Arang Keshavarzian

Arang Keshavarzian is associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He is the author of Bazaar and State in Iran as well as several essays in academic journals and edited volumes on such topics as ulama-state relations, political economy of commerce and urbanism, as well as factionalism and contestation in postrevolutionary Iran. His most recent publication is a 2021 co-edited volume by Cambridge University Press titled Global 1979: Geographies and Histories of the Iranian Revolution, which he co-edited with Ali Mirsepassi. Keshavarzian is currently completing a book on region-making and the Persian Gulf in the past two centuries. He has been on the editorial committee for MERIP or Middle East Report at various junctures in the past two decades.