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Arang Keshavarzian

Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He has just returned from Iran, where he spent the last three weeks following the election campaign and its immediate aftermath. He serves on the Editorial Committee of MERIP, the Middle East Research and Information Project, where he helped edit the Spring 2009 special issue on “The Iranian Revolution at 30.” He is the author of Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace.

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