ISGAP invites all to attend a Special Event on Iran featuring
Professor David Menashri
“Iranian President Rouhani’s PR Offensive: Will Hope Stop the Centrifuges?”
Thursday, October 3
4:00 – 6:00 PM
165 East 56th St., 8th Floor
(between Lexington and 3rd Avenue)
New York, NY 10022
Introductory remarks by Lawrence B. Benenson, Chair of ISGAP
and Dr. Charles Asher Small, Director of ISGAP
David Menashri, is the President of the College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan. He is also the Founding-Director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University, Incumbent of the Parviz and Pouran Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian Studies, Senior Research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History.
Prof. Menashri’s main field of academic research is history and politics of modern Iran, Central Asia, the Persian Gulf and history of education in the Muslim world. He has been a visiting Fulbright scholar at Princeton and Cornell University and, among others, a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, Melbourne University, the University of Munich and Waseda (Tokyo) and Monash University (Melbourne). In the late 1970s he spent two years conducting research and field studies in Iranian universities on the eve of the Islamic Revolution. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards in Israel and abroad, including grants from Ford Foundation, Fulbright Foundation and Ben Gurion Foundation.
The event is open to the public and all are encouraged to attend. Light refreshments will be served.
Attendees must RSVP by contacting the ISGAP Coordinator, Jenny Pigott.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (212) 230-1840.
ISGAP looks forward to your attendance at this special event.