When asked to devise a reading list on postrevolutionary Iran, it became apparent to Keshavarzian that by “essential” he could neither be comprehensive, nor was he interested in devising some sort of rank ordering of scholarship. Instead, once Keshavarzian began con..
Arang Keshavarzian and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI)
Arang Keshavarzian is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University and author of Bazaar and State in Iran: Politics of the Tehran Marketplace (Cambridge University Press).
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Ziad Abu-Rish, Co-Director
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