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Abdolkarim Soroush

was born in Tehran in 1945. Upon finishing high school, Soroush began studying Pharmacy after passing the National Entrance exams of Iran. After completing his degree, he soon left for London in order to continue his studies and to become familiar with the modern world.
It was after graduating in analytical chemistry from graduate school at London that he went to Chelsea College, for studying history and philosophy of science, spending the next five and a half years there. During these years, confrontation between the people and the Shah's regime was gradually becoming more serious, and political gatherings of Iranians in America and Europe, and Britain in particular, were on the increase. Soroush, too, was thus drawn into the field
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Abdol-Ali Bazargan

The elder son of Mehdi Bazargan, the late Prime Minister of Iran, Mohandes Abdol-Ali Bazargan was born in 1944 in Tehran.

Although an architect by trade, Mr. Bazargan's long religious and political activities date back to early 60's with his membership in the National Front's Youth Group while still in high school. A couple of years later he helped found the Islamic Student Association of Shahid Beheshti University (then, known as the National University of Iran). But, his political activities did not end there. Mr. Bazargan subsequently signed up and remained an active member of various Islamic and progressive movements including the political wing of Iran's Freedom Movement since 1975. Some of those activities did not sit well with those in government earning him multiple convictions in Iranian military and revolutionary courts (both before and after the revolution) costing him between 4 months and 2 years prison sentences in 1972 and 1991, respectively.

Mahmoud Sadri

Department of Sociology and Social Work

Education
Ph.D., Sociology, July 1988

New School University, New York, New York

M.A., Sociology, 1976

University of Teheran, Teheran, Iran

B.A., Sociology, 1974

University of Teheran, Teheran, Iran

Prior Academic Employment
1989-1991 Full Time Visiting Assistant Professor, North Western University

1998 Associate Professor of Sociology, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas

1992 Editorial Board, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society.

1992 Full member, the Graduate Faculty, Texas Woman's University.

Reza Sadr

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

* Completion of entire Islamic Seminary Education in holy city of Qom to the level of post-seminary and extra-religious studies

* Holder of Doctorate degree in Religious Studies from University of Tehran

* Holder of Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Masters of Science degree in Management Science, both from the U.S.

Arash Naraghi

Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Moravian College, PA.

EDUCATION

University of California, Santa Barbara,
PhD, , Philosophy, 2008
Dissertation Title: Moral dilemmas in the Context of Virtue Ethics
(Supervised by Professor Matthew Hanser)
MA, Philosophy, 2003

University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
PhD, Pharmacology, 1991

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

Normative Ethics: Virtue Ethics, and Consequentialism