17:00 -19:00 hours
Iran: the resilience of the secular middle class
International Institute of Social History: Fifth Annual Sadighi lecture by Prof Dr Farhad Khosrokhavar
Middle classes in Iran have been traditionally dual: those belonging to the pious strata of the population and those who are effectively secular. In Iran, during Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's reign (1941-1979), secular middle classes were politically weak and culturally homogeneous.