About Houchang Chehabi
Born 1950. Houchang Chehabi is an Iranian historian, iranologist and university teacher.
Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi (born 1950) is a scholar of Iranian studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University where he is Professor of International Relations and History.
Chehabi is Iranian-German and was born in Tehran, Iran. He is a former Harvard faculty member, as well as UCLA. He received his MA and DPhil from Yale University.
His publications focus on Iran and its history and politics. His books include 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).
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Who is Houchang Chehabi?
American historian
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Houchang Chehabi was born in 1950 in Tehran.
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Houchang Chehabi is a historian, iranologist and university teacher.
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Houchang Chehabi is Iranian.
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