Monday, March 9, 2020

Sources to Find Multiple Perspectives within the 1979 Revolution


Choices Brown University on the Iranian Revolution (notice the video tutorials on various subtopics)

Iran Oral History Project (Harvard University, unless you read Farsi, filter for 64 English translations) 

Iran 1979: Legacy (al Jazeera) 

BBC Collects Recollections on 30th Anniversary  and University of Manchester Digitization Project

Oxford Bibliography (which contains many of the sources I located independently below)

What to Read to Understand the Revolution (Brookings Institute)

Tehran Bureau PBS Frontline

Documenting Iran-U.S. Relations, 1978-2015 (National Security Archive, George Washington University), includes Iran Revolution Revisited and 1979 Revolution documents 

What to Read in Order to Understand the Iranian Revolution (Brookings Institute)

Crash Course: Iran's Revolution

Ideology and Iran's Revolution: How 1979 Changed the World 

Anti-Capitalism/Anti-Imperialism (Marxist and Islamic (Shariati)) 

Documents of the Iranian Revolutionary Movement 

The Stolen Revolution: Iranian Women of 1979 (CBC Radio, March 2019) 
  • Minoo Jalali is a women's rights activist, retired lawyer and chair of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in London, UK. She fled Iran in 1983.
  • Haideh Daragahi was a professor of English Literature at Tehran University when Khomeini took power. She has lived in Sweden since 1984 and worked as an academic, women's rights activist and journalist. 
  • Shahin Navai is an activist in the women's movement and a researcher in the field of Entomology. She fled Iran in 1984 and has since lived in Berlin, Germany. 

The Role of the 1953 Coup 



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