Golbarg Bashi

Golbarg Bashi (PerB| گلبرگ باشی) is an Iranian-Swedish feminist academic and human rights activist. She was educated in the British Russell Group universities of Manchester and Bristol.

She is a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York where her husband, the noted scholar of Iran and post-colonial theorist, Hamid Dabashi is also based.

Bashi has tackled areas of academic inquiry that include human rights, prevention of torture, Black and Third-world feminisms, postcolonial theory, Iranian women's studies, and the politics of media representation of gender, race and ethics.

She has interviewed the once heir apparent to the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri in the Shi'i heartland city of Qom [http://www.payvand.com/news/06/mar/1067.html] , and is also known for her criticism of "secular fundamentalist" feminists of Iranian origin in Diaspora for their siding with racist policies against Muslims in Europe and North America [http://www.payvand.com/news/07/mar/1062.html] , [http://www.payvand.com/news/05/nov/1148.html] and for their hatred and counter-offensives against the positive developments of the women's movement inside Iran [http://raha.gooya.name/english/archives/040393.php ] .

Bashi has been a member of the Green Party of Sweden where she was elected in 2002 as an executive member of the party's Women's Committee [http://mp.se/templates/template_83.asp?number=63639] . She was also selected as a Green candidate in the Swedish municipal elections for the city of Kramfors in 2002 [http://www.val.se/val/val_02/slutresultat/22K/2282/228200.html] .

Writings

* [http://www.payvand.com/news/07/mar/1062.html Shedding Crocodile Tears] , Payvand News
* [http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12010 A Genre in the Service of Empire: An Iranian Feminist Critique of Diasporic Memoirs] , by Bashi et al, Znet
* [http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-512/i.html Citizenship Rights in Iran: One Step Forward, Many More to Take] , Qantara, Deutsche Welle. In German [http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-469/_nr-578/i.html Staatsbürgerrechte im Iran: Nur ein kleiner Schritt vorwärts] and in Arabic [http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-471/_nr-447/i.html تعديل قانون منح الجنسية في إيران:في الطريق إلى المساواة بين المرأة والرجل]
* [http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jul/1100.html The Proper Etiquette of Meeting Shahrnush Parsipur in the United States] , Payvand and The Persian Book Review (ISSUE XVI, NO. 48, FALL 2006)
* [http://www.opendemocracy.net/openblogs/blog/od/?permalink=Womens-rights-gathering-Tehran-12-June-2006.html&smm=y A HISTORIC LANDMARK: Women’s Rights Gathering in Tehran on June 12th] , OpenDemocracy
* [http://www.payvand.com/news/06/mar/1067.html Eyewitness History: Interview with Ayatollah Montazeri] , Payvand
* [http://raha.gooya.name/english/archives/040393.php Sanctions placed on Iran by Iranians] , Gooya News
* [http://www.irandokht.com/editorial/index4.php?area=pro&sectionID=8&editorialID=1021 Review of ‘The End of the World’] , Irandokht
* [http://freethoughts.org/archives/000771.php#more Ideological Tyranny in Iranian Women’s Studies] , Free Thoughts on Iran. (Longer version available at [http://www.payvand.com/news/05/nov/1148.html Payvand News] )
* [http://www.iranian.com/Women/2005/October/Paidar2/ Across the Secular-Religious Divide: Obituary on Parvin Paidar] , The Iranian
* [http://news.gooya.com/english/archives/033176.php Crisis in Iranian Women’s Studies] , Gooya News
* [http://www.iranian.com/BTW/2003/October/Ebadi2/ The Catalyst: With Shirin Ebadi’s Nobel Prize, I Became Empowered] , The Iranian

See also

*Human rights in the Middle East
*Human rights in the United States
*Torture
*Postcolonial feminism
*Third-world feminism
*Women's rights

External links

* [http://www.golbargbashi.com/ Official homepage]
* [http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5280.shtml Golbarg Bashi's photography]