Golbarg Bashi

Golbarg Bashi teaches Iranian Studies at Rutgers University. She was born in Iran, raised in Sweden, and educated in Britain. She holds a First Class B.A. (Honors) in Middle Eastern Studies from Manchester University, a M.Sc. in Women's Studies from Bristol University and has recently completed her doctoral thesis on a feminist critique of the human rights discourse in Iran. Her research interests include the theories and practices of human rights in Iran, modern Iranian social and intellectual history, and women's rights movements in Iran and in a comparative context. She lives in New York City with her husband Hamid Dabashi and their daughter Chelgis and their son Golchin.

On the Iranian June 2009 Election Crisis

Feminist waves in the Iranian Green Tsunami?

Iranian Feminism after June 2009: A Conversation with Zillah Eisenstein

Picturing Ourselves: 1953, 1979 and 2009: A Conversation with Negar Mottahedeh

Selected Publications

From One Third World Woman to Another

Citizenship Rights in Iran: One Step Forward, Many More to Take [German Translation] [Arabic translation] [Persian translation]

The Proper Etiquette of Meeting Shahrnush Parsipur in the United States

Eyewitness History: Ayatollah Montazeri [Persian translation]

A Genre in the Service of Empire

"As we collect ourselves together and learn humility from the courage of our brothers and sisters facing fire in Iran, as we wait for our words to come back to us and teach us how to speak, here is a cry of freedom that speaks for all of us."

—Hamid Dabashi

By Shahin Najafi, contemporary Iranian lyricist:

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Golbarg Bashi

On the Iranian June 2009 Election Crisis

Selected Publications