MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2016



Jailed for Teaching Physics: Denial of education to the Baha'i community in Iran

Brian Aull, Member of MIT Board of Chaplains

Jan/29 Fri 12:30PM-01:30PM 1-150

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None

The Baha'i Faith is an independent world religion that originated in Iran in the mid 1800's.   In Iran, the Baha'i community is the largest religious minority, and is subjected to systematic persecution by the government and Islamic clergy.   This session is for professors and others in the academic community to make them aware of one aspect of this persecution:  the denial of higher education to Baha'is and the imprisonment of faculty members of the Baha'i Institute for Higher Education.   One of these prisoners, an MIT alumnus recently released after serving a four-year term, tells his story in the current issue of Technology Review Magazine:

http://www.technologyreview.com/article/543876/my-unwanted-sabbatical/

 

 

Sponsor(s): Bahai Association
Contact: Brian Aull, LL-LI-127C, 781 981-4676, bfaull@mit.edu