{"id":3829,"date":"2025-09-15T18:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulfif.org\/app\/gss-workshops\/?post_type=directors&p=3829"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:36:49","slug":"dr-mehran-kamrava","status":"publish","type":"directors","link":"https:\/\/gulfif.org\/app\/gss-workshops\/directors\/dr-mehran-kamrava\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehran Kamrava"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mehran Kamrava is Professor of Government at Georgetown University Qatar. Kamrava is the author of a number of journal articles and books, including, most recently, How Islam Rules in Iran: Theology and Theocracy in the Islamic Republic<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2024);\u00a0Righteous Politics: Power and Resilience in Iran<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2023);\u00a0A Dynastic History of Iran: From the Qajars to the Pahlavis<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2022);\u00a0Triumph and Despair: In Search of Iran\u2019s Islamic Republic<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2022);\u00a0<\/em>A Concise History of Revolution<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2020);\u00a0Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Cornell University Press, 2018);\u00a0Inside the Arab State<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2018);\u00a0The Impossibility of Palestine: History, Geography, and the Road Ahead<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Yale University Press, 2016);\u00a0<\/em>Qatar: Small State, Big Politics<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Cornell University Press, 2015);\u00a0The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>3rd ed. (University of California Press, 2013); and\u00a0Iran\u2019s Intellectual Revolution<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2008). His edited books include\u00a0The Sacred Republic: Power and Institutions in Iran<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2023);\u00a0The Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2020);\u00a0The Great Game in West Asia: Iran, Turkey, and the Southern Caucasus<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2017);\u00a0Gateways to the World: Port Cities in the Persian Gulf<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2016);\u00a0Fragile Politics: Weak States in the Greater Middle East<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2016);\u00a0Beyond the Arab Spring: The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2015);\u00a0<\/em>The Political Economy of the Persian Gulf<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2012);\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0The Nuclear Question in the Middle East<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2012); and\u00a0The International Politics of the Persian Gulf<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2011). Kamrava is the Series Editor for the\u00a0Contemporary Issues in the Middle East<\/a>\u00a0series of Syracuse University Press, and the\u00a0Iran from the Pahlavis to the Present<\/a>\u00a0series at Hurst Publishers and Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

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