Gholam Reza Afkhami is an Iranian-born American scholar, author, educator, and a former

Pahlavi Iran The Imperial State of Iran ( fa, کشور شاهنشاهی ایران, ), also known as the Imperial State of Persia, was the official name of the Iranian state under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty. It was formed in 1925 and lasted until 197 ...

government official. He is the senior scholar and director of Social Science Research and International Studies at the Foundation for Iranian Studies. The Foundation for Iranian Studies is a Bethesda,

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-based research institution dedicated to the study of Iranian history, culture, economy and politics, created with the financial support from Princess

Ashraf Pahlavi Ashraf ol-Molouk Pahlavi ( fa, اشرف‌الملوک پهلوی, , 26 October 1919 – 7 January 2016) was the twin sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran (Persia), and a member of the Pahlavi dynasty. She was considered the "pow ...

Biography

Before the

Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynas ...

, he was secretary general of Iran's National Committee for World Literacy Program (1975–1979), headed by Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, and was the Deputy Minister of Interior (1974–1975). Between 1967 and 1979 he was professor of politics and until 1974 associate dean of the College of Economics and Political Science at the National University of Iran. He was formerly a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution on Revolution, War and Peace at

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(1980 to 1983), where he studied issues of

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in the "Third World", he lectured on conflict and concord in the U.S. relations with the countries of the Middle East, and he prepared a text on the

. He is also the father of

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player Ehsan Afkhami.

Publications

Afkhami is author of several books and articles in Persian and English. Afkhami's book ''The Life and Times of the Shah'' (

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; winter 2008), is a detailed history of

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , title = Shahanshah Aryamehr Bozorg Arteshtaran , image = File:Shah_fullsize.jpg , caption = Shah in 1973 , succession = Shah of Iran , reign = 16 September 1941 – 11 February 1979 , coronation = 26 October ...

, the Shah of Iran 1941 to 1979, which is set against the political, economic, social, and cultural dynamics of the country and the world in which he lived and worked.

English

* The Iranian Revolution: Thanatos on a National Scale (1985) * The Nature of the Pahlavi Monarchy in Iran, in Peter Chelkowski and Robert Pranger, Eds. * Power and Conflict in the Middle East (1987) * The Oral History Collection of the Foundation for Iranian Studies, co-edited with Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr (1991), among others. *

Persian

* A Series in Iran's Economic and Social Development, 1941–1978 ** Khuzistan's Development (1995) ** Iran's Atomic Energy Program (1997) ** The Evolution of Iran's Oil Policy (1998) ** Ideology, Process and Politics in Iran's Development Planning (1999) ** The Evolution of Iran's Gas Industry (1999) ** The Evolution of Iran's Petrochemical Industry (2001) ** Ideology, Politics and Process in Iran's Economic Development, 1960-1970 (2001) ** Women, State, and Society in Iran, 2 vols. (2002, 2003)

References

External links

Foundation for Iranian Studies
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