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۱۳۹۷ ﻦﻤﻬﺑ ۲۶ ﻪﻌﻤﺟ - ۱۵۳۹ هرﺎﻤﺷ / ۲۶ لﺎﺳ

DRS FEREIDOUN AND KATHARINE MIRHADY

E N D O W E D L E C T U R E I N I R A N I A N S T U D I E S

Soundtrack of the Revolution:

The Politics of Music in Iran

You are invited to attend the 17 annual Drs Nahid Siamdoust is the inaugural Ehsan
th
Yarshater Fellow at Yale University’s Program in
Fereidoun and Katharine Mirhady Endowed Iranian Studies at the MacMillan Center for
International and Area Studies. She is a cultural
Lecture in Iranian Studies. historian whose work concentrates primarily on
the intersection between politics and various
modes of cultural production and media forms
S peaker: Nahid Siamdoust in Iran and the wider Middle East, with a critical
focus on questions of cultural mediation,
political power and social mobilization. Her
Yale University book, Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran (Stanford
Vol. 26 / No. 1539 - Friday, Feb 15, 2019 Thursday, 28 February 2019, 7 PM Science and Art History, and a Master of International A•airs from
University Press, 2017) was based on her award-winning doctoral
dissertation at Oxford University. Siamdoust holds a B.A. in Political
Barnard College and Columbia University, respectively. Prior to her
doctorate, she worked as a full-time Iran and Middle East based journal-
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ist for—TIME Magazine,—Der Spiegel and—Al Jazeera English TV.
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Campus
"Music is the language of liberation. Nahid Siamdoust, who knows all
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the players and has taken personal risks to tell this story, has written a
book that, like Iran itself, is œlled with hope and sadness and the univer-
This lecture is free and open to the public. lovely tribute to the courage and creativity of Iran's musicians. This is a
sal human desire for freedom."
—Joe Klein, Time Magazine
As seating is limited, reservations are recommended.
"Nahid Siamdoust's Soundtrack of the Revolution is a ground-breaking
Please register online at study of a potent cultural register in post-revolutionary Iran. For both
the casual reader and the aœcionado, Siamdoust's pioneering insights
www.sfu.ca/history/events.html are revelatory."
—Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

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