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-15 posts tagged "Iran"
Angela Mathew | Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi’s latest film “No Bears” is an exploration of life under Iran’s authoritarian government. Like a lot of Panahi’s recent work, it has been shaped by his experiences with the government that has censored his art and placed him under house arrest. Since July 2022, he has been in Tehran’s notorious Evin
Grace Sullivan | Monday, October 3, 2022
On Sept. 16, protests in Iran broke out after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. Amini was arrested and brutally beaten on the head by the so-called “morality police” — authorities that enforce religious based laws — for wearing her hijab too loosely: an illegal offense in Iran. Amini later died after being in police
Angela Mathew | Monday, September 5, 2022
The star of Panah Panahi’s “Hit the Road” is the family’s young son, played by Rayan Sarlak. His annoying antics and entertaining quips keep this slow, meditative story about a family’s separation moving forward. Although a lot of the details of the situation in this Iranian film are kept intentionally vague, it follows a family:
Kelli Smith | Friday, January 31, 2020
When Hamid Mohabbat’s plane touched down in Chicago on Jan. 10, he could hardly contain his excitement. It was his first time in America and he was one step closer to Notre Dame, where’d he accepted a fully-funded offer to study civil engineering through a combined master’s and Ph.D. program. A 22-year-old from Iran, Mohabbat
Letter to the Editor | Friday, January 31, 2020
This letter to the editor was written on Tuesday in response to a New York Times article published on Saturday titled, “‘Demeaned and Humiliated’: What Happened to These Iranians at U.S. Airports.” This past weekend as I was reading the news, I was shocked to see our University’s name in an article concerning an issue nobody
Mary Szromba | Wednesday, January 15, 2020
One of President Trump’s major campaign promises was an end to prolonged conflicts in the Middle East. “I’m the guy that didn’t want to go to war,” he said in 2016, and his anti-deployment stance likely won him the votes of those living in counties with high military casualty rates. For a while the president
Tom Naatz | Friday, October 11, 2019
Former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke Thursday evening about global affairs and America’s role in the world at a lecture co-hosted by the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy and the Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC). Professor Michael Desch, director of NDISC, moderated the discussion. Rice spoke
Ciara Hopkinson | Tuesday, February 14, 2017
In an attempt to showcase a different side of Iran, the Persian Association of Notre Dame (PAND) is hosting a photo exhibit, titled “Iran Beyond Politics,” on Friday at McKenna Hall. Fatemeh Elahi, an organizer of the event and a member of PAND, said the exhibit “emphasizes the diversity of the Iranian people — especially
Emily McConville | Wednesday, February 1, 2017
In the five days since President Donald Trump signed an executive order on immigration, the approximately 30 Notre Dame students from the affected countries, and the staff who assist them, have been uncertain about their futures. “This is a big change, a big sudden change,” Arman Mirhashemi, a Ph.D. candidate in aerospace and mechanical engineering from
J.P. Gschwind | Tuesday, September 15, 2015
The Kroc Institute sponsored a panel discussion Monday on the recent nuclear deal with Iran at the Hesburgh Institute for International Studies. The event, titled “The Iran Nuclear Agreement: Is it a Good Deal?” featured political science professor Michael Desch, law school professor Mary Ellen O’Connell and adjunct professor Major General Robert Latiff. Moderator David