Ervand Abrahamian

Ervand Abrahamian
Native name	Armenian: Երուանդ Աբրահամեան, Persian: یرواند آبراهامیان‎‎
Born	1940 Tehran, Iran
Fields	history of Iran
Institutions	The City University of New York
Alma mater	Rugby School and Oxford University

Ervand Abrahamian (Armenian: Երուանդ Աբրահամեան; Persian: یرواند آبراهامیان‎‎; born 1940, in Tehran) Ervand Abrahamian is a historian of Middle Eastern and particularly Iranian history.

An Armenian-Iranian by birth and raised in England, he received his M.A. at Oxford University and his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He teaches at the City University of New York (CUNY) where he is Distinguished Professor of History at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He has taught at Princeton University, New York University and Oxford University. Abrahamian was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

He has appeared as a guest on such shows as The Charlie Rose Show and World Focus, speaking on contemporary Iranian politics.

Publications

• Iran Between Two Revolutions (1982)
• The Iranian Mojahedin (1989)
• Khomeinism (1993)
• Tortured Confessions (1999)
• Inventing the Axis of Evil
• A History of Modern Iran (2008)
• The Coup: 1953, The CIA and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations (2013)

External links

• CUNY Distinguished Professor Ervand Abrahamian