Dr. Mahnaz Shirali is an

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author and

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. She graduated in architecture engineering from faculty of fine arts of

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in 1992. She moved to France in 1994 where she obtained her PhD in sociology from

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in Paris in 2000. Her

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was about crisis in youth Iranian generation. She was then appointed as a lecturer of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) as political sociologist and an expert on Iran, as well as director of studies at the

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. She, as a writer and expert on Iran, has collaborated with various

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and French-speaking media around the world such as

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, Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS),

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, Radio France Culture,

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, Liberté Algeria,

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, RT France and the

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She has authored several books in French and English on the sociological, political, religious and historical aspects of

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. Among them are ''The Mystery of Contemporary Iran'' and ''La jeunesse iranienne: une génération en crise''. Mahnaz Shirali is a

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and Iranian women's rights activist and has lectured at various congresses in the field.

Bibliography

* Mahnaz Shirali
The Mystery of Contemporary Iran
New Brunswik (USA) and London (UK), Transaction Publishers, October 2014, 276 p. *Mahnaz Shirali
La malédiction du religieux. L’échec de la pensée démocratique en Iran
Préface de Dominique Schnapper, Paris, François Bourin éditeur, septembre 2012, 470 p. *Mahnaz Shirali and Dominique Schnapper
Entre islam et démocratie: parcours de jeunes français d'aujourd'hui
Paris, Armand-Colin, octobre 2007, 291 p. *Mahnaz Shirali
La jeunesse iranienne : une génération en crise, Préface d’Alain Touraine
Paris, Le Monde/Presses Universitaires de France, Quatrième édition du "Prix Le Monde de la recherche universitaire", novembre 2001, 250 p.

References

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