Azadeh Kian

Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut (born 1958) is an Iranian-French academic, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Gender and Feminist Studies at the University of Paris.[1]

Biography

From 1987 to 1990, Kian was a lecturer in political sociology at UCLA. In 1995 she joined the faculty of University Paris III, and later the University of Paris VIII Saint Denis. She is a research expert on Iranian and Maghreb studies, and is a researcher for the Iranian laboratory CNRS. Notable works include Avoir vingt ans en Iran (Alternatives, 1999), Les femmes iraniennes entre islam État et famille (Maisonneuve & Larose, 2002) and La République islamique d'Iran : de la maison du Guide à la raison d'État (Michalon, 2005).[2] In 1996 she published the article Des femmes iraniennes contre le clergé: islamistes et laiques pour la premiere fois unies in Le Monde diplomatique,[3] and in 2010 she published the article Islamic Feminism in Iran: A New Form of Subjugation or the Emergence of Agency? in Critique internationale journal.[4] In her works, she is critical of Islamic laws (shari'a) in Muslim countries and sees them as a threat to women's rights of equality.[5]

Publications
  • Thiébaut, Azadeh. Secularization of Iran: a Doomed Failure? The New Middle Class and the Making of Modern Iran (Travaux et memoires de l'Institut d'Etudes iraniennes). Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 1998. ISBN 9042900326
  • Thiébaut, Azadeh. Les femmes iraniennes entre islam, Etat et famille. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2002. ISBN 2706816147
  • Eshraghi, Isabelle, Azadeh Thiébaut Thiébaut, and Seyyed E. Nabavi. Avoir 20 ans à Téhéran. Paris: Ed. Alternatives, 1999. ISBN 2862271942

References
  1. "Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut". Middle East Institute. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  2. "Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut". Bibliomonde.com. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  3. Sarah Ansari; Vanessa Martin (May 2014). Women, Religion and Culture in Iran. Routledge. p. 142. ISBN 9781317793403.
  4. "Articles by Azadeh Kian". Cairn International. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  5. ViSA: Instrumentation de la recherche en éducation (in French). Les Editions de la MSH. 2013. p. 89. ISBN 9782735116218.


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