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 most recent book is The Long War on Iran: New Events, Old Questions.


Collected Work


The Long War on Iran: New Events, Old Questions

Drawing on two decades of political analysis, Ghamari explore the history of US intervention in the Middle East, focusing on the enduring sanctions imposed on Iran and the persistent perception of the Islamic Republic as a major obstacle to American power. Despite the repressive policies of the state, Iran has remained a vibrant society with active intellectual, cultural, and social justice movements. The book examines these internal changes and shifts in Iranian politics. At a critical moment when US policy is being reshaped, The Long War on Iran is a timely reminder that, if the US fails to acknowledge Iran’s transformations, both nations will continue to face new events―and the same old questions.




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.