Sparking a Revolution: Visual Propaganda, the Mass Protests against the Belgian Joseph Naus, and the Beginnings of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
The talk will focus on a key event of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution: the protests against Joseph Naus, the Belgian head of customs and taxation in Iran, who was also a minister at the Qajar court. Naus’s reforms had made him and his European and Armenian employees deeply unpopular and from 1903 on demonstrations against […]