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Opening a Space for the Audience: A Dialogue with Kamran Rastegar about Composing MENA Cinema Soundtracks
Full text linkThis article is an edited transcript of a dialogue between the comparative literature professor, musician and composer Kamran Rastegar and film scholar Shohini Chaudhuri. While existing interviews and analysis on film composing largely focus on Hollywood practice, this dialogue provides new insights from Rastegar’s experiences of composing soundtracks for independent Middle Eastern cinema – specifically, his collaboration with the Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir. It explores his musical training and background, his roles as composer, music supervisor and musician, the process of film composing, approaches to music in film scholarship, and sound-image relations and musical choices in Jacir’s films Like Twenty Impossibles (2003), Salt of this Sea (2008) and When I Saw You (2012)
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Iran’s New Protests Explained - Interview with Kamran Matin
No full textAfter years of economic decline, sanctions, and political repression, protests have once again spread across Iran. What began with demonstrations by bazaar merchants in Tehran over the collapse of the national currency has expanded into a broader wave of unrest across dozens of cities, with reports of deaths, arrests, and growing pressure on the state.In this in-depth interview, Mahtab Mahboub, contributor to The Amargi, speaks with Kamran Matin, Reader in International Relations at the University of Sussex, about the structural forces driving Iran’s latest protests.Drawing on Iran’s political economy, regional geopolitics, and the aftermath of recent military escalation, Matin argues that the current unrest is shaped not only by economic hardship, but by a deeper crisis of legitimacy following intensified sanctions, the suspension of nuclear diplomacy, and the fallout from the June 12-day war.In this video, we explore:Why the protests began in Tehran’s bazaar, and what that signals about the regime’s social baseHow sanctions, inflation, and diplomatic deadlock have closed off prospects for economic reliefThe long-term role of foreign policy in sustaining the Islamic Republic’s internal legitimacyHow the collapse of Iran’s regional power projection has weakened that strategyComparisons between the current protests and earlier waves in 2017, 2019, and the Jin Jiyan Azadi movementThe rise of monarchist narratives around Reza Pahlavi, and their limits inside IranWhether cracks within Iran’s security apparatus resemble early dynamics of the 1979 revolutionAbout the guest:Kamran Matin is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex and the author of Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change. He writes extensively on Iranian, Kurdish, and Middle Eastern politics, focusing on the intersection of domestic crises and international power structures.Watch the full conversation for a grounded analysis of why Iran’s current protest wave reflects a more profound crisis within the post-revolutionary order and why its outcome remains deeply uncertain.</p
DAVID BURGE, piano "New Music for the Piano" Thursday, September 19, 1985 8:00 p.m. in Hamman Hall
No full textAudio quality degrades near the end of the recording.PROGRAM: The blue journey, Kamran Ince -- Gnomic variations, George Crumb -- Sphaera, William Albright -- Fantasy pieces, Alfred Fisher (1942-) -- Chaînes, Akira Miyoshi (1933-2013)
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Kobani: What’s In A Name?
No full textA guest post from Kamran Matin. Kamran is a senior lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, where he teaches modern history of the Middle East and international theory. He is the author of Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change (Routledge, 2013), and recently of ‘Redeeming the Universal: Postcolonialism and the Inner-Life of Eurocentrism’ in the European Journal of International Relations (2013). Kamran is also the incoming co-convenor of the BISA Historical Sociology Working Group, and a management committee member at Sussex’s Centre for Advanced International Theory. He is currently working on a paper on the origins of the current crisis in the Middle East, and a larger project on the international history of the Kurdish national liberation movement.</p
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