Iran ايران

31 March 2025

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Iranian Studies Scholars Against Scholasticide

[NOTE: The following statement has been endorsed by over ninety Iranian studies scholars from
across North America, Europe, and Asia. In light of th..

Artistically and intellectually sophisticated, The Dawn is Too Far contributes to our understanding of the Iranian diaspora without claiming to represent its full range or complexity. The focus on a small circle of Bay Area Iranians leaves out America’s largest Iranian community, which ..

While these pro-Zionist narratives have been developing for many years in the Iranian diaspora, most notably among monarchists, their impact has become even more problematic since October 7, 2023. Despite the dominance of this narrative, there are many Iranian-Americans who do maintain a pro-Pal..

My current research focuses on nineteenth-century architecture in Iran, particularly madrasas and their integration with other spaces like mosques.

Up until now, the history of slavery and the history of Iranian cinema have been considered distinct and largely unrelated subjects. One of the more idiosyncratic aspects of the book is the way in which it manages to address and reconceptualize these two topics..

The direct answer is: the originality of this grassroots movement and, in retrospect, its “anticipatory” character—the fact that some world-historical autonomous movements of more recent times have emerged and sustained themselves through participatory ways wit..

On 8 January 2009, while reading the daily news from local media in Turkey’s Kurdistan, I was astounded by a brief clip from Antep. None of it seemed to make sense. It reported that three days earlier, on 5 January, Turkish security forces in Gaziantep had stop..

The idea for this book originated during the Trump administration's implementation of its maximum pressure sanctions on Iran. In 2019, we launched a comprehensive research project at Johns Hopkins University to deeply investigate the multifaceted impacts of san..