1. Ervand Abrahamian is an Iranian-American historian of the Middle East.
15 Facts About Ervand Abrahamian
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Ervand Abrahamian is Distinguished Professor of History at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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Ervand Vahan Abrahamian was born in 1940 in Tehran to Armenian parents.
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Ervand Abrahamian attended three grades at the Mehr School in Tehran and was later sent off to Rugby School, a prestigious boarding school in England.
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Ervand Abrahamian has formerly taught at Princeton University, New York University, Columbia University, and Oxford University.
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Ervand Abrahamian is currently Distinguished Professor of History at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
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Ervand Abrahamian is considered an authority on Iranian opposition movements, including the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
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Ervand Abrahamian has been regarded as one of the leading historians of modern Iran.
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Ervand Abrahamian's best known and most cited book is Iran Between Two Revolutions, published by Princeton University Press.
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In Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin Ervand Abrahamian investigated the origins and history of the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
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Ervand Abrahamian argued that its most important contribution is the exposition of the party's ideology.
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Dr Ervand Abrahamian writes sympathetically and at times dramatically-but always as an accomplished scholar.
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Ervand Abrahamian was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.
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Ervand Abrahamian is a member of the Middle East Studies Association of North America and the American Historical Association.
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In 1967, Abrahamian was engaged to Helen Mary Harbison, the daughter of late historian E Harris Harbison.