Saghar Sadeghian on Non-Muslims and the Iranian Parliament, 1906-1911

PARTICIPANTS

	Saghar Sadeghian is the Henry Hart Rice Family Foundation Fellow and Lecturer at the MacMillan Center. Her research focuses on the ideas of nationality, constitution, and modern institutions in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is specifically interested in minority groups in the Middle East and the question of gender, race, religion and ethnicity.
	Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University’s Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.

CREDITS

Episode No. 236
Release Date: 7 April 2016
Recording Location: Yale University
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Sound excerpts: Istanbul’dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir – Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Baglamamin Dugumu – Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Seyfettin Sucu – Eğin Türküsü (digitized by Chris Gratien); Harmandali – Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi
Image via Iran Review
Bibliography courtesy of Saghar Sadeghian

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