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Touraj Daryaee is Howard C. Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and the Persianate World and the Associate Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture at the
University of
California, Irvine.

Touraj Daryaee was born in Tehran, Iran in 1967. His elementary and secondary schooling was in Tehran, Iran and Athens, Greece. Daryaee took his Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999.

His most recent books include: Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, I.B. Tauris, London, 2009 and Scholars & Humanists: Iranian Studies in Henning and Taqizadeh Correspondences 1937-1966, in collaboration with I. Afshar, Mazda Publishers, 2009.

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Mohsen Namjoo: A New Music and Poetry for Modern Iran

Posted December 10, 2010 | 09:32:51 (EST)

On June 20th, 2010, the Disney Concert Hall hosted a young Iranian musician named Mohsen Namjoo. He was born in a small city in the northeast of Iran named Torbat Jam, but now resides in Europe, mainly in Italy and Austria. One may ask why Namjoo is important enough to...

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Auctioning Ancient Iranian Artifacts: Implications for US Cultural Policy

Posted December 3, 2009 | 14:35:44 (EST)

A bombing in Jerusalem. A troubled foreign country tried in absentia in U.S. courts. Priceless archeological artifacts threatened. It sounds like it could be the plot of Dan Brown's next novel, but this time the situation is a real one that could have tragic consequences for America's cultural policies and...

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