Golbarg Bashi ( fa, گلبرگ باشی), born in

Ahvaz Ahvaz ( fa, اهواز, Ahvâz ) is a city in the southwest of Iran and the capital of Khuzestan province. Ahvaz's population is about 1,300,000 and its built-up area with the nearby town of Sheybani is home to 1,136,989 inhabitants. It is hom ...

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, is an Iranian-Swedish

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and former adjunct lecturer of

Iranian studies Iranian studies ( fa, ايران‌شناسی '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It ...

in the US. Among other topics, Bashi has published works and given talks about

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in the Middle East and the situation of

women in Iran Throughout history, women in Iran have played numerous roles, and contributed in many ways, to Iranian society. Historically, tradition maintained that women be confined to their homes so that they could manage the household and raise children ...

Biography

Golbarg Bashi was born 06.01.1974 in Iran, raised in

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, and educated at the Universities of

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and

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and obtained her doctorate degree from

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. Her doctoral research focused on a feminist critique of the human rights discourse in Iran. Bashi is the author of the children's book ''P is for Palestine: A Palestine Book'', an English-language alphabet book about

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, written from a social-justice perspective. The book also promotes Palestinian nationalism. In 2016, she was nominated for a U.S. toy industry award where she was shortlisted in the Designer/Inventor category at the Women In Toys ‘Wonder Woman’ Awards. Fellow nominees included executives at

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, and

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. Bashi is also a visual artist. Her images have been published in the New York Times, Aljazeera English, CNN, BBC News, and Amnesty International. In 2002, Bashi was a member of the Green Party of Sweden where she was elected as an executive member of the party's Women's Committee. She was also selected as a candidate for the Greens in the Swedish municipal elections for the city of

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in 2002. She used to be married to

professor,

Hamid Dabashi Hamid Dabashi ( fa, حمید دباشی; born 1951) is an Iranian-American professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City. He is the author of over twenty books. Among them are ''Theology of Disc ...

with whom she has two children. She is an atheist.Atheism: A Non-believing Shi'i's Perspective
olbarg Bashi's official blog. 21 December 2014

Brainquake

In April 2010, Golbarg Bashi launched Brainquake together with Duke University's

Negar Mottahedeh Negar Mottahedeh is a cultural critic and film theorist specializing in interdisciplinary and feminist contributions to the fields of Middle Eastern Studies and Film Studies. Early life She is known for her work on Iranian Cinema, but has als ...

. Brainquake was a criticism of the

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event, which Bashi argued was an unhelpful and inappropriate way of drawing attention to legitimate issues. The issue at hand was a statement by Tehran's leader in Friday Prayer, saying that women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously cause earthquakes. Bashi and Brainquake advocates argued that instead of highlighting one's physical differences, women should show off their CVs and lists of accomplishments.

Publications

Among other topics, Bashi has published works about the situation of women in Iran.
From One Third World Woman to Another
A Conversation with

Gayatri Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 24 February 1942) is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is a University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Lite ...

, in PBS's ''Frontline'' Tehran Bureau (January 2010).
Picturing Ourselves: 1953, 1979 and 2009
A Conversation with

, in PBS's ''Frontline'' Tehran Bureau (July 2009).
Iranian Feminism after June 2009: A Conversation with Zillah Eisenstein, in PBS's ''Frontline'' Tehran Bureau (June, 2009).
* ttp://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12010A Genre in the Service of Empire: An Iranian Feminist Critique of Diasporic Memoirs by Bashi et al., in

Znet Z Communications is a left-wing activist-oriented media group founded in 1986 by Michael Albert and Lydia Sargent.Max Elbaum''Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che'' London, England, UK; New York, New York, US: Vers ...

(January 2007).
Citizenship Rights in Iran: One Step Forward, Many More to Take.

* [http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-471/_nr-447/i.html تعديل قانون منح الجنسية في إيران:في الطريق إلى المساواة بين المرأة والرجل], in Qantara, Deutsche Welle (September 2006). Arabic version
The Proper Etiquette of Meeting Shahrnush Parsipur in the United States, ''Payvand'' and ''The Persian Book Review'' (ISSUE XVI, NO. 48, FALL 2006).
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20091031081333/http://www.sign4change.info/spip.php?article492 , به فارسی Eyewitness History: Interview with Ayatollah Montazeri, ''Payvand'' (March 2006).
[One Million Signatures]
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References

External links

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Biography

Brainquake

Publications

See also

References

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