Chehabi Gives Talk at Harvard on the Iranian Revolution
Houchang E. Chehabi, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, gave a September 5, 2019 talk looking back on the Iranian Revolution 40 years later, and examining whether it was an indicator of an age of populism.
Chehabi’s talk, entitled “The Iranian Revolution at 40: Precursor to an Age of Populism?” was hosted by the Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard University and co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
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.