Program News & Announcements

Ehssan Hanif joins the Stanford Iranian Studies Program and the Hoover Institution Library and Archives as the Spring 2025 Zahedi Family Fellow. 

Ehssan Hanif is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Architecture and Urban Development at…

In celebration of Norooz/Nowruz (Persian New Year), the recordings of Bahram Beyzaie's historic play Jana and Baladoor is now available to stream via the Stanford Iranian Studies YouTube channel. The play was sponsored by the Stanford Iranian…

Explore highlights from the 2023-2024 academic year. This year featured a diverse range of in-person courses, gatherings, and events at Stanford, bringing together distinguished scholars, social justice activists, influential artists, and a…

Prominent Iranian historian Homa Nategh's archive was recently donated to Stanford's Green Library.  The Homa Nategh Collection contains hundreds of documents, research files, and manuscripts from Dr. Nategh.

Homa Nategh was an eminent…

This is an English translation of the original article published in Persian on Aasoo.  This translation was autogenerated by ChatGPT and may include minor errors. 

"A while ago, I wrote an article about Reza…

Matin Mirramezani is graduating this summer with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a minor in global studies, with a specialization in Iranian studies. 

Reflecting on his time at Stanford and what he is most proud of accomplishing,…

"Mitra Hejazipour, an Iranian-French woman grandmaster in chess, visited Stanford in May as a guest of the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies in the School of Humanities and Sciences. Hejazipour…

Anita Taft is graduating this year with a bachelor’s degree in human biology with honors and a concentration in reproductive medicine, justice, and ethics, and a minor in global studies, with a specialization in Iranian…

Ariana Kalili is graduating this year with a bachelor’s in biomedical computation and a minor in global studies, with a specialization in Iranian studies.

As she reflects on the last four years, she is most proud of the…

Ria Reddy is graduating this year with a B.A. in international relations, with specializations in international security and the Middle East and Central Asia, and a minor in global studies, with a specialization in Iranian…

Sasha Ronaghi is graduating from Stanford with a B.S. in computer science and a minor in global studies, with a specialization in Iranian studies.

“I chose Iranian studies because I wanted to learn the intellectual side…

We are pleased to announce a new annual lecture titled the "Christine Mona Khademi Lecture" has been made possible through a generous gift from Monib Khademi, MBA '90, to the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies at Stanford…

Hussein Banai is an Associate Professor of International Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he is also faculty affiliate in the departments of Political…

We are pleased to announce the donation of the Ehsan and Latifeh Yarshater papers to Stanford University's Green Library. A doyen of Iranian Studies and Iranology, Ehsan Yarshater (1920- 2018) was born in Hamadan, Iran, and studied Persian…

Explore highlights from the 2022-2023 academic year. Since its founding, the mission of the Program in Iranian Studies has been to undertake rigorous scholarship on modern Iran, to support the free exchange of ideas, and to help shine a light on…