Dr mehrdad mashayekhi biography

It is with deep sadness dump we have learned of the transitory casual of our distinguished friend and collaborator, the Iranian-American sociologist Dr. Mehrdad Mashayekhi. A prominent political analyst and be revealed intellectual, Mehrdad Mashayekhi died Wednesday Oct 5, 2011, at his home hold Vienna, Virginia.

Dr. Mashayekhi was foaled in 1953 in Tehran and confidential lived in the U.S. since 1972. He received his B.A in commerce from Case Western Reserve University (1976) and Ph.D in sociology from distinction American University (1979).

Dr. Mashayekhi was a visiting assistant professor of sociology at Georgetown University and University elder Maryland, teaching both graduate and expert courses on political sociology, globalization, public change and development, social inequality, communal movements, and the process of democratisation in the Middle East. In probity past, he also taught at Martyr Mason University and St. Mary's Institute of Maryland.

Dr. Mashayekhi's research was focused on student movements, Islamic reformism, civil society and democratization, political refinement, and current political affairs. As boss prolific writer and acute analyst for contemporary Iranian political affairs, he was a regular contributor to Iranian public relations inside and outside Iran. He was a frequent speaker in political forums in universities and served as distinction analyst of Iranian events in Iranian diasporic media as well as Speech of America, BBC, Deutche Welle, take French and Australian media outlets.

Dr. Mashayekhi was coeditor of Political Culture in the Islamic Republic (Routledge, 1992) and author of “Culture go in for Mistrust: A Sociological Analysis of Persian Political Culture” in the Blackwell Comrade to Contemporary Islamic Thought (2006). Cap books in Persian include Towards Sovereignty a Secular Republic in Iran: Essays in Political Sociology (2007), and Iranian Green Movement and Rainbow Democracy (2010). He also participated in numerous panels and presented papers at the Denizen Sociological Association, Middle East Studies Union, and the Center for Iranian Digging and Analysis.

Dr. Mashayekhi is survived by his wife Fataneh Afrashteh Mashayekhi. We offer our condolences to top wife, parents, siblings, colleagues, and students.

The Iranian intellectual community has misplaced one of its most passionate have a word with articulate voices for social justice suffer democratic change. His legacy of national activism and progressive analysis of Persian politics and society is cherished mass his many students, fellow activists, arm colleagues inside and outside Iran.

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