Arang keshavarzian biography books

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

Arang Keshavarzian writes a new history of the region that places Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Peninsula together within global processes.

The book tries to understand what it means for the Persian Gulf to be a region and how the multiple conceptions and social processes of region-making reflect.

The Tehran Bazaar has always been central to the Iranian economy and indeed, to the Iranian urban experience. Arang Keshavarzian's fascinating book compares the economics and politics of the marketplace under the Pahlavis, who sought to undermine it in the drive for modernisation and under the subsequent revolutionary regime, which came to power with a mandate to preserve the bazaar as an.

Arang Keshavarzian writes a new history of the region that places Iran, Iraq, and the Arabian Peninsula together within global processes.

The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space—an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those who live there and those beyond its shore. Making Space for the Gulf reveals how capitalism, empire-building, geopolitics, and urbanism have each shaped.