LA AJU Menashri evite C.indd - A Time to Betray

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                                                                   “IRAN
                     Tuesday, January 11, 2011
                                6:00 – 8:00 pm
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Reza Kahlili                                                         Dr. Sharon Nazarian Baradaran
Former undercover CIA operative                                      President
with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards                                Y&S Nazarian Family Foundation
                 “Reza Kahlili“ is the pseudonym of a                                  Dr. Sharon Baradaran is President of the
                 former Iranian Revolutionary Guard                                    Y&S Nazarian Family Foundation, with a
                 member who worked undercover as a                                     branch in Israel named Ima Foundation,
                 CIA agent for several years in the ‘80s                               created to promote and support
                 and ‘90s.                                                             educational causes throughout the United
                                                                                       States and Israel. She currently teaches
                  Educated in Tehran and the U.S., he
                                                                     as an adjunct professor at the University of California Los
joined the Guard believing it would be part of a democratic
                                                                     Angeles in the Department of Political Science, and is the
Iranian future. Disillusioned by the atrocities he witnessed,
                                                                     founder of the UCLA Israel Studies Program, housed in
he returned to America and emerged as “Wally,” a CIA
                                                                     the university’s International Institute, and is Chair of its
spy risking daily exposure in the dangerous world of
                                                                     Advisory Board.
counterintelligence.
                                                                     Dr. Baradaran sits on the boards of American Friends of
He is the author of A Time to Betray: The Astonishing
                                                                     Hebrew University, American Society of the University
Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards
                                                                     of Haifa, the Iranian Jewish Women’s Organization, and
of Iran, a winner of The National Best Books 2010 Awards.
                                                                     serves on the Executive Committee and the Education
Today a U.S. resident, he is an active voice for a free Iran.
                                                                     Pillar of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles.


                                  Prof. David Menashri
                                  Founding Director, Center for Iranian Studies
                                  Tel Aviv University
                                                  Prof. David Menashri is the Founding
                                                  Director of the Center for Iranian Studies,
                                                  Incumbent of the Parviz and Pouran
                                                  Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian
                                                  Studies, Senior Research Fellow at the
                                                  Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern
                                  and African Studies, and Professor at the Department of
                                  Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University.

                                  He has been a visiting Fulbright scholar at both Princeton
                                  and Cornell Universities, and a visiting scholar at the
                                  Universities of Chicago, Melbourne, Munich and Waseda
                                  (Tokyo). In the late 1970’s, he spent two years conducting
                                  research and field studies in Iranian universities on the eve
                                  of the Islamic Revolution. His latest publication, with Liora
                                  Hendelman-Baavur, is Iran: Anatomy of Revolution.


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