Pilgrimage, Protest, and the Preservation of Memory: The Case of the 1977 Safar Uprising in Iraq
Location: WLH 309, 100 Wall St, New Haven, CT In 1977, an attempt to ban the Arbaeen pilgrimage in Iraq transformed a religious procession into a mass anti-government movement. The crackdown that followed—marked by armed confrontation, arrests, executions, and suppression—highlights a critical question: will gatherings for Imam Hussein always be understood, by political authorities, as carrying latent political potential? If […]