle East Studies, University of Denver

• INTERVIEW
  with Nilüfer Göle, Directrice d'etudes at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (CESPRA-EHESS), Paris; by Ramin Jahanbegloo

• A DIPLOMACY OF HOPE
  Ramin Jahanbegloo, Professor and Vice-Dean, School of Law, and Executive Director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, Jindal Global University, Sonipat; and Mehrdad Loghmani, Canadian-Iranian researcher and activist

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Srinath Raghavan, Devika Bordia, Jyotsna Singh and Arun Prakash

• COMMENT
  At the Heart of the Storm by Sasheej Hegde, Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad

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