Welcome to the Iranian History Initiative at LSE. The Iranian History Initiative (IHI) was established in 2024 to promote the study of modern Iranian history at LSE. The IHI brings together faculty ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. The Cambridge History of Iran is an eight-volume survey of Iranian history and ...

Exploring over two hundred years of political history, Kamrava's comprehensive yet concise account places developments within relevant frameworks in an accessible manner. With detailed examinations of ...

An expansive essay on the history of Iran through the first great global age, illustrating periods of economic and political might and as well as periods of weakness and disjunction. Through centuries ...

when Hamas perpetrated the deadliest attack on Israel in its history. The incursion immediately raised questions about whether Iran was involved, some of which remain unresolved. Supreme Leader ...

Scholars debate the dates and geography of Zoroaster’s life, but his religion was practiced at the time of the earliest historically attested Iranian dynasties, the Medes and the Persians. Media lay ...

Iran’s pursuit of nuclear technology began in the early 1970s, fuelled by oil wealth and the Shah of Iran’s vision for ...

When an Israeli bomb killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbullah, last week, it did not just decapitate a fearsome ...

This title is part of a longer publication history. The full run of this journal will be searched. TITLE HISTORY A title history is the publication history of a journal and includes a listing of the ...

Each year the Iranian History Initiative invites a world-leading historian of modern Iran to deliver the Gholam Reza Nikpay Annual Lecture at LSE. This annual lecture was established in 2023 to honour ...

(JTA) — A film being billed as the first co-production by Israeli and Iranian filmmakers debuted at the Venice International Film Festival after a secretive production process that included a ...

The Shah of Iran threw a huge three-day party in 1971 ... Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that ...