From Istanbul to Chicago: Iranian Diaspora Across Time and Space

LECTURE IN ENGLISH

IRANIAN STUDIES OUTREACH I BILINGUAL LECTURE SERIES

SPEAKER

Fariba Zarinebaf obtained her B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Islamic history. Before coming to UC Riverside, Dr. Zarinebaf taught at the University of Virginia, Northwestern University, Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of four books on the urban, social, gender, and legal history of Iran and the From Istanbul to Chicago: Ottoman Empire, and another, entitled Galata Encounters, Cosmopolitanism in an Ottoman Port, is upcoming from the Iranian Diaspora University of California Press. This event is made possible Across Time and Space with the major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies and FEB. 26, 2018 I 2:00 PM I 365 HUMANITIES the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies and the generous support of FARIBA ZARINEBAF (UC RIVERSIDE) The Farhang Foundation Historians have not studied Iranian migration in a systematic manner due largely to the spread of this migration across the globe and the absence of centralized archives, centers, and museums devoted to the study of Iranian migration even in such places as Los Angeles, which encompasses a large Iranian diasporic population. This presentation will trace the first Iranian migration to Istanbul during the late and in collaboration with the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries based on the author’s previous study of UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. this community. Istanbul has been home to a large Iranian presence since Iran’s For more information: first Constitutional Revolution, and an even larger migration after the Islamic www.iranian.ucla.edu Revolution in 1979. In addition, it represents a major center of Iranian tourism (Iranians make up the first or second largest number of tourists to Turkey in the past few years). The lecture shall offer some preliminary findings and then make comparisons with the communities in Chicago and possibly Los Angeles.