Recent News
Jan 24 2017 | Posted In: Announcements
Applications are now open for summer 2017 Global Studies internships.
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Jan 23 2017
The annual newsletter of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies features a recommended reading list of books published by Stanford University Press (SUP) that focus on Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
In a New York Times op-ed, affiliated faculty member Siegfried S. Hecker writes that President-elect Donald Trump faces an even graver nuclear threat from North Korea than his two predecessors. In order to avoid a nuclear crisis, he writes that President-elect Trump should send a presidential envoy...
Jan 9 2017 | Posted In: Faculty
On Sunday, January 8, former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani passed away at the age of 82.
In an interview with Reuters, Professor Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian Studies program at Stanford, said Rafsanjani's death could not have come at a worse time, as U.S. President-elect...
The Iranian Studies Program at Stanford launched a new initiative, called the Stanford Iran 2040 Project, that will produce research and analyses on Iran’s economy.
A new research initiative at Stanford is bringing together experts to create independent data-driven analysis on the current state...
