Houchang E. Chehabi: "Iran and Iraq: Cultural Ties or Political Rifts?"

Houchang E. Chehabi (Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Iranian History at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland) "Iran and Iraq: Cultural Ties or Political Rifts?" [Co-sponsored by the Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies] Houchang E. Chehabi was educated at the University of Caen, the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, and Yale University, where he received his PhD in political science in 1986. He taught at Harvard University and UCLA before joining the faculty of Boston University as a professor of international relations and history in 1998. He is the author of Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (London: I.B. Tauris, 1990), editor and principal author of Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the last 500 years (Oxford: Centre for Lebanese Studies, 2006), and co-editor, with Juan J. Linz, of Sultanistic Regimes (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) and, with Vanessa Martin, of Iran's Constitutional Revolution: Politics, Cultural Transformations, and Transnational Connections (London: I. B. Tauris, forthcoming). His articles have appeared in Daedalus, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Government and Opposition, the International Journal of the History of Sport, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Iranian Studies and in various edited volumes.