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LECTURE: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION

Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New York, NY, United States

Throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the Iranian student opposition abroad, developed contending narratives of human rights in Iran. While Iranian students worked with Western human rights organizations to highlight the use of torture against political prisoners in Iran, the Pahlavi state responded by embracing a Third World narrative of […]

Book Talk: “The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem” Jane Hathaway

Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New York, NY, United States

Abstract:  Eunuchs were a common feature of pre- and early modern societies that are now poorly understood. Here, Jane Hathaway offers an in-depth study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the harem of the Ottoman Empire. A wide range of primary sources are used to analyze the Chief Eunuch’s origins in East […]

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