Select Media
2023 Coercion and Inequality, Phenomenal World, Aug 23, with Esfandyar Batmanghelidj. Republished in Jacobin
2023 Iran’s Labor Movement, The Iran Podcast, Jul 7
2022 Why Won’t the Workers of Iran Unite, Foreign Policy, Aug 23, with Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
2021 Majidi in Context, Sidecar, Jul 1
2020 Tehran’s Universal Studios, with Masoumeh Hashemi. New Left Review, 121: 109–131. Available in Persian at Naqd-e Eqtesad-e Siyasi
2018 How Years of Increasing Labor Unrest Signaled Iran’s Latest Protest Wave, The Washington Post Monkey Cage, Jan 19, with Kevan Harris
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2022 Corporatism Without Party: The State, War, and Industrial Labor in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Middle Eastern Studies. PDF
2019 Corporatist Coalitions as Agents of Civil Society: The Politics of Student and Labour Unions in Iran. Mediterranean Politics, 24/4: 467–490. PDF
2019 Pen to the Tiller: Land Reform and Social Mobility Across the 1979 Iranian Revolution, with Kevan Harris. Journal of Agrarian Change, 19:3: 465–486. PDF
2017 Neither Dulati nor Khosusi: Islam, Education and Civil Society in Post-1989 Iran. Iranian Studies, 50/4: 575–600. PDF
Book Reviews
2019 Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East, by Hashemi Nader and Danny Postel (eds), Peace Review, 31/1: 113–116. PDF
2019 The Political Economy of Interest-Free Funds and Credit Institutions: The Fall of an Ideology, by Bahman Ahmadi ‘Amu’i, Iranian Studies, 52/1-2: 261–265. PDF
2018 The Transformation of Baby Names in Tehran, 1996-2015, by Abbas Abdi, Iranian Studies 51/2: 333–336.
2017 Power and Change in Iran: Politics of Contention and Conciliation, by Daniel Brumberg and Farideh Farhi (eds), Iranian Studies, 50/4: 647–649. PDF
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