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'''Shaul Bakhash''' (in {{lang-fa|شائول بخاش}}), is an Iranian-American historian in Iranian studies at George Mason University where he is a "Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History."

Bakhash is Jewish and was born in Iran. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow as well as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He received his MA from [[Harvard University]] and his DPhil from the University of Oxford.

His publications focus on Iran and its history and politics. He serves on the Board of Advisory Editors of ''The Middle East Journal''. Bakhash is also a visiting fellow at [[Brookings Institution]]'s Saban Center for Middle East Policy, where he will be focusing on "the prospects for internal reform in Iran".

He is married to the Iranian-American Middle East studies scholar [[Haleh Esfandiari]].

==See also==
*Iranistics

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060903223901/http://www.gmu.edu/robinson/bakhash.htm George Mason University bio page]
*[http://www.americanacademy.de/home/distinguished-visitors/dv-directory/ American Academy in Berlin page]

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