Behrooz Ghamari, Remembering Akbar: Inside the Iranian Revolution. New York: OR Books, 2016.
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
Behrooz Ghamari: (BG):
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi is an associate professor of history and sociology and Director of the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Islam and Dissent in Postrevolutionary Iran (I. B. Tauris, 2008), Remembering Akbar: Inside the Iranian Revolution (OR Books, 2016), and Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment (Minnesota, 2016), and co-editor of The Iranian Revolution Turns 30.