Jewish Studies Workshop with Arash Azizi: "Iranian Jewish Communists and the Iranian-Israeli Relationship"

The Yale Jewish Studies Workshop, which meets regularly throughout the fall and spring semester, features pre-circulated works-in-progress by new faculty members, visiting professors, research scholars, postdoctoral associates, and advanced doctoral students. This workshop provides an important opportunity for conversation across temporal and disciplinary boundaries within Jewish Studies. All members of the university community are warmly invited to join these workshops and learn together. Lunch is provided. 

Arash Azizi is a historian of modern Middle East and global history of the 20th century with a focus on social and political movements and a PhD from NYU. He is the author of Shadow Commander: US, Soleimani and Iran's Global Ambitions and What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom. His upcoming Counterweights: Iran, Israel and the Battle for the Middle East will be published by Public Affairs. His peer-reviewed articles have been published in Middle Eastern Studies and International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and he has previously taught at NYU, Clemson University and Boston University.