Neda Agha-Soltan Graduate Scholarship at odd with the rest of the world's academic institutions". Eslamain asked for the university's governing board to be informed of "the Iranian views", and finished by saying, "Surely, your steps to achieve your attractions through non-politically supported programmes can better heal the wounds of her family and her nation". There was also a report of a demonstration outside the British Embassy in Tehran against the scholarship. A group of female protesters were said by the Iranian news agency Fars to have chanted "Death to Britain". In response, Madden emphasised that the scholarship was to help Iranian students without adequate
Arash Hejazi known novel "The Princess of the Land of Eternity" was shortlisted for two major Iranian literary prizes and has sold more than 20,000 copies in Iran since its first publication in 2003. He in 2009 he received his MA in Publishing from Oxford Brookes University. His dissertation on censorship in Iran was published in the publishing journal "Logos" in 2011, and his memoir "The Gaze of the Gazelle" about growing up in Iran after the Islamic Revolution was published by Chicago University Press in 2011. He was present at the death of Neda Agha-Soltan during the 2009 Iranian election protests,