Shaul
Bakhash, professor of history at George Mason University and an authority
on modern Iran, will deliver a talk titled “Iran: John Locke and
Liberalism in an Islamic Republic” on Wednesday, May 24, at 8 p.m. in
Memorial Chapel.
The lecture, part of the Frederic E. Miller Lecture
Series in Honor of Anwar Sadat, is free and open to the public.
Bakhash specializes in Iran, modern Middle East and
modern Islamic political thought.
He is author of Iran: Monarchy, Bureaucracy and
Reform Under the Oajars, 1858-1896, The Politics of Oil and Revolution in
Iran and Reign of the Ayotollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution.
He frequently writes for The New York Review of
Books. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Washington
Post, and the New Republic.
He worked for many years as a journalist in Iran,
writing for Tehran-based Kayhan Newspapers as well as the London Times,
Financial Times and The Economist.
He taught at Princeton University, and has been a
Guggenheim Fellow.
He has been awarded fellowships at the Institute of
Advanced Study at Princeton, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, and the National Humanities Center.
His current research deals with Islam and political
sensibility.