Golbarg Bashi

Golbarg Bashi, born in Ahvaz, Iran, is an Iranian-Swedish feminist professor of Iranian Studies at Rutgers University in the United States. Among other topics, Bashi has published works and given public talks about human rights in the Middle East and the situation of women in Iran.

Biography
Golbarg Bashi was born in Iran, raised in Sweden, and educated in the British Russell Group universities of Manchester and Bristol and obtained her doctorate degree from the Ivy league Columbia University in New York City. Her doctoral research focused on a feminist critique of the human rights discourse in Iran. She is married to Columbia University professor, Hamid Dabashi.

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. She was also selected as a candidate for the Greens in the Swedish municipal elections for the city of Kramfors in 2002.

Brainquake
In April 2010, Golbarg Bashi launched Brainquake together with Duke University's Negar Mottahedeh in response to Boobquake.

Publications
Among other topics, Bashi has published works about the situation of women in Iran.
 * http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/01/from-one-third-world-woman-to-another.html From One Third World Woman to Another: A Conversation with Gayatri Spivak, in PBS's Frontline Tehran Bureau (January 2010).
 * http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/07/picturing-ourselves-1953-1979-and-2009.html Picturing Ourselves: 1953, 1979 and 2009: A Conversation with Negar Mottahedeh, in PBS's Frontline Tehran Bureau (July 2009).
 * http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/07/iranian-feminism-after-june-2009.html Iranian Feminism after June 2009: A Conversation with Zillah Eisenstein, in PBS's Frontline Tehran Bureau (June, 2009).
 * http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/06/feminist-waves-in-the-iranian-green-tsunami.html Feminist waves in the Iranian Green Tsunami?, in PBS's Tehran Bureau (June, 2009).
 * 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., in Znet (January 2007).
 * 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. German version Staatsbürgerrechte im Iran: Nur ein kleiner Schritt vorwärts and Arabic version تعديل قانون منح الجنسية في إيران:في الطريق إلى المساواة بين المرأة والرجل, in Qantara, Deutsche Welle (September 2006).
 * 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.netnative.com/news/06/jun/1124.html A Historic Landmark: Women’s Rights Gathering in Tehran on June 12, in OpenDemocracy and Payvand (July 2006).
 * http://www.payvand.com/news/06/mar/1067.html Eyewitness History: Interview with Ayatollah Montazeri, Payvand (March 2006). |به فارسی One Million Signatures.