Sadegh Zibakalam
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Zibakalam speaking at University of Tehran - 2015
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| Born | Sadegh Zibakalam Mofrad 12 June 1948 Tehran, Iran |
| Residence | Sa'adat Abad, Tehran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Fields | Political Science |
| Institutions |
University of Tehran Islamic Azad University |
| Alma mater | University of Bradford |
| Thesis | The Historical Genesis of the Islamic Revolution (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas Gerard Gallagher |
| Notable students |
Saeed Hajjarian Fatemeh Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| Influences | Ghazali |
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Website www |
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Sadegh Zibakalam (Persian: صادق زیباکلام, lit. 'honest eloquent-speaker'; born 12 June 1948) is an Iranian academic, author and pundit described as reformist and neo-liberal.
A graduate of the University of Bradford, he is a professor at University of Tehran and appears frequently on international news outlets including the BBC News and Al Jazeera.
His books "How Did We Become What We Are?" and "An Introduction to Islamic Revolution" are among bestsellers and prominent books on Iranian contemporary politics.
Zibakalam has become a familiar face in Iran for his passionate and daring debates with hardliners in which he publicly challenges the state line on many sensitive topics.
While teaching at Islamic Azad University of Zanjan, Zibakalam registered as a candidate for the Iranian legislative election, 2000 from Zanjan, but he was disqualified by the Guardian council.
In January 2014, he wrote an open letter to Hassan Rouhani and criticized him for not focusing on his campaign promises including freeing political prisoners and ending house arrest of the 2009 presidential candidates (Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Zahra Rahnavard, and Mehdi Karroubi). This was in reaction to a recent Rouhani's speech in praise of pro-government protests against Green Movement protests on Ashura of 2009.
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