Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: 415-338-1776
Fax: 415-338-7539
Department of History
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco
CA
94132
United States
ABOUT
Maziar Behrooz was born in Tehran-Iran. He received his B.A degree in History-Government from Saint Mary College of California (1982), his M.A. in Modern History of Europe from San Francisco State University (1986), and his Ph.D. in Modern History of the Near East from University of California, Los Angeles (1993). He has taught at a number of universties and colleges including UC Berkeley, Saint Mary's College of California, Stanford University, BridgewaterState College and is currently an associate professor at the History Department of San Francisco State University. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on Iran and is the author of two books on the history of the left movement in Iran. His first book is Rebels with a Cause (1999), which has been translated into Persian (2001) and Turkish (2006). His second book is Perspectives on the History of Rebels with a Cause in Iran (2006) which is a collection of articles and interviews on the left movement in Iran, translated and published in Iran and in Persian. His current research project is about late 18th century-early 19th century encounters between Iran and the Western world.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Colonialism
Iranian Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Afghanistan
All Middle East
Caucasus
Iran
Iraq
Specialties
Hist Of Mod Iran
Hist Of The Iranian Communist Mvmt
Iran 19th -21st C
Iran-Soviet Rltns
Left In The ME
Rel Revivalism
Languages
Azeri (elementary)
Persian (native)
Tajik (native)
Education
Abstracts
Conflict in the Caucasus: A Military Perspective on Russo-Iranian Wars
Iranian Left and the “Liberal” Bazargan Government: Poor Choices and Lost Chances
Iran at War: An Examination of the Military Aspect of the Second Russo-Iranian War
Hamid Ashraf: Iran’s Leading tactician of Guerrilla Warfare
