Arang Keshavarzian is an associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU. His teaching and research explore politics and political economy of the modern Middle East and, in particular, Iran, the Persian Gulf, and Arabian Peninsula. His publications include Bazaar and State in Iran as well as essays on urban development, authoritarianism, state-formation, and political economy of trade and smuggling in such journals as Politics and Society, Geopolitics, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Economy and Society, and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. He is also a member of the editorial committee of Middle East Report (MERIP). His current book project, titled Making Space for the Gulf, maps the shifts in global political economy across the long Twentieth Century from the vantage point of the built environment, circuits of trade and migration, and different conceptions and practices of political authority.

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