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Monographs
- The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, forthcoming [Fall 2017]).
- Who Is Knowledgeable, Is Strong: Science, Class, and the Formation of Modern Iranian Society, 1900-1950 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009).
Edited volumes
- The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates (London: Routledge, 2015), co-edited with Andrew Arsan.
- A Global Middle East: Mobility, Materiality and Culture in the Modern Age, 1880-1940 (London: Tauris, 2014), co-edited with Liat Kozma and Avner Wishnitzer.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Commissioned and in preparation
- “Studying interwar transnationality from the perspective of the Middle East,” part of a special issue of Relations Internationales.
- “The Expanding Overlap of Imperial, International and Transnational Political Activities, 1920s-1930s: a Belgian Case Study,” part of a special issue of International Politics.
Published
- “The Inter-war Germination of Development and Modernization Theory and Practice: Politics, Institution Building, and Knowledge Production between the Rockefeller Foundation and the American University of Beirut,” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 41 (2015): 649–684.
- “Three questions for historians of science in the modern Middle East and North Africa,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 47:3 (2015): 588-591, a contribution to an International Journal of Middle East Studies Roundtable on the History of Science.
- “Ha-yishuv ke-helek mi-Suria ha-gdola be-tkufat ha-milhama,” [The Yishuv as Part of Greater Syria in the War] Zmanim 126 (2014): 8-15 [in Hebrew].
- “Small Is Beautiful,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 46 (2014): 373-375, a contribution to an International Journal of Middle East Studies Roundtable on Social History.
- “1958 Reconsidered. State Formation and Cold War in the Early Post-Colonial Arab Middle East,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 41 (2013): 421-43.
- “Iran’s Karaj Dam Affair: Emerging Mass Consumerism, the Politics of Promise and the Cold War in the Early Post-war Third World,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 54:3 (2012): 612-43.
- “‘Who’s Who in Syria?’ A Note on a Historical Source from the Mid-Twentieth Century,” Critique 20:2 (2011): 219-24.
- “The Many Worlds of Abud Yasin, or: What Narcotics Trafficking in the Interwar Middle East Can Tell Us about Territorialization,” American Historical Review 116:2 (2011): 273-306.
- “‘Seeing Like a State’. An Essay on the Historiography of Modern Iran,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (2010): 37-61.
- “A Reply to Nikki Keddie,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (2010): 544-45.
- “‘Recent Trends in the Historiography of Iran under the Pahlavi Dynasty (1921-1979)”, History Compass 6:6 (2008): 1400-1406.
- “The Social Relevance of Knowledge: Science and the Formation of Modern Iran, 1910-1940s” Middle Eastern Studies 43:6 (2007): 941-60.
- “The Development of Social Insurance in Iran: Technical-Financial Conditions and Political Rationales, 1941-1960”, Iranian Studies 39:4 (2006): 540-68.
- “Criminal-Women and Mother-Women. Socio-Cultural Transformations and the Critique of Criminality in Early Post-World War Two Iran”, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 2:3 (2006): 1-21.
- “Serial Murder in Tehran: Crime, Science, and the Formation of Modern State and Society in Interwar Iran”, Journal for Comparative Studies in Society and History 47:4 (2005): 836-62.
- “‘Aql-i Salīm dar Jism-i Sālim Ast: Texts and Contexts in the Iranian Modernists’ Scientific Discourse of Health, 1910s-1940s”, International Journal of Middle East Studies 37:2 (2005): 167-88.
- “Hygiene, Eugenics, Genetics, and the Perception of Demographic Crisis in Iran, 1910s-1940s”, Critique: Journal for Critical Studies of the Middle East 13:3 (2004): 335-61.
- “Orientalism Enters the Cold War: The New York Times’ Coverage of Iran under Mosaddeq”, JUSUR: The UCLA Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 20 (Fall 2004).
- “Sport, Health, and the Iranian Modern Middle Class, 1920s and 1930s”, Iranian Studies 35:4 (2002): 1-30.
- “Modern Science and the Formation of the Iranian Modern Middle Class, 1910s-1930s” ISIM 9 (2002).
Chapters in edited volumes and encyclopedia entries
Commissioned and in preparation
- “Postwar Societies (Middle East),” in 1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
- “The Empire Strikes Back: Iran in the Global 1970s,” in Global Iran, ed. Roham Alvandi (press tba).
- “Concluding remarks,” in Mandates and Minorities, ed. Heleen Murre-van den Berg (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming (fall 2017).
- “Middle Eastern Reflections on the Interplay between Intra-imperial, Trans-Imperial, and Transnational Dimensions of Developmentalism, 1880s-1960s,” in Global Development, ed. Erez Manela (forthcoming, 2017)
Published
- “The Man in the Middle: Developmentalism and Cold War at AUB’s Economic Research Institute in-between the U.S. and the Middle East, 1952-1967,” in 150 years AUB. Commemorative Volume, ed. Nadia El Cheikh and Bilal Orfali (Beirut: AUB Press, 2016), 105-119.
- “Concluding Remarks: Writing AUB History in a Global Age,” co-authored with Aleksandra Kobiljski, in 150 years AUB, 329-336.
- “The Mandates and/as Decolonization,” in Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates, ed. Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan (London: Routledge, 2015), 412-419.
