Arash Azizi

Arash Azizi is a historian of modern Middle East and global history of the twentieth century with a focus on social and political movements and a Ph.D. from NYU. He is the author of The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US and Iran’s Global Ambitions and What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom. His upcoming Counterweights: Iran, Israel and the Battle for the Middle East will be published by Public Affairs. His peer-reviewed articles have been published in Middle Eastern Studies and International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies; he has previously taught at NYU, Clemson University, and Boston University.