Touraj Atabaki President International Society Iranian Studies

IISH Senior Researcher Touraj Atabaki has been elected as the President of the International Society of Iranian Studies (2014-2016).

The International Society for Iranian Studies, with over 750 membership, was founded in 1967 as an academic society to support and promote the field of Iranian Studies at the international level. The International Society for Iranian Studies, an affiliated member of the international Middle East Studies Association, is a private, not-for-profit, non-political organization of persons interested in Iranian Studies in the broadest sense. An elected council and an executive council run the affairs of the organization.

The objectives of the Society are to promote high standards of scholarship in the field, to encourage the teaching of Iranian Studies at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and to encourage and facilitate scholarly exchange amongst its international membership. The International Society for Iranian Studies publishes Iranian Studies, a journal that continues to serve as the principal journal in the field. Iranian Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of history, literature, culture, and society