Farhad Atai — Curriculum Vitae
Education
Work Experience
Research and other Projects
Awards, Grants, Positions Held
Lectures, Seminars, Papers
Publications
Farhad Atai
11 Twenty First St., Unit # 10
Argentine Sq.
Tehran 15139, Iran
Phone: 98 21) 264-2005
Fax: 98 21) 872-6174
E-mail: atai53@yahoo.com
Education
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1992. Near Eastern Studies.
Ohio University, M.A. 1978. International Affairs.
State University of New York, B.A. 1976. Economics
Languages:
Persian, English, French, Classical Arabic, (Istanbul)Turkish.
Work Experience
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Teaching
(Middle East, Central Asia)
Associate Professor, Imam Sadeq University (formerly Harvard Business
School in Iran), Department of International Relations, 1996- present.
Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on Central Asia, Middle
East, politics and economics of oil, and regional organizations.
Assistant Professor, National University of Iran (Shahid Beheshti),
Department of Political Science, 1994-96. Taught courses and seminars
on Central Asia and the Caucasus (problems in Central Asia and the Caucasus,
government and politics in Central Asia), the Middle East (Middle Eastern
government and politics, international relations of the Middle East,
superpowers in the Middle East, etc.), and history of government in
Islamic societies.
Lecturer, University of Tehran, Department of International Relations,
1993-94. Taught courses on history of Iran’s foreign relations
and graduate seminars on the Middle East.
Lecturer, School of International Relations, Tehran, 1992- 1997. Taught
courses and graduate seminars on history of Iran’s foreign relations,
Middle Eastern and Central Asian studies.
Lecturer, Azad University, Department of Political Science, 1996-97
Spring semester. Taught a graduate course on government and politics
in the Middle East.
(Near Eastern Languages)
1986-1992 University of California, Berkeley. Taught elementary and
intermediate Persian (fundamentals of Persian syntax and morphology,
grammar, selected readings in classical and modern Persian prose and
poetry). Applied the communicative method in teaching the Persian language
for the first time in Berkeley. Developed special teaching material
for Iranian born student of Persian at Berkeley. Taught elementary modern
standard Arabic, summer school 1990.
1975-76 State University of New York, Buffalo. Tutor of Persian at
the Department of Critical Languages.
Research and other Projects
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On-going project; A Persian dictionary of sociological and philosophical
terms derived from Persian classical texts. 1993 - present.
Organized and chaired of the “Lecture Series on Iranian Historiography”
at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Spring
semester 2001.
Organized the panel “Cultural Developments in Iran Since the
Islamic Revolution”, Middle Eastern Studies Association of America
and Canada (MESA) annual conference, Washington D.C., Nov 1999
Organized and chaired the colloquium "Iran and her Northern Neighbors”
at the School of Political Science and Islamic Studies, Imam Sadeq University,
Spring 1999.
Studied Iran’s political, cultural, and economic relations with
the newly independent states of Central Asia, potentials and obstacles
in developing bilateral and multilateral relations with those states.(1995-97)
Carried out a comprehensive on-sight study of art and culture in post-Soviet
Central Asia, 1993-94. The research included an in-depth look at the
institutions supporting art and culture, in the post-Soviet Central
Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Tajikestan, Gyrghyzstan, Turkmenistan,
and Uzbekistan.
Applied the communicative method in teaching Persian for the first
time in University of California in 1989-90 and developed special material
for Iranian born students of Persian who were raised abroad.
Awards, Grants, Positions Held
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Awarded Yarshater Fellowship at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies,
Harvard University, 2000-2001.
Deputy to the Dean for Ph.D. program, School of Islamic Studies and
Political Science, Imam Sadeq University, 1999-2000.
Member of the Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature, Political
Science and International Relations Vocabulary Division.
Member of the editorial board, The Journal of Central Asia and
the Caucasus.
Awarded Scholarship by the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University
of California at Berkeley, 1986-90.
Awarded Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor at the University of
California at Berkeley, 1989-90.
Acting Director, Department of Economic Relations with Asia and Africa,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1983-85.
Awarded fellowship by the Center for International Studies, Ohio University,
1976-78.
