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โจ ๐๐ผ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ถ๐บ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฐ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ฟ. ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐๐น-๐๐๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฟ. ๐ ๐ฎ๐ต๐ฑ๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ โจ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป, ๐๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ด๐ป๐๐, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ฝ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐
๐๏ธ May 9, Saturday
โฐ 11am โ 2pm
๐ Trades Hall, 124 Vivian Street, Te Aro
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Blurb: The US-Israeli attack on Iran has been the most dramatic escalation of the regional war in the Middle East. Its impact has been felt across the world, and its politics has tested our collective ability to grasp its meaning and its stakes.
This is an opportunity to deepen our understanding of post-colonial and post-revolutionary states in the region, how they have evolved under imperial aggression, and why Iran stands alone today. We also discuss the contradictions of Western activism in relation to Iran and the wider region, and ask what avenues remain open for genuine solidarity and anti-imperialism.
Speakers Bio:
Dr. Faisal Al-Asaad is an independent scholar and writer who studies the politics of race, settler colonialism, and imperialism. He also works with the Al-Rifaq translation collective.
Dr. Mahdis Azarmandi is a scholar of Peace and Conflict Studies whose work examines how war and peace are shaped within a global system structured by imperialism, capitalism, and colonialism. Trained in Political Science and Peace and Conflict Studies, her research interrogates how dominant frameworks of โpeaceโ often obscure the uneven distribution of violence, and how global hierarchies determine which conflicts are recognised, legitimised, or ignored. Her work on โracial silence in peace studiesโ traces how race underpins these distinctions, challenging narratives that position the West as a site of peace while locating violence elsewhere. Dr. Azarmandi currently works at the University of Canterbury, in the Faculty of Education, School of Social and Cultural Studies in Education. Her teaching and research connect peace studies with questions of justice, focusing on how systems of power shape knowledge, institutions, and everyday life. Her interdisciplinary work spans education, antiracism and memory work, examining how histories of violence and struggle are carried, contested, and reinterpreted across different contexts.
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Trades Hall, 126 Vivian Street,Wellington, New Zealand
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