“The portrayal that Hollywood has been putting out for a long time is that Iran is not just a place of bad leaders or regimes but a nation of terrorists, radicals and bad guys — that this is the entire culture,” said Hooshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian American professor at Rutgers University and the founder of the think tank the American Iranian Council, which aims to foster understanding between the countries. “That’s poisoned how a lot of Americans think about Iran, especially people who are too young to remember it before the revolution.”
MCRP Ian Murphy Receives APTA’s William Millar Scholarship
Ian Murphy, a second-year Master of City and Regional Planning student, is the recipient of the American Public Transportation Foundation’s William Millar Scholarship. This distinguished scholarship is granted to college students and transit professionals dedicated to...