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Bahman Baktiari is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Research and Academic Programming, University of Maine School of Policy and International Affairs.
He received his Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. His most recent publication, Iran's Conservative Revival, appeared in the January 2007 issue of Current History.
His other publications include Reform and Democracy in Islam, a chapter in Robert Hefner, Remaking Muslim Politics (Princeton University Press, 2005). Doubting Iran's Reforms appeared in the January 2003 issue of Current History. His book chapter (co-authored with Asef Bayat, American University in Cairo), Revolutionary Iran and Egypt: Exporting Inspirations and Anxiety, was published in Nikke Keddie and R. Mathee, edited volume, Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics (University of Washington Press, 2002). Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: Institutionalization of Factional Politics, was published by the University Press of Florida in 1996. Professor Baktiari also co-edited a series of articles entitled Social and Political Developments in Iran, published in the Fall 2001 issue of the Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
Some of his opinion pieces on the Middle East have been published in the Christian Science Monitor, the Council on Foreign Relations' Muslim Politics Report, Maine Sunday Telegram, and Al-Ahram weekly. He has also been interviewed on national public television's Jim Lehrer's NewsHour, CNN International, Voice of America, and Radio Free Europe,the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Congressional Research. In 1988, he was appointed as the University of Maine's Academic Associate to the Atlantic Council of the United States. In 1999-2001, Professor Baktiari was invited to give lectures on Iran in several research centers in Cairo, Egypt. In 1999-2001, Professor Baktiari was a Visiting Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo.
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