This is a hybrid event. Zoom link for online viewing: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97189398973
Based on the research published in, Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations, this book talk will briefly review the events leading to the US-Israeli war on Iran, followed by a summary of the most recent developments in the war and a discussion of how they are interpreted by Iranian and international scholars and political observers.
About the Speaker
Afshin Matin-Asgari is professor emeritus of modern Middle East history at California State University, Los Angeles. His specialty is 20th century Iranian intellectual and political history, particularly leftist movements. He is the author of Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah: 1960s-1970s (Mazda Publishers, 2002), Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations (Verso Publishers, 2026), as well as more than thirty articles and book chapters.
Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Iranian Studies, with major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian and the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies.