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<img alt="" src="cid:part1.07040900.07080303@mynas.com" align="right"
height="664" hspace="10" width="514">Mark your calendar! Booking
reading/signing w/ author Dr Kaveh Afrasiabi; selected online article
& video links at bottom of email; <span style="color: windowtext;"></span><a
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href="http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Rights-Harvard-Kaveh-Afrasiabi/dp/1439268835/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280279273&sr=8-1">book
available here
at amazon.com</a><br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 36pt; line-height: 120%;"><font
color="#bbcc30"><b>Book
reading</b></font></span></p>
<p><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 28pt;" arial="" ,=""
sans-serif="" ;="" color:="" rgb(192,="" 0,="" 0);=""><font
color="#c00000">Looking for Rights at Harvard</font><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p><b style=""><span style="" arial="" ,="" sans-serif="" ;="" color:=""
rgb(192,="" 0,="" 0);=""><big><font color="#c00000">A modern day
'David and Goliath' story</font></big><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;" arial="" ,="" sans-serif="" ;=""><b>The
harrowing true story of human rights violation at Harvard University</b>
and the long battle by the author, a renowned political scientist and
author of
several books and numerous articles in prestigious journals including
Harvard
publications, that transpired in courts in Massachusetts and ultimately
reached the US Supreme Court.<o:p></o:p></span><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><big><font color="#c00000"><b><span style="" arial="" ,=""
sans-serif="" ;="" color:="" rgb(192,="" 0,="" 0);="">One
man's pursuit of justice against the establishment</span></b></font></big><span
style="" arial="" ,="" sans-serif="" ;="" color:="" rgb(192,="" 0,=""
0);=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><o:p></o:p><span style="color: windowtext;">The author, Kaveh
Afrasiabi,
a former research scholar at Harvard, was arrested in 1996 by Harvard
University police accusing him of serious crimes of extortion.
Afrasiabi was cleared of all the charges. Three years later, the same
police officers
stood trial in a federal court, charged with conspiracy to frame
Afrasiabi in
order to silence him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p> </o:p>With lucid
objectivity, Afrasiabi narrates his ordeal of wrongful imprisonment,
studying at a
religious seminary after losing his job, and the travails of
representing himself
against Harvard's attorneys in a civil rights trial featuring such
luminaries
as the media icon Mike Wallace, acclaimed filmmaker David Mamet, and
historian
Howard Zinn.<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<big><font color="#bbcc30"><b>Thursday, 2010</b></font></big><br>
<font color="#bbcc30"><b><span style="font-size: 36pt;">August 12,
7-9</span><span style="font-size: 22pt;">pm</span></b></font><span
style="font-size: 36pt;"><o:p></o:p></span>
<p><o:p> </o:p><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(187, 204, 48);">Presentation,
readings, discussion and book signing with
Dr Kaveh Afrasiabi<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.andalacafe.com/">Andala Coffee
House</a>,
downstairs<br>
286 Franklin St<o:p></o:p><br>
Cambridge, MA<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">Central Square T-stop</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: windowtext;">A limited number of copies will be
available for purchase at this book reading</span><br>
<span style="color: windowtext;">You can order the book in advance <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Rights-Harvard-Kaveh-Afrasiabi/dp/1439268835/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280279273&sr=8-1">here
at amazon.com</a><br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td valign="top">"<i>It's outrageous what they have done to him.
I admire Afrasiabi for his courage, dignity and the brilliance
displayed in his legal battle as a pro se.</i>" ~<big><b>Howard Zinn</b></big>,
historian and author of A People’s History of the United States<br>
<br>
“<i>I admire Dr. Afrasiabi. He has been wronged. The canons of Harvard
are lined up against a pea shooter.</i>” ~<big><b>Mike Wallace</b></big>,
CBS ’60 Minutes’ correspondent [ see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL21nDnuqpY">never before seen
testimony of CBS "60 Minutes" icon, Mike Wallace</a> ] <br>
<br>
“<i>Incredible, even by Harvard’s standards!</i>” ~<big><b>Noam Chomsky</b></big>,
MIT linguist and peace activist<br>
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<h2><big><b>More about the author:</b></big></h2>
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi has a Ph.D. in political science and specializes in
Iran's foreign and nuclear affairs. Afrasiabi has taught at Tehran
University and Boston University, and has done research at Harvard
University, University of California at Berkeley, and the Center For
Strategic Research, a think tank in Tehran. Afrasiabi has been a
consultant to the United Nations' Program on Dialogue Among
Civilizations as well as to CBS' Television. <br>
<br>
Afrasiabi has published several books, book chapters, and numerous
articles in prestigious journals and newspapers, including: <i><b>After
Khomeini: New Directions in Iran's Foreign Policy</b></i> (Westview), <i><b>Islam
and Ecology</b></i> (Harvard University Press), and articles in UN
Chronicle, Middle East Journal, Harvard Theological Review, Brown's
Journal of World Affairs, Telos, Mediterannean Affairs, New York Times,
International Herald Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe,
Asia Times, Der Tagesspiegel, etc. He is a co-author of <i><b>Reading
In Iran Foreign Policy After September 11</b></i>. <br>
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<h2><b><big>Dr Kaveh Afrasiabi online - selected links</big></b></h2>
video: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=video&cd=1&ved=0CDMQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqQjjaaeLP-k&ei=84ZPTPqHGoOC8ga9zKDYDQ&usg=AFQjCNGcyoSB5KNoxelbEn2SA6WVUWEdGw">Interview:
were the Iranian elections rigged?</a><br>
video: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2009/12/30/ctw.iran.protests.afrasiabi.cnn.html">CNN's
Becky Anderson talks with Kaveh Afrasiabi re claims of Western meddling
in internal affairs of Iran</a><br>
article on AsiaTimes: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LE19Ak04.html">Ball now
in wary West's court</a><br>
poetry on Iranian.com: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.iranian.com/Afrasiabi/2006/April/Poetry/index.html">Infringements
II</a><br>
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