Iran’s Mohammad Mosaddegh and Georgia’s Zviad Gamsakhurdia were two of the most consequential national leaders of the twentieth century. Nicolas Go...

In this panoramic guide by one of the world's most knowledgeable movie enthusiasts, Cyrus Ghani reviews more than six hundred and fifty of the big ...

In this panoramic guide by one of the world's most knowledgeable movie enthusiasts, Cyrus Ghani reviews more than six hundred and fifty of the big ...

Jahan Khatun was a fourteenth-century Persian princess who lived through tumultuous political upheavals: her father was murdered when she was a tee...

In the early-seventeenth century the European thirst for knowledge about other countries and cultures was growing, after all it was the Age of the ...

Persians who travelled to the West during the Safavid and early Qajar period (early 17th-to-early 19th century) have received little attention. Thi...

A Vocal Dictionary For Persian: Here And Now (Introduction to Persian): We have recently launched an online VOCAL DICTIONARY for Volume one of the ...

CONTAINING more than 1000 high-frequency vocabulary items as well as numerous idioms and idiomatic expressions, Book II of Persian: Here and Now ha...

Containing over 1000 high-frequency vocabulary items as well as numerous idioms and idiomatic expressions, Book II has been crafted for teaching at...

This book provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the Persian Gulf at a time of major political change, when the successive arrivals of...

A small, sleepy port in the Persian Gulf, Bandar-e Lengeh has had a varied and chequered history since its launch onto the historical scene around ...

Bandar Abbas, once a small fishing village, became the gateway port for Iran after Shah Abbas defeated the Portuguese in 1622. However, with the fa...

Muscat, the capital city of present day Oman, has had a long, and colorful history as a typical Indian Ocean port at the mouth of the Persian Gulf....

The island of Khark was an important link in Persian Gulf navigation, supplying passing ships with water, victuals, and pilots for ships sailing to...

This book discusses the political and economic history of the port of Bushehr, which by the end of the eighteenth century had become the gateway to...

Dutch relations with Oman from 1651 to 1806 were substantial and the written accounts provide the most detailed picture of the political and socio-...

Dutch relations with Oman from 1651 to 1806 were substantial and the written accounts provide the most detailed picture of the political and socio-...

This book focuses on two related themes: the importance of what goes on in a port city's hinterland, and, the importance of a safe and secure road ...

The history of the Persian Gulf during the 18th century is still little known. This gap is now being filled by the historian and renowned scholar W...

Pleasure in the form of food, drink or drugs, is the subject of this book, which looks at how their consumption has played a key role in social int...

An essential volume for anyone attempting to understand Persia's past and present, this new edition features an introduction by Abbas Amanat, Brown...

Amir Abbas Hoveyda was a central figure in the historic struggle between modernity and tradition in Iran -- a struggle pitting Western cosmopolitan...

Containing over 2000 words and expressions, this is a course book that provides first year students with both language and cultural proficiency. Th...

This book offer a broad and comprehensive survey of the state of public health, medical practice and its practitioners in 1800-1925. Based on first...