Iran 1400 Podcast

In this episode, Sydney Martin interviews Dr. Eric Lob about his recent article for the Iran 1400 Project “Institutional Continuities and Changes in the Islamic Republic of Iran: The Case of Construction Jihad.” Using Construction Jihad as their focal point, they discuss a wide range of events and ideas, such as development, the Islamic Republican Party, the Iran-Iraq War, and the consolidation of...

What will happen after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's passing? During this event hosted by the Iran 1400 Project, Ali Alfoneh, an author and political scientist, answered this question and presented his book “Political Succession in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Demise of the Clergy and the Rise of the Revolutionary Guard Corps”. His book imagines what leadership will look like in...

On November 19th the Iran 1400 Project hosted a Spotlighting an Author event with distinguished social historian, Stephanie Cronin of Oxford University. Dr. Cronin discussed her newly-released book, Social Histories of Iran: Modernism and Marginality in the Middle East, which problematizes concepts of modernity in Iran and the broader Middle East with a global comparative perspective. The book inv...

In this Spotlighting an Author event, Dr. Fatemeh Shams discussed her latest book “A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic”. During the extensive Q&A section of the event, Shams answered a series of questions with topics from lack of academic attention to Persian poetry, to the cause and result relationship between the revolution and poetry in Iran. About Fatemeh Sha...

In this Spotlighting an Author event, Dr. Annie Tracy Samuel discussed the IRGC’s roles and power in contemporary Iran and demonstrates how the history of the Iran–Iraq War has an immense bearing on the Islamic Republic’s present and future. During the extensive Q&A section of the event, Tracy Samuel answered a series of questions with topics from the most important lessons learned by the IRGC...

This episode is the audio version of the Spotlighting an Author event with John Ghazvinian who presented his new book "America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present". Ghazvinian provided a captivating account of the U.S.-Iran relationship within the last 300 years and discussed the history that is rarely explored, from Christian missionaries in Iran, to the American fascination with Persia in t...

This episode is an audio version of an event in which Dr. Ervand Abrahamian, a renowned historian discussed his latest book "Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup D'Etat". Abrahamian provided analysis on recently declassified CIA and US State Department documents from the Mossadeq administration. He told the story of the Iranian oil crisis, which would eventually culminate in the coup of Au...

In the first episode, Christian and Sydney summarize the main points discussed in a previous Iran 1400 Project event in Farsi about the women's movement in Iran. They review the analyses of four panelists: Homa Hoodfar, Mahboobeh Abasghlizadeh, Mehrangiz Kar, and Aram Hessami as they examine the complex history of women's rights in the past century in Iran. Website: https://iran1400.org/en/ h...