Venue:
Royal Automobile Club, 80-90 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HS.

Date and time:
24 February 2005, 19.30-21.30.

Organised by:
Future Generation Committee of the Iran Heritage Foundation.

Introduction:
Rouzbeh Pirouz will be the moderator of a discussion with panellists Ali Ansari and Christopher de Bellaigue. The discussion will center on the way in which Iran’s new generation is participating in and adapting itself to the ever-changing environment of today’s Iran.

The panel discussion will be followed by a reception.

Dr. Ali Ansari is a Reader in Modern History at the University of St. Andrews. He specializes in the political history of the modern Middle East. Dr. Ansari has previously taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London, University of Durham and the University of Exeter. He is currently an Associate Fellow of the Middle East Programme with special reference to Iran, at the Royal Institute for Internations Affairs (Chatham House).

Christopher de Bellaigue has spent the past decade in the Middle East and South Asia. He currently lives in Tehran where he is reporter for The Economist. Mr. De Bellaigue has recently published a book In the Rosegarden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, which is about life in post-revolutionary Iran. He also writes for the New York Review of Books, Granta and the New Yorker.

Admission:
20.00 Pounds (10.00 Pounds for students with proof of status).

Tickets and enquiries:
020 7493 4766, info@iranheritage.org.