Ramin Jahanbegloo was born in Tehran and studied at the Sorbonne University, Paris. He is currently professor at the University of Toronto. He was previously Rajni Kothari professor of democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi. He has been a post-doc at Harvard University, and then headed the department for contemporary studies at the Cultural Research Bureau, Iran. Among his twenty books in English, French and Persian are Conversations with Isaiah Berlin (Phoenix, 2000), (as editor) Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity (Lexington Books, 2004), and The Spirit of India (Penguin, 2008)

Recent articles

The refusal to participate in the Beijing Olympics in protest at China's repressive policies in Tibet is an ethical imperative, says Ramin Jahanbegloo.

Dialogue, global citizenship, autonomy, non-violence, political freedom - in embodying these ideas in his life and activism, Mahatma Gandhi is a thinker of this century as well as his own, says Ramin Jahanbegloo.

The late American philosopher made a matchless contribution to democratic dialogue across cultures in an era of global diversity, says his colleague Ramin Jahanbegloo.

Can the “American dream” belong also to the world? In the sixth of our Letters to Americans series, the Iranian scholar Ramin Jahanbegloo, who teaches at the Cultural Research Bureau in Tehran, and the philosopher Richard Rorty of Stanford University discuss the future of America’s national story.

Originally published on 30-08-2004

Iran’s people have elected religious hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by a large margin over ex-president Hashemi Rafsanjani. Whose victory is it, whose defeat? Iranian democrats assess their new predicament, and discuss what to do now.