Volume 2, Issue 2 | December 2025 | Persian Gulf Studies
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In recent years heat waves, droughts, sandstorms, toxic pollution, and more have made the lives of people living in and around the Persian Gulf challenging. Ongoing political crises and rising poverty in Iran and Iraq, the populous northern…
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In this conversation, Azam Khatam speaks with Kaveh Ehsani (Associate professor of international studies, DePaul University) and Arang Keshavarzian (Proferssor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University New York University),…
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This interview explores the evolving landscape of Gulf Studies, highlighting the work of a scholar whose research bridges both Iranian Studies and Persian Gulf Studies. This interview with Mehran Kamrava examines his initiatives to open…
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Crude Oil and the Mirage of Development draws on Roya Khoshnevis’s doctoral dissertation, defended in 2021 at the University of Amsterdam, to explore the lived experience of oil as reflected in modern Iranian literature. It provides a fresh…
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The Persian Gulf has always been simpler to conquer than to define; empires found taking possession far easier than explaining precisely what it was they had possessed. No shortage of maps, treaties, and monographs have declared it a…
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