Lectures, Seminars, Papers
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Nationalism, Borders, and Trade in Central Asia, Paper presented at
IPIS and Rosa Luxemburg Roundtable, Tehran, Sep 29, 2004.11.07.
Dialogue of Cultures as a Means of Conflict Prevention in Central Asia,
Paper submitted to UNESCO High-Level Conference on Eurasia in the
21st Century; Dialogue of Cultures or Conflict of Civilizations,
Issuk-Kul Gyrghyzstan, June 10-11, 2004.
Relations with Central Asia, Paper presented at the Conference on Iran
Facing the New Century, The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford,
Apr 6, 2004.
The Phenomenon of “Regime Change” in the Middle East and
its implications for the Countries in the Region, Paper presented at
the Seminar on Iran’s Regional Policy, Middle East Technical
University, Ankara, Dec 19, 2003.
Developments in Central Asia and the Caucasus and the Security of Iran,
Paper presented at the Symposium on Iranian Foreign Policy,
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Dec 18, 2003.
Iranian Foreign Policy Concerns in the aftermath of the Wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq, Paper presented at the Symposium on Iranian Foreign Policy,
Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Dec 17, 2003.
Iranian Foreign Policy and Regionalism in Central Asia, Paper presented
at the Round Table of Universities of Oxford and Manchester, and IPIS
on Central Asian Regional Cooperation and the New Strategic Order,
Tehran, Dec 7, 2003.
Geopolitics and Cultural Relations in Central Asia, Paper presented
at the International Conference on the Dialogue of Civilizations,
Almaty, Oct 22, 2001.
“Rivals in Central Asia? Turkish and Iranian Initiatives in the
Region”, Paper presented at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies’
Forum at Harvard University, March 13, 2001.
“Turkey’s Foreign Policy for the 21st Century”, Paper
presented at the 3rd International Conference “Turkey in the 21st
Century: Changing Role in World Politics? April 26th - 28th 2000, International
Center for Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, Eastern Mediterranean
University, TRNC.
“A New Outlook in Turkey’s Regional Policy”, Lecture
delivered at the School of Economics and Political Science, The National
University of Iran (Shahid Beheshti), Dec 20, 1999.
“State-Managed Art and Culture: Central Asia and the Caucasus
Under the Soviet Union”, Paper presented at the Annual Conference
of Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), Washington D.C., Nov.
19-22, 1999 (Previously presented at the International Seminar on Culture,
Society, and Politics in Central Asia, India International Center, New
Delhi, November 20-22, 1998.)
“Iran’s Perception of Central Asia and the Caucasus; Prospects
for Cooperation in the Post-Soviet Era”, Lecture delivered at
the Middle East Institute, Washington D.C., December 11, 1998.
“Culture, Identity, and Nation-Building in Central Asia and the
Caucasus”, Seminar conducted at the Institute for the Transregional
Study of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, Princeton
University, November 24, 1998.
“Iran and Turkey in Post-Soviet Central Asia”, Public lecture
delivered at the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Middle
East, North Africa, and Central Asia, Princeton University, November
23, 1998.
“Presentation of Nomadic Life in Iranian Documentary Cinema;
The Flaming Poppy and Balut”, Presentation and
Lecture delivered at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University
of California, Berkeley, April 19, 1998.
“The Evolution of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign
Policy in Central Asia”, Lecture delivered at the Department of
Theological and Religious Studies, University of San Diego, April 15,
1998.
“Post-Soviet Central Asian Art and Culture in Transition; Change
for Better or for Worse?” Paper delivered at the Annual Symposium
on Cultural Studies of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, Cultural
Negotiations in the Soviet Aftermath, Columbia University, March
27-28, 1998.
“Iran and the Newly Independent States of Central Asia”,
Paper delivered at the 14th annual Conference of the Center for Iranian
Research and Analysis (CIRA), in Coventry, UK, March 29, 1996.
“Art and Culture in Post Soviet Central Asia”, a series
of lectures delivered at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University
of California at Berkeley, February 15-17, 1996.