- “Introduction,” co-authored with Andrew Arsan, in Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates, 1-24.
- “Introduction to Part 2” and “Introduction to Part 3”, in The Routledge History of the Middle East Mandates.
- “Introduction,” co-authored with Liat Kozma and Avner Wishnitzer, in A Global Middle East (London: Tauris, 2014), 1-15.
- “On Scales and Spaces: Reading Gottlieb Schumacher’s The Jaulân (1888),” in A Global Middle East, 19-54.
- “A History of Eugenics in Iran,” in Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 449-61.
- “The Population as a National Resource: an Iranian Press Article, 1937”, in Camron Amin et.al. (eds.): The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook for History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 623-26.
- “Crime and Society in Iran: Press and Court Transcripts, 1934”, in Camron Amin et.al. (eds.): The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook for History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 62-64.
Submissions to Academic E-Websites
Book reviews
- Orkideh Behrouzan, Prozak Diaries. Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016), in IJMES
- Julia A. Clancy-Smith, Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900 (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2011), Mediterranean Historical Review 28:1 (2013): 72-75.
- Hillel Cohen, Good Arabs. The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 44:2 (2012): 368-70.
- Marjam Ardalan, Der Iran im Spiegel deutschsprachiger Reiseberichte im 19. Jahrhundert (Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2003), Iranian Studies 44:1 (2011), 432-33.
- Roman Siebertz, Die Briefmarken Irans als Mittel der politischen Propaganda (Wien: Verlag der oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2005), Iranian Studies 43:3 (2010): 582-84.
- Daniela Meier, Helvetias guter Draht zum Pfauenthron. Die Beziehungen der Schweiz zu Iran (1946-1978) (Zürich: Orell Füssli Verlag, 2002), Iranian Studies 43:3 (2010): 426-28.
- Stephen C. Poulson, Social Movements in Twentieth Century Iran. Culture, Ideology, and Mobilizing Frameworks (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005), International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 39:3 (2007): 501-502.
- Stefan Sigerist, Schweizer im Orient (Schaffhausen: Selbstverlag, 2004), Iranian Studies 40:1 (2007): 113-16.
- Mohammad Hadi Mohammadi and Zohreh Ghaemi (2003): Tārikh-e adabiyāt-e kudakān (Tehran: Nashr-e Chistā), Iranian Studies 38:3 (2005): 513-15.
- Mahdi Samāi (2003): Farhang-loghāt-e zabān-e makhfi (Tehran: Nashr-e Markaz), Iranian Studies 38:3 (2005): 536-38.
- Reza Bigdeloo (2001): Bāstāngarā’i dar tārikh-e mo‘āser-e Irān (Tehran: Nashr-e Markaz), Iranian Studies 38:3 (2005): 538-39.
- Markus Ineichen (2002): Die schwedischen Offiziere in Persien (1911-1916). Friedensengel, Weltgendarmen, oder Handelsagenten einer Kleinmacht im ausgehenden Zeitalter des Imperialismus? (Bern: Peter Lang), Iranian Studies 38:2 (2005): 338-40.
- Marjane Satrapi (2001): Persepolis. 1er et 2ième volumes (Paris: L’Association), Iranian Studies 37:1 (2004) : 179-80.
- Ebrahim Towfigh (2000): Modernisierung und postkoloniale Herrschaft in Iran. Versuch über den Staat [Modernization and post-colonial rule in Iran. Essay on the state] (Frankfurt a.M.: Verlag für interkulturelle Kommunikation), Iranian Studies 36:2 (2003): 296-300.
- José María Sierra Nava (2001): Episodios Persas (Burgos: Editorial Dossoles), Iranian Studies 36:1 (2003): 152-53.
Newspaper articles
- Review of Ulrich Ladurner und Gero von Randow, Die iranische Bombe. Hintergründe einer globalen Gefahr (Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 2006), Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 11, 2006.
- “Frauen bleiben draussen: Nicht nur im Kino: Iranische Frauen im “Offside,” Basler Zeitung, May 13, 2006.
- “Familienplannung auf Islamisch. Gratwanderung zwischen Pragmatik und Moral in Iran,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung,October 20, 2004.
- “Racing Ahead. Argot and Urban Culture in Modern-Day Tehran,” Daily Star (Beirut), October 16, 2004.
- “Afghanen wählen auch in Iran und Pakistan. Intensivierte Politik der Repatriierung von Flüchtlingen,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 8, 2004.
- “Furniture Design: A Sign of Change in Iran? Popularity of non-licensed IKEA stores is booming,” Daily Star (Beirut), September 1, 2004.
- “Spritzentausch in Tehran,” WochenZeitung (Zürich)Nr. 51 (2004).
- “Modelling Marriage: Family Magazines in Iran”, Bad Jens. Iranian Feminist Newsletter, http://www.badjens.com, seventh edition, September 2004.
- “Eidechsen, Skorpione und der kleine Prinz. Verbot des Kassenschlagers “Marmulak” in Irans Kinos,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung,May 19, 2004.
Other
- Constitutionalism and Autocracy in Modern Iran [D.E.S. (MA), 1997] ISSN 1422-3007, © Université de Genève, Département de science politique, Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales, Mai 2001.
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