CIRS Vlog | Mehran Kamrava | An Insight Into the Israel-Iran Conflict | June 26, 2025

Speaker: Professor Mehran Kamrava, Professor of Government, Georgetown University Qatar.

Mehran Kamrava is Professor of Government at Georgetown University in Qatar. His research focuses on the modern political history and contemporary politics of the Middle East. He holds a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Cambridge.

He is the author of numerous books, including How Islam Rules in Iran: Theology and Theocracy in the Islamic Republic (2024), Righteous Politics: Power and Resilience in Iran (2023), A Dynastic History of Iran: From the Qajars to the Pahlavis (2022), Triumph and Despair: In Search of Iran’s Islamic Republic (2022), A Concise History of Revolution (2020), Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf (2018), Inside the Arab State (2018), The Impossibility of Palestine (2016), Qatar: Small State, Big Politics (2015), The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War (3rd ed., 2013), and Iran’s Intellectual Revolution (2008).

His edited volumes include The Sacred Republic: Power and Institutions in Iran (2023), The Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics (2020), The Great Game in West Asia (2017), Fragile Politics (2016), Beyond the Arab Spring (2015), The Political Economy of the Persian Gulf (2012), The Nuclear Question in the Middle East (2012), and The International Politics of the Persian Gulf (2011).

Moderator: Misba Bhatti, Research Analyst, CIRS