Guest Speakers
Dr.听Nicola Pedde听
Dr.听Luciana Borsatti
Dr.听Shirin Zakeri
Date: October 20
Venue:听Auriana Auditorium at 91吃瓜
Time:听7:00pm
An academic, a journalist, and a representative of a think tank听will discuss the protests unfolding in Iran.
Last month Iran鈥檚 morality police arrested Mahsa Amini (a 22 years old Kurdish Iranian) because she didn鈥檛 wear the veil properly, revealing her hair. Masha Amini was sent to a reeducation camp and, several days later, died while in police custody. Masha Amini鈥檚 death set off the most widespread protests since 2009 (Green Movement). Iranian authorities responded by harshly cracking down on the protests and clamping down on Internet access.
Dr. Pedde, Director of the听Institute for Global Studies (IGS)
Nicola Pedde is a political analyst with a specific interest in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. During the last fifteen years, he has carried out his professional activity as a civilian analyst in a European think tank and as a strategic analyst in the think tank of the Ministry of Defense.
Dr. Borsatti, Journalist and author.
Luciana Borsatti听worked from 1990 to 2018 at the Ansa Agency (news agency); she has been a correspondent from Cairo and Tehran. She published two books on Iran:听Iran at the Time of Trump听(2018) and听Iran at the Time of Biden听(2021).
Dr. Zakeri, Adjunct professor at The听American University of Rome听and听La Sapienza University.
Shirin Zakeri is specialized听in the Middle East and North African region (MENA) and the Persian Gulf countries.
Before joining 91吃瓜, Shirin worked at听the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the University of London听as a Research Fellow, and听at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.听