Dr. Pouya Alimagham on Iranian History, Middle Eastern Politics, and American Imperialism

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Dr. Pouya Alimagham is a historian of the modern Middle East at MIT.   He is the author of Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings.  We talk about the long history of American politics and the making of modern Iran, the making of American policy in the modern middle east, the Islamicate world's encounters with European modernity, and much more. 

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