CONTRIBUTOR

Dr. Pouya Alimagham

Pouya Alimagham is a historian of the modern Middle East. He teaches at Chapman University. Before Chapman, he taught for nearly a decade at MIT, and briefly taught at Boston University as a visiting lecturer. He published his first book, Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings with Cambridge University Press in 2020. His other articles and book chapters cover the Arab Spring, Iranian protest music, women in Middle East revolutions, sectarianism, and the psycho-history of post-9/11 discourse. He completed his undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley, after which he obtained an MA from Harvard University and an MA and PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His interviews can be found on Al Jazeera English, BBC, BBC Persian, and France 24.