Maziar Behrooz
Maziar Behrooz is a Professor of History who received his PhD in History from University of California, Los Angleles (1993). His areas of expertise include the Middle East, Islamic history, an Iran in the 19th century. He teaches a year long course on the History of the Islamic World, from the 500s to the present, as well as courses on Iran and Afghanistan. He has published articles, chapters and books on the Iranian Left and its role in the Iranian Revolution, as well as the history of Russian-Iranian relations. His first book, Rebels With A Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran, published in 2000, fleshes out Iran's complex revolutionary history. His second book Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia, published in 2023, takes the reader through crucial choices made by Iran's Qajar dynasty in its attempt to unify the nation.
He regularly shares his expertise on current events in Iran and the larger Middle East at public lectures and forums.