“A look to the North and North East; Central Asia and the Caucasus
Scince the Collapse of the Soviet Union”, Lecture delivered at
the School of Economic and Political Sciences, the National University
of Iran (Shahid Beheshti), October 11, 1995.
“Problems Facing Cultural Activities in Tajikestan”, Paper
presented at the Annual Conference on Central Asia and the Caucasus
at the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), Tehran,
1993.
“Education and Modernism in the Middle East, A Comparative Study
of Student Missions to Europe in the 19th Century (Iran, Egypt, and
the Ottoman Empire), Lecture delivered at the Colloquium in Middle East
Studies, University of California at San Diego (UCSD), June 5, 1992.
“The Communicative Method in Near Eastern Languages; Teaching
Persian, Learning Turkish.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the Teachers of Persian, University of California in Los Angeles
(UCLA), summer 1991.
“The Iranian Graduates of European Schools and the Constitution
Revolution of 1906.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference
of the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), in Toronto, Canada,
1989.
Publications
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Book
Dictionary of Social Science and Philosophical Terms, co-authored
with the late Professor Gholam Hoseyn Yousofi and Daryuosh Ashuori,
Forthcoming.
Art and Culture in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Forthcoming.
Chapter in Book
A Look to the North; Opportunities and Challenges”, Iran
Facing the New Century, Homa Katouzian ed., Oxford, Forthcoming.
“Iran and the Newly Independent States of Central Asia”,
Iran and Eurasia, A. Mohammadi and Ehtesami, eds, Ithaca, 2000.
“State-Managed Art and Culture; the Case of Central Asia under
the Soviet Union”, Culture, Society, and Politics in Central
Asia, P. Khosla ed., IIC, New Delhi, 1999.
Articles, Book Reviews
“Nationalism and Nation-States in Central Asia and the Caucasus”,
Central Asia and the Caucasus Review, Vol. 44, Winter 1383
(2004).
“Naqdi bar Tarikh-e Jawame’-e Eslami (A Revue of History
of Islamic Societies), Danesh-e Siyasi, Vol. 1, no. 1, Winter
1382 (2003).
“Amniyat-e Asiya-i Markazi (Central Asian Security)”, Central
Asia and the Caucasus Review, Vol. 35, Autumn 2001.
“Negareshi Jadid dar Siyasat-e Mantaqa-i ye Torkiyeh (A new Outlook
in Turkey’s Regional Policy)”, Middle East Quarterly,
Vol. 5, No. 18, Autumn 1999.
“Post-Soviet Art and Culture in Central Asia”, The
Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, Autumn 1998.
“Marzha-ye Mosalman Neshin-e Rusiyeh” (Russia’s Muslim
Frontiers), Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 5, Spring 1996.
“Mantaqeh-ye Qafqaz va Binazmi-ye pas az Showravi”(The
Caucasus and Post-Soviet Disorder), Middle East Quarterly,
Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1995, pp. 498-503.
“E’zam-e Daneshjuyan-e Irani va Mesri va Osmani be Orupa;
Nawgara’i dar Khavar-e Miyaneh” (The Sending of Iranian,
Egyptian, and Ottoman Students to Europe; Modernism in the Middle East),
The Iranian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 3, No. 2,
1372 (1993).
“Moruri bar Tarikhcheh va Vaz’iyat-e Fe’li-e Keshvarha-ye
Asiya-ye Markazi” (A Review of the Present Status and the History
of Central Asian States), The Journal of Central Asia and the Caucasus,
Vol. 1, No. 2, 1371 (1992).
Translations
Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics, by Olga
M. Davidson, Nashr-i Farzan, Tehran, 1380 (2001).
Lamentation of Women in Shahnameh, by Olga M. Davidson, Bukhara,
Spring 1379 (2001). Vol 2, no12.
Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings, by Olga M. Davidson, (Sha’er
va Pahlavan dar Shahname), Nashr-i Tarikh, Tehran, 1378 (2000).
“Co-operatives and Government”, Co-Operatives and the
Canadian Society, (Sazmanha-ye Ta’avoni va Jame’e-ye
Kanada), Murrey E. Fulton ed., Tehran, 1375 (1996). pp. 251-285.
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