Program News & Announcements
Iranian Studies director Abbas Milani with students (left to right) Cameron Ramos, Atussa Mohtasham, and Rachel Roberts
This June, seven Stanford students will graduate with a minor in Iranian Studies. This is the third (and largest) cohort to graduate with the new Stanford Global Studies/Iranian Studies minor. On May 16, five of the students presented…
On May 8, President Trump announced the US would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and reimpose strict sanctions. The future of the JCPOA, negotiated under the Obama administration with the P5+1 and the European Union, remains…
Bahram Beyzaie and cast of "Crossroads" take a bow
Photo credit: Arman Armawn
Professor, playwright, author, and filmmaker Bahram Beyzaie wrote and directed his newest play "Crossroads" at Stanford University in March of this year. The play, sponsored by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies and part…
Professor Abbas Milani, Director of the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, on PBS NewsHour.
Beginning on the night of December 28, demonstrators took to the streets across Iran to protest rising food and fuel prices, corruption, and other economic hardships in the largest wave of demonstrations in the country since 2009…
Are you a Stanford undergraduate interested in learning more about Iranian-American issues and gaining work experience in Washington D.C.? New internship opportunity available through Stanford Global Studies:
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Photo credit: Vahid Zamani
Marjane Satrapi was awarded the tenth annual Bita Prize for Persian Arts on Friday, November 17, 2017 by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies. More than 500 people attended the ceremony celebrating the writer,…
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Abbas Milani: US President Donald Trump’s decision to pursue a more aggressive Iran policy underscores his administration’s misunderstanding of the Iranian regime.…
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By Abbas Milani
A trench war, fought in our labyrinthine digital world, has been raging in the Islamic Republic of Iran for more than two decades. On one side is a youthful internet-savvy society—adept at the gender-…
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Iranian Studies students with Professor Shervin Emami and Professor Abbas Milani
By Alex Shashkevich
When the Iranian Studies program began in the 2005-06 academic year, only two classes were offered. Since then, under the direction of Abbas Milani, the program has…
Hoover Institution archives include posters from the 1979 Iranian Revolution. (Image credit: Hoover Institution Archives)
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By Alex Shashkevich
Stanford has amassed thousands of Persian books, official documents, letters, multimedia pieces and other materials related to Iran’s history, politics and culture.
The collections, held at the Stanford…
The Stanford Iran 2040 Project announces the first annual Moghadam Award in Iranian Economics to recognize the best original paper on Long-Term, Sustainable Economic Development in Iran.
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Bahram Beyzaie
photo by Shawheen Kiani at Stanford
Sharg paper (the most widely read reformist paper in Iran) interviewed professor Bahram Beyzaie last week. Prof. Beyzaie talks about his life at Stanford and the title captures the spirit: "I feel like I'm in Iran; my ideal Iran" Professor…
Acclaimed director Bahram Beyzaie (center), the Bita Daryabari Visiting Professor of Iranian Studies, shares the stage with his actors after a Stanford...
By Alex Shashkevich
"Over the past several years, the Stanford Iranian Studies Program has focused on bringing important Iranian artists to Stanford and building awareness of Iran’s art history and culture through new…
By Alex Shashkevich
"As an undergraduate in the Iranian Studies Program, Anna Polishchuk translated top-secret documents from the Soviet Union as she researched the relationship between Iran’s pro-communist groups and the…