Sunday 9:00-10:30

Secularism, Nationalism, in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Chair: Hamid Zangeneh, Widener University

"Islam, Naitonalism, and Secularism in the Iranian Post-Revolutionary Politic"

Mehdi Noorbaksh, Center for International Studies. University of St. Thomas, Houston, 

"Basis of Post-Revolutionary Iranian Political-Legal System"

Hassan Rezai, Islamic-Iranian Criminal law fellow of the W. Kluger center, The Library of Congress

"Why Western Political Secularism Can Not Be Applied to Iran"

Mohammad Borghei , Strayer University

Discussants:  

Akbar Mahdi, Ohio Wesleyan University

Misagh Parsa, Dartmouth College