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Haleh Esfandiari has directed the Middle East Program at the Wilson Center since 1998. An Iranian-American, she has lived in the United States since 1980. A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation grant, she is an expert on Middle Eastern women’s issues and Iranian affairs. She is the author of Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution and numerous scholarly and current affairs articles. Previously she was the Deputy Secretary General of the Women's Organization of Iran, a fellow at the Wilson Center, a journalist and an educator at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna.
Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University, Shaul Bakhash, specializes in the history of the modern Middle East with a special interest in the history of Iran. He is the author of Iran: Monarchy, Bureaucracy and Reform Under the Qajars, 1858-1896; The Politics of Oil and Revolution in Iran; and Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. He worked for many years as a journalist in Iran writing for Tehran-based Kayhan newspapers as well as the London Times, the Financial Times, and the Economist. His articles have appeared in numerous books and journals and national newspapers, including the Washington Post and the New York Times. A former Guggenheim fellow, Bakhash has also held fellowships at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton and other research centers. He received his B. A. and M. A. from Harvard University and his D. Phil from Oxford University.
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