Trita Parsi is the author of Treacherous Alliance - The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States (Yale University Press, 2007.) He wrote his Doctoral thesis on Israeli-Iranian relations at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 2006. He is a co-founder and current President of the National Iranian American Council (www.niacouncil.org), a non-partisan, non-profit organization promoting Iranian-American participation in American civic life. He is also a frequent commentator on US-Iranian relations and Middle Eastern affairs, and has appeared on BBC World News, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CNN, Al Jazeera, C-Span, NPR, MSNBC, Voice of America and British Channel 4.
This lecture is part of the Center's Persian Lecture Series.
Cost : Free
PeterSzanton, Center for Near Eastern Studies
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Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Center for Social Theory and Comparative History