Dr Fereydoun Ala: Prince Abbas Mirza (1789-1833)
Prince Abbas Mirza, son of Fath Ali Shah, was Crown Prince and, as was the tradition, was Governor of Tabriz. He modernised the army and many institutions and was the […]
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Prof. Nacim Pak-Shiraz: Women in Iranian cinema
Army & Navy Club 36-39 Pall Mall, London, United Kingdom
Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz is Personal Chair of Cinema and Iran, and Head of Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. After a B.A. in Tehran, […]
Qajar Painting, Photography, Textiles, Armour
This event will be co-hosted by the Gingko Library to celebrate the publication of Revealing the Unseen: New Perspectives on Qajar Art. The articles in the first section of the […]
David Blow: Mirrors for Princes – Machiavellian advice to young rulers
Army & Navy Club 36-39 Pall Mall, London, United Kingdom
‘Mirrors for Princes’ are mediaeval prose works of advice for rulers or prospective rulers on how they should exercise kingship. They were usually written by a ruler for the benefit […]
Roberta Marin: Safavid carpets in Milan collections CANCELLED
Army & Navy Club 36-39 Pall Mall, London, United Kingdom
Milan has a fabulous collection of Safavid carpets. Robert Marin, currently in England, hails from the Università Ca' Foscari of Venice. Roberta is well known to the Iran Society and […]
Robert Steele: Iran’s involvement in Africa in the late 1960s and early 1970s
This lecture will examine Iran’s political interactions with Sub-Saharan Africa under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Much of the scholarship on Pahlavi Iran’s global interactions has focused on its relations with the […]
Dr Nader Sayadi: Who Built the City? Local Politics and Architectural Patronage in Early Modern Kashan
Sevruguin, Antoin: Kashan bazaar Shahs and their courts, royal art and architectural patronage, capital cities, and dynastic histories still dominate narratives of Iran’s past. […]
Daniel Amir: The Jews of Iran 1900-1925
Army & Navy Club 36-39 Pall Mall, London, United Kingdom
The talk will look at the rise of Jews in the Iranian public sphere between 1900 and 1925, starting with a background of the conditions faced by Iranian Jews in […]
Barbara Brend: Treasures of Herat – Two manuscripts of the Khamseh of Nizami in the British Library
Army & Navy Club 36-39 Pall Mall, London, United Kingdom
This event will be to celebrate the publication of this lavishly illustrated book by Barbara Brend, independent scholar of Persian art. The Khamseh is a set of five poems by […]
Prof. Ali Ansari: Anglo-Iranian nuclear cooperation in the 1970s- POSTPONED to 4th JULY
Army & Navy Club 36-39 Pall Mall, London, United Kingdom
Ali Ansari is the Professor in Modern History with reference to the Middle East at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he is also the founding director of […]