Shahram Kholdi

I am a history animal and an animal of history.

My career and education include:

- a full four-year law degree from the Azad Islamic University of Tehran (1993),

- working as a researcher for the Planning and Budget Organization of the State with Dr. Hadi Esmailezadeh at the organization's legal department headed by Mr. Alizadeh Tababayi for six months,

- finishing conscription (mandatory),

- working in the private sector (as an editorial assistant in Farzanrooz publication and a resident legal councillor in Ghazvin Glass Manufacturing Corporation).

A BA and an MA in Political Science from the University of Toronto are just the most recent additions to my unending pursuits in political and historical studies.

Though my Iranian politics background is much stronger because of my earlier education, I devoted a majority of my graduate studies to Canadian Politics.

In December 2003, I attended an intensive course on the Arab-Israeli Conflict at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, as part of a joint programme between the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Toronto. I examined rational choice theory in the Iran-Iraq War as part of my research project for this course.

I worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Toronto at Scarborough in Canadian Politics in the Spring of 2004. I was responsible for about a hundred students in three consecutive tutorials.

Different projects, from multiculturalism in Canadan, Iranian Constitutional History since 1906, comparative Middle Eastern Constitutionalism, Civil Society and Reform in Iran, to Iran's Islamic Revolution and the Islamic Republic's history would outline just a good deal of my present research activities.

Currently, I am a Graduate Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate at the University of Manchester.

By Secular Canuck-Iranic, I attempt to summarize how I perceive myself: a secular person who has been an Iranian-Canadian for some time.

Through my logo, I couple one of Iran's oldest national symbols (the lion and the sun) with the Canadian maple leaf (which is the national symbol of Canada) to visualize and symbolize my preception of my identity.

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