Languages
Farhang Jahapour
Professor Farhang Jahanpour is a British national of Iranian origin. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Oriental Studies from the University of Cambridge and is a former professor and dean of the Faculty of Languages at the University of Isfahan. He has taught at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, as well as teaching online courses for Oxford, Yale and Stanford.
Farhang spent a year as a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at Harvard, where he taught courses on comparative literature. He…
Professor Farhang Jahanpour is a British national of Iranian origin. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Oriental Studies from the University of Cambridge and is a former professor and dean of the Faculty of Languages at the University of Isfahan. He has taught at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, as well as teaching online courses for Oxford, Yale and Stanford.
Farhang spent a year as a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at Harvard, where he taught courses on comparative literature. He spent many years as Editor for Middle East and North Africa at the BBC Monitoring Service. He has lectured widely both in Europe and the United States, including at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Wilton Park, Temenos Academy, the Royal Asiatic Society and various annual conferences of the British Institute for Middle Eastern Studies.
In 2003 Farhang was the guest speaker at the New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas and also lectured on the Middle East peace process at Yale University. He has been a guest speaker on "Relations between the West and the Middle East" on five Queen Mary 2 voyages as a part of Oxford University Discovery Programme. In March 2006 he lectured at the International Hotel Investment Forum Conference in Berlin to some 1,350 delegates on "The Clash of Civilisations".
Professor Jahanpour has also interpreted at a number of important international organisations and high level visits of foreign heads of states and dignitaries, including for Her Majesty the Queen, Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Jack Straw and most cabinet ministers, as well as for over forty US, European, Chinese, Indian, Russian and Iranian foreign ministers.
He is the author of three books and numerous articles in academic journals. His main areas of interest are international relations, Middle East politics, comparative religion, religion and politics and Islam and the West. He has been a part-time tutor at the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, for more than twenty years, and is a member of Kellogg College, Oxford.
