Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
Visiting Scholar
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi is the former Professor and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and Director of Iranian Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment; Remembering Akbar: Inside the Iranian Revolution; and Islam and Dissent in Postrevolutionary Iran. His forthcoming book entitled The Long War on Iran is going to be published by OR Press in October 2025.
Participating Years
2025–2026
Mobility: Transit and Transformation
Crises of mobility have become a key integer of social struggle in the world system. Whether one considers the explosion of different forms of movement or the production of immobility, in carcerality, wagelessness, enclosure, or via the securitization of borders, mobility and its discontents are central to radical activism across local and transnational communities.