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| LIF | U.Va. Expert on Women and Politics in Iran
Farzaneh Milani, a professor of Persian literature and women's studies at the University of Virginia, is author of "Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers," and co-translator of the poetry volume, "A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems," by Simin Behbahani, Iran's most celebrated living poet. Milani and collaborator Kaveh Safa's translation of Behbahani's poems won the 2008 Lois Roth Prize for Literary Translation from Persian.
Expert available | 14-Aug-2009
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| LIF | Expert Available to Discuss Ahmadinejad's Second Inauguration, Other Events in Iran
Next week, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to be inaugurated for a second term in office as Iran's president. Yet he faces a hornets' nest. Iran's society is in the worst political turmoil since 1979 and its economy is sliding downward rapidly too. Jamsheed Choksy, Indiana University professor of Central Eurasian Studies, history, ancient studies and India studies and an adjunct professor in religious studies, is available to discuss this and other developments.
Expert available | 31-Jul-2009
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| LIF | Experts Available to Discuss the Crisis in Iran
University of Texas at Austin faculty are available to provide expert perspectives on issues related to the political unrest over Iranian election results, including President Barack Obama’s stance on Iran policy, the violent crackdown on protestors in Tehran and the revolutionary impact of social media.
Expert available | 09-Jul-2009
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| LIF | Expert Says Movement for Change in Iran Is Most Powerful in 30 Years
Basic, irreversible changes are occurring in Iran -- begun and directed by the Iranian people themselves -- says Indiana University Professor Jamsheed Choksy, a specialist on Iranian history and religions.
Expert available | 07-Jul-2009
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| LIF | Iranian Administration Losing Legitimacy, Says Expert
As the Iranian government continues to crack down on citizens protesting against the recent disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an expert on Iran at Washington University in St. Louis says the Iranian administration wants the legitimacy of having won an election without actually having allowed a true election to take place.
Expert available | 23-Jun-2009
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| LIF | Iranian-American Scholar Posts Daily Updates on Turmoil in Iran
An Iranian-American scholar at Washington University in St. Louis has been posting daily updates from friends and academic contacts within Iran on election-related turmoil as part of her long-running electronic newsletter on cultural, political and social issues in Iran. Her Web site, Windows on Iran, posts cell phone videos and firsthand anecdotes.
Expert available | 23-Jun-2009
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| LIF | Professor Reports on Iranian Election Turmoil
A University of California, San Diego professor has emerged as a leading scholarly authority on voter sentiment and new media in Iran in the wake of the June 12 election in which Iran's official news agency announced that incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won about two-thirds of the votes cast. | 22-Jun-2009
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| LIF | Expert on Iran Receiving Reports from within the Country, Available for Interviews
As hundreds of thousands of demonstrators continue to take to the streets of Tehran, an Indiana University professor who has traveled throughout Iran continues to get reports from colleagues within the country, who indicate that Arabic-speaking militias are arriving in the country.
Expert available | 17-Jun-2009
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| LIF | Does Israel Have Partners in a Partition Agreement?
Dr. Dan Schueftan, Director of the University of Haifa’s National Security Studies Center discusses the challenges that Israel’s national security is now facing following the Arab and Palestinian responses to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech. | 17-Jun-2009
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| LIF | Computer Forensics Finds Twitter Plays Key Role in Cyber Attacks on Iranian Government
Users of the popular networking site Twitter could be the unwitting participants in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) computer attacks that are rendering Iranian government Web sites inaccessible to users, said Gary Warner, Director of Research in Computer Forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Warner said U.S. law punishes participants in DDOS attacks with up to one year in prison and fines that can range into the thousands of dollars. | 16-Jun-2009
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