John Ghazvinian
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John Ghazvinian (Persian: جان قزوینیان, born April 23, 1974)[1] is an Iranian-American author, historian, and former journalist. He is a noted authority on the history of U.S.-Iran relations and is best known for his book, America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present – named by the New York Times as one of “100 Notable Books of 2021”.[2]
Ghazvinian is the Executive Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He previously worked as a journalist and has written for Newsweek, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Sunday Times, and Politico. In 2009, he received a high-profile fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation, and in 2016 another fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities – both in support of his research on the history of U.S.–Iran relations.[3] He is also the author of Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil (Harcourt, 2007) and co-editor of American and Muslim Worlds Before 1900 (Bloomsbury, 2020).