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Ervand Abrahamian

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Research Interests

  • Middle East and Iran

Education

  • Ph.D., Columbia University

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Affiliated Campus(es)

  • Baruch College

Selected Publications:

  • A History of Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
  • Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth About North Korea, Iran, and Syria (Co-Authored, The New Press, 2004).
  • Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (University of California Press, 1999).
  • Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic (University of California Press, 1993).
  • The Iranian Mojahedin (Yale University Press, 1984).
  • Iran Between Two Revolutions (Princeton, 1982).

Articles, Reviews, Essays:

  • "Public Confessions in Iran," in Rules and Rights in the Middle East (Edited by E. Goldberg, R. Kasaba, and J. Migdal) (University of Washington, 1993).

  • Articles for the Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, and Encyclopedia Iranica.

  • "Ali Shariati: Ideologue of the Iranian Revolution," in Social Movements in the Middle East (Edited by E. Burk and  I. Lapidus) (University of California Press, 1993).

Works in Progress:

  • The 1953 Coup in Iran (New Press)

Other Activities:

  • Manuscript evaluator for University of California Press; Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; SUNY Press; Syracuse Press; and Yale University Press
  • Fullbright Selection Committee (1990-1993)

Series Editor/Edit Oral Boards:

  • The Journal for Iranian Studies

Ervand Abrahamian - Distinguished Professor - profile photo

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Affiliated Campus(es)

  • Baruch College

Books

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The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations

by Ervand Abrahamian Distinguished Professor, History, Distinguished Professor, Middle Eastern Studies

Abrahamian has written a new and revealing history of the August 1953 CIA-orchestrated overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader and its consequences. When the 1979 Iranian Revolution deposed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and replaced his puppet government with a radical Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the shift reverberated throughout the Middle East and the world. Drawing from the hitherto closed archives of British Petroleum, the Foreign Office, and the U.S. State Department, as well as from Iranian memoirs and published interviews, the author uncovers little-known documents that challenge conventional interpretations, and sheds new light on how the American role in the coup influenced U.S.-Iranian relations, both past and present. 

Published February 2013
The New Press, 2013

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A History of Modern Iran

A History of Modern Iran

by Ervand Abrahamian Distinguished Professor, History, Distinguished Professor, Middle Eastern Studies

In this portrait of a twentieth-century nation, Iran emerges as the product of oil and monarchs, intermittent warfare, outright revolution, and the formation, under clerical direction, of the Islamic Republic. Both regional and international in focus, Abrahamian's study revisits such topics as 'royal despots,' democratic reform, Shiism, Muhammad Reza Shah, and class conflict. 

Published July 2008
Cambridge University Press, 2008

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