Arash Azizi

Arash Azizi is a historian of modern Middle East and global history of the 20th century with a focus on social and political movements and a PhD from NYU. He is the author of Shadow Commander: US, Soleimani and Iran's Global Ambitions and What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom. His upcoming Counterweights: Iran, Israel and the Battle for the Middle East will be published by Public Affairs. His peer-reviewed articles have been published in Middle Eastern Studies and International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and he has previously taught at NYU, Clemson University and Boston University.

A. Books

1. What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom. London: Oneworld, 2024.
2. The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the U.S., and Iran’s Global Ambitions. London: Oneworld, 2020.

 

B. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. “Iranian Communists and the Palestine Question (1947-1956).” Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 61, Issue 4, 2025.

 

C. Peer-Reviewed Roundtable Contribution

1. “Communism, Cold War and the 1953 Coup”. Roundtable on the 70^th anniversary of the 1953 coup. International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 2024;56(2):295-299

 

D. Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

1. “Internationalist Patriotism: Iranian and Iraqi Communists and the Iran-Iraq War” In The Anthology of the Iranian Perspective on the Iran-Iraq War. Edited by Mateo Farzaneh. 2025.
2. “’Si Ganan Los Republicanos’: Irán y la Guerra civil espańola.” In España Y el Mundo Iranio: Relaciones y representaciones políticas y culturales. Edited by Fernando Camacho Padilla, Fernando Escribano Martin and Raffaele Mauriello. 2025.
3. “Iranians and the Vietnam War: Cold Warrior Enmities or Anti-Colonial Solidarities?” In Iran and Global Decolonization. Edited by Firouzeh Kashani-Sabet and Rob Steele. London: Gingko library’s Iran Series, 2023.

Cold War history, Global history, History of the Left, Jewish history, Middle Eastern political organizations, transnational activism, Iran and the Second World War

Lecturer and Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University