Program News & Announcements

  • Announcements

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…

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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…

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  • Students

Behzad Haghgoo graduated from Stanford in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI). After graduation, he started a company with some of his Stanford friends and built collaborative coding…

Ebrahim Golestan 

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We are pleased to announce the arrival of the Ebrahim Golestan Papers to Stanford University's Green Library. We are honored that Mr. Golestan chose to donate his important collection to Stanford—it is…

  • In the News

On November 29, 2023, Stanford Iranian Studies students had the opportunity to ask questions of Iranian-American astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, live from the International Space Station. 

Interview From Outer Space (…

Bita Mousavi

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Bita Mousavi is a PhD candidate in History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. Her dissertation, "The Parasitic State: Nature, Wealth, and the Iranian Nation, 1960-1990" is a history of dissent in Iran. In it, she…

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"I chose to study Iran because I wanted a window into my mother's birthplace. I wanted to understand the language, become acquainted with the literature, and to above all honor my mother's story and her background," shared…

Julia during her travels to Jordan.

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"As an Iranian-American, I wanted to dive deeply into my family's culture and language. Especially as the women of Iran lead a revolution against the regime, I feel that I now have a better grasp of current issues…

Dr. Tomoyo Chisaka

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Tomoyo Chisaka joins the Iranian Studies Program as the second Zahedi Family Fellow in spring of 2023. Dr. Chisaka is a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo, Japan. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Abbasi Program in…

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Palo Alto, California. On March 25-26, 2023, the Conference, entitled “Dialogues on Transition to Secular Democracy”, is co-organized by the Gozar.org independent expert collective, KAI, and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian…

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Never Invisible: An Iranian Woman’s Life Across the Twentieth Century is a new publication from Mage Publishers. 

In 2021, Houri Mostofi Moghadam’s archival collection was generously donated to Stanford…

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Explore highlights from the 2021-2022 academic year. The wane of COVID brought a welcome return to in-person teaching and the program's ability to host several live events throughout the year. We hosted film screenings, a concert, lectures, book…

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Dr. Kioumars Ghereghlou joined Stanford in September 2021 as the new Middle East Collections Curator at Stanford Libraries. In this interview, Dr. Ghereghlou gives an account of his role in collecting and managing library…

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  • In the News

The leadership and staff of the Stanford Program in Iranian Studies condemn the ongoing violence the Iranian regime is utilizing to silence dissent. We support the Iranians who demand justice for the death of Mahsa Amini and are calling for basic…

  • In the News

Professor Bahram Beyzaie, the internationally acclaimed playwright, director and an accomplished poet, has written a stirring poem in praise of the on-going situation in Iran—led by women and triggered by the…