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The Tehran Test: How human rights cases in Iran are putting Canada’s foreign policy approach to the test
Event Date: November 22, 2016 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: Faculty of Social Sciences 4004, 120 University Private , Ottawa
Presented by CIPS, OpenCanada.org and the Baha’i Community of Canada
Free. In English. Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis.
Michael Petrou is a two-time National Magazine Award-winning journalist and author who has reported from across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. His latest book, Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World, won the Ottawa Book Award for non-fiction. Petrou has a DPhil in Modern History from the University of Oxford. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies.
Thomas Juneau teaches at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He is the author of Squandered Opportunity: Neoclassical realism and Iranian foreign policy (Stanford University Press, 2015), co-editor of Iranian Foreign Policy since 2001: Alone in the world (Routledge, 2013), and co-editor of Asie centrale et Caucase : Une sécurité mondialisée (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2004). He has also worked for the Department of National Defence as a strategic analyst on the Middle East.
Maryam Nayeb Yazdi is an activist, writer, and consultant/strategist working in the field of human rights and social change. She is the founder of Persian2English.com, an acclaimed translation blog that the Toronto Star has described as a “world-ranking resource for pundits, politicians, universities, media, human rights groups and the United Nations.” She has founded numerous campaigns calling for the release of political prisoners in Iran, including a global campaign for Canadian Permanent Resident Saeed Malekpour. In 2013, she delivered a speech at the Oslo Freedom Forum about the death penalty in Iran, the government’s “main weapon of choice … against Iranians.”
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