Modern Iranian Identity & Morals | Shervin Vakili | TEDxTUMS

These days one of the main questions of our debate is "who I am?". In this controversial talk, Sherwin vakili argues this generation`s main obsession and introduces some ways to be a perfect "Parsi man".

Born in 1974, and raised in an intellectual family. He Received his MS in Physiology and his PhD degree in Sociology from Allameh Tabatabaei University; Lecturer, University of Tehran. His thesis was known as the Iranian’s best research of the year 2004 in the realm of humanities by the National Administration of Culture and Science. He started a non-formal sciencephilosophy circle called the club of knowledge, in 1992, which was continued for 4 years, and then ended up in a cluster of cultural groups. These groups united again in the year 2000, to become Kanoon Khorshid (the Center of the Sun) NGO.

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