The history and historiography of Iranian socialism and communism are myriad, plurivocal, and inevitably contentious. Like almost all national histories of socialism, they abound in emancipatory horizons, tales of unstinting bravery, and the unflappable conviction that things might have been oth..
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI)
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Comparative Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. He was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he also obtained his doctorate. He has published widely on Iranian political thought and current affairs and is a co-editor of Jadaliyya’s Iran Page, as well as series editor of Radical Histories of the Middle East (Oneworld).