Arang keshavarzian biography sample

“Reflections on the Study of Middle East Politics in an Age of Revolution: From Iran’s Greens to Egypt’s Tahrir”

Arang Keshavarzian is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.

He earned his PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University in 2003. Keshavarzian is the author of Bazaar and State in Iran: the Politics of the Tehran Marketplace (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and several articles in edited volumes and journals, including Politics and Society, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Geopolitics, and Middle East Report.

He is currently conducting research on a project examining imperialism and globalization from the vantage point of the Persian Gulf political economic system.

Not unlike journalists and policy-makers, political scientists specializing in the Middle East were surprised by the recent social movements against the political regimes in the Middle