Morad Saghafi

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| birth_date = 1957

| birth_place = Tehran

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| nationality = Iranian

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Morad Saghafi ({{langx|fa|مراد ثقفی}}; born 1957 in Tehran) is an Iranian journalist, political analyst,{{cite web | last=Fathi | first=Nazila | title=Radical Left, Iran's Last Legal Dissidents, Until Now | website=The New York Times | date=20 January 2008 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/middleeast/20iran.html | accessdate=17 March 2017}} and activist. Saghafi is the editor of Goft-o-Gu (means Dialogue), a journal of research and opinion published in Tehran.{{cite web | title=Morad Saghafi | website=Middle East Research and Information Project | date=9 March 2016 | url=http://www.merip.org/author/morad-saghafi | accessdate=17 March 2017}}

Goft-o-Gu had an important role in explaining the theoretical concepts of civil society in Iran.{{cite web | title=Iran's new head brings dialogue into the open | website=The Independent | date=27 May 1997 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/irans-new-head-brings-dialogue-into-the-open-1263722.html | accessdate=17 March 2017}}

Arrest

On 15 March 2017, Morad Saghafi was arrested during a crackdown on journalists, according to the ILNA news agency following his criticism of the Tehran Municipality and the then mayor. This followed a series of arrests in Iran targeted journalists criticizing the government.{{cite web|url= https://iranwire.com/en/features/64506/ |title= Journalist Arrested After Criticizing Tehran Mayor |publisher= IRANWIRE}}{{cite web|url=https://cpj.org/2017/03/iranian-editor-social-media-moderator-detained.php|title=Iranian editor, social media moderator detained – Committee to Protect Journalists|website=cpj.org|date=28 March 2017 }}{{cite web|url= https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-mps-criticize-social-media-arrests-ahead-of-elections/ | title= Iran MPs criticize social media arrests ahead of elections | publisher = The Times of Israel }}{{cite web|url=https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2017/03/reformist-editor-arrested-by-security-agents-amid-pre-election-crackdown/|title=Reformist Editor Arrested by Security Agents Amid Pre-Election Crackdown – Center for Human Rights in Iran|website=iranhumanrights.org|date=23 March 2017 }}

Selected works

The author has published several acclaimed articles including Why Iran Seems So Unpredictable.{{cite web|url= https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/event/MoradSaghafiFinal.pdf | title= Why Iran Seems So Unpredictable | publisher = Wilson Center }} and the following:

  • {{cite journal |last1= Saghafi |first1= Morad |last2= Ehsani |first2= Kaveh |date= 2004 |title= "The Temptation of Democracy": A Conversation with Morad Saghafi |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/3012916 |journal= Middle East Report |volume= 212 |issue= 212|pages= 47–51 |doi= 10.2307/3012916 |jstor= 3012916 |access-date= 2022-10-12|url-access= subscription }}
  • {{cite book |last= Saghafi |first= Morad |date= 2005 |editor-last1= Judt |editor-first1= Tony |editor-last2= Lacorne |editor-first2= Denis |title= With Us or Against: Studies in Global Anti-Americanism Us |publisher= Palgrave Macmillan, New York |pages= 189-205 |chapter= Chapter 10: Three Sources of Anti-Americanism in Iran |isbn= 978-0-230-60226-7}}
  • {{cite journal |last= Saghafi |first= Morad |date= 1997 |title= The return of Iranian exiles: an unfinished experience |url= http://journals.openedition.org/cemoti/1450 |journal= Study Books on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Turkish-Iranian |volume= |issue= 24|pages= |doi= 10.4000/cemoti.1450 |issn= 0764-9878 |access-date= 2022-11-01|doi-access= free }}
  • {{cite journal |last= Saghafi |first= Morad |date= 1996 |title= The fifth legislative election in Iran: the vote of an unloved republic |url= http://journals.openedition.org/cemoti/146 |journal= Study Books on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Turkish-Iranian |volume= |issue= 22|pages= |doi= 10.4000/cemoti.146 |issn= 1777-5396 |access-date= 2022-11-01}}
  • {{cite journal |last= Saghafi |first= Morad |date= 2001 |title= Crossing the desert: Iranian intellectuals after the Islamic revolution |url= https://doi.org/10.1080/10669920108720176 |journal= Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies |volume= 10 |issue= 18 |pages= 15–45 |doi= 10.1080/10669920108720176 |s2cid= 151585404 |access-date= 2022-11-01|url-access= subscription }}
  • {{cite journal |last1= Saghafi |first1= Morad |last2= Lepen |first2= Raphaëlle |last3= Khatam |first3= Azam |last4= Merat |first4= Zarir |date= 2003 |title= An authoritarian regime in transition |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/24248754 |journal= Spirit |volume= 296 |issue= 7 |pages= 145–158 |issn= 0014-0759 |jstor= 24248754 |access-date= 2022-10-12}}
  • {{cite journal |last1= Saghafi |first1= Morad |last2= Ehsani |first2= Kaveh |date= 2004 |title= The New Landscape of Iranian Politics |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/1559446 |journal= Middle East Report |volume= 233 |issue= 233|pages= 16–23 |doi= 10.2307/1559446 |jstor= 1559446 |access-date= 2022-10-12|url-access= subscription }}
  • {{cite journal |last= Saghafi |first= Morad |date= 2005 |title= Design of switched capacitor filters insensitive to element variations |url= https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/31049/files/EPFL_TH569.pdf |journal= Lausanne |volume= |issue= |pages= |doi= 10.5075/epfl-thesis-569 |access-date= 2022-11-01}}

Further reading

  • {{cite journal |last= Taibakhsh |first= Kian |date= 2000 |title= Political Decentralization and the Creation of Local Government in Iran: Consolidation of Transformation of the Theocratic State? |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/40971477 |journal= Social Research |volume= 67 |issue= 2 |pages= 377-404 |issn= 0037-783X |access-date= 2023-04-18}}

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