Golbarg Bashi

Dr Golbarg Bashi, B.A. (Man), M.Sc. (Bristol), Ph.D. (Columbia)

Golbarg Bashi holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from Columbia University in the city of New York. She teaches Iranian and Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University. Her doctoral research focused on a feminist critique of the human rights discourse in Iran.

Her current research interests include:
Political art and music in Iran, women and gender in fundamentalist religious communities in North America and women's rights movements in Iran and in a global comparative context.

Born in Iran, raised in Sweden, and educated in Britain and the United States, she lives in New York City with her family.

"The People Reloaded"

Dr Bashi has contributed a chapter to The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future (Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, Eds.) (Melville House, 2011).

Golbarg Bashi - Green Movement and Human Rights in Iran

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

From One Third World Woman to Another: A Conversation with Gayatri Spivak [Persian translation]

Selected Publications

A HISTORIC LANDMARK: Women's Rights Gathering in Tehran on June 12th 2006

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

Other

Tehran Bureau: Spotlight: Golbarg Bashi + Iranian Women

"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