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Houchang Chehabi

Former Fellow

    Term

    September 2, 1997 — May 22, 1998

    Professional affiliation

    Professor of International Relations and History Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University

    Wilson Center Projects

    Dual Society in Turkey, Iran, and Algeria

    Full Biography

    Houchang Chehabi has taught at Harvard, Oxford, and UCLA, and has held Alexander von Humboldt and Woodrow Wilson fellowships. He has published two books, Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990) and Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (2006). He has also co-edited Politics, Society, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (1995) and Sultanistic Regimes (1998). Professor Chehabi has written numerous articles, book reviews, and translations.