The Iranian Studies Initiative at NYU (ISI-NYU) provides an intellectual and academic space for NYU faculty members and graduate students to study Iranian history, culture and society. Supported by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, ISI-NYU draws on faculty members from departments and centers across the University. Directed by Professor Ali Mirsepassi, ISI-NYU includes a translation service, a lecture series, lunch discussions and other public events, from art exhibitions to film screenings. ISI-NYU reaches out to academics at Columbia University, City University, the New School and Princeton University as well as the rich intellectual and artistic Iranian Diaspora community in New York City in pursuit of its mission to create a central place for the study of Iran.
The New US Documents on Iran / a Lecture by Ervand Abrahamian, City University of New York
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Synopsis: The State Department has recently released 375 documents (totaling near 1000 pages) on the Mossadeq period (1951-53) in its annual series entitled 'Foreign Relations of the United States' (FRUS) - after a thirty-three year delay beyond the normal thirty-year rule for releasing government documents. The talk will analyze why these documents were deemed too sensitive to publish earlier as well as explore what new they tell us about US-Iran relations and internal Iranian politics.
Ervand Abrahamian is Distinguished Professor of Iranian and Middle Eastern history and politics at Baruch College, CUNY. His book publications include: Iran Between Two Revolutions (Princeton University Press); The Iranian Mujahedin (Yale University Press); Khomeinism (University of California Press); Tortured Confessions (University of California Press); A History of Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press); and The Coup: 1953, The CIA, and the Roots of Modern US-Iran Relations (New Press).