Bahman Baktiari
Professor Bahman Baktiari is Director of the School of Policy and International Affairs at the University of Maine.
He received his Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. His most recent publication, Iranian Society 30 Years after the Revolution: A Surprising Picture (pdf), appeared in the Spring 2009 special issue of The Middle East Journal.
He was the chief organizer of two major international conferences in 2007, Globalization in the 21st Century: How Interconnected is the World? (April 23-26, 2007, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), and Nuclear Weapons and the Middle East Region: A New Round of Proliferation? (March 6-7, 2007, Washington DC.). Papers from both conferences will be published in edited volumes in 2008. He has designed and implemented several research projects involving major institutions in the United States and abroad.
His other publications include Iran's Conservative Revival from the January 2007 issue of Current History. His article, Globalization and Religion, appeared in an edited volume in 2008. His article Reform and Democracy in Iran, in Robert Hefner, Remaking Muslim Politics, Princeton University Press, 2005. His other articles include Doubting Iran's Reforms, appeared in January 2003 issue of Current History. His book chapter (co-authored with Asef Bayat, American University in Cairo) entitled Revolutionary Iran and Egypt: Exporting Inspirations and Anxiety, was published in Nikkie Keddie and R. Mathee, edited volume, Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics, University of Washington Press, 2002. His book, Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: Institutionalization of Factional Politics, was published by the University Press of Florida in 1996. He also co-edited a series of articles entitled Social and Political Developments in Iran, published in the Fall 2001 issue of the Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
Some of his opinion pieces on the Middle East have been published in the Christian Science Monitor, the Council on Foreign Relations' Muslim Politics Report, Maine Sunday Telegram, and Al-Ahram weekly. He has also been interviewed on national public television's Jim Lehrer's NewsHour, CNN International, Voice of America, and Radio Free Europe, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Congressional Research. In 1988, he was appointed as the University of Maine's Academic Associate to the Atlantic Council of the United States. In 1999-2001, Professor Baktiari was invited to give lectures on Iran in several research centers in Cairo, Egypt. For the year of 1999-2001, Professor Baktiari was a Visiting Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo.
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