Firoozeh kashani-sabet biography
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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
American-Iranian historian
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet | |
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| Born | Tehran, Iran |
| Education | B.A., 1989, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University |
| Thesis | Frontier Fictions: Land, Culture, and Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 (1997) |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Main interests | Iranian-Afghan relations, Iraqi-Iranian relations, Modern Islam |
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is an American-Iranian historian.
Currently, she serves as Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on boundary disputes, borderland histories, gender, and identity politics in the Middle East.
Early life and education
Born and raised in Tehran, Iran, Kashani-Sabet attended the Community School in Tehran.[1] During the Iran-Iraq War, Kashani-Sabet moved to Paris, France and lived there for approximately a year before immigrating to the United Sta