Everyone is invited to attend a free, public lecture on Tuesday, March 8, 2011.
Dr. David Menashri, Tel Aviv University/Oxford University will deliver an address entitled: “Iran’s Domestic Challenges and Regional Ramifications.”
WHEN: Tuesday, March 8, 2011
7:30 TO 9:00 pm
WHERE: Convocation Hall, 2ND FLOOR Wesley Hall,
University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave
BACKGROUND:
David Menashri is the Founding-Director of the Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University, and one of the Israel’s leading scholars on Iran. He is incumbent of the Parviz and Pouran Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian Studies, Senior Research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History.
Prof. Menashri’s main field of academic research is history and politics of modern Iran, Central Asia, and the Persian Gulf. He is currently visiting professor at Oxford University, and has been a visiting Fulbright scholar at Princeton and Cornell University and, among others, a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, Melbourne University, the University of Munich and Waseda (Tokyo) and Monash University (Melbourne). In the late 1970s he spent two years conducting research and field studies in Iranian universities on the eve of the Islamic Revolution. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards in Israel and abroad, including grants from Ford Foundation, Fulbright Foundation and Ben Gurion Foundation.
MEDIA CONTACT
Diane Poulin, Communications Officer, The University of Winnipeg
P: 204.988.7135, E: d.poulin@uwinnipeg.ca
