Chehabi Interviewed on Travel Ban and Foreign Students
Houchang E. Chehabi, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was recently interviewed on the effect President Donald Trump’s executive order banning citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States for 90 days will have on foreign students in Massachusetts.
Chehabi was quoted in a February 10, 2017 article in the Boston Globe entitled “Mass. Is a Magnet For Foreign Students, But They’re Anxious About Trump.”
From the text of the article:
Houchang E. Chehabi, an Iranian-born professor at Boston University who came to the United States in the 1970s to get a doctorate in political science at Yale, took a more pessimistic view. He predicted fewer Iranians will come to this country if they sense Trump may take further steps to clamp down on them and others from majority Muslim countries.
“There’s just a general sense of being singled out, which is all the more painful in that we’ve done so well in this country,” Chehabi said.
You can read the entire article here.
Houchang Chehabi has taught at Harvard and has been a visiting professor at the University of St. Andrews, UCLA, and the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa. He has published two books, Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990) and Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (2006). Chehabi has written numerous articles, book reviews, and translations. You can read more about him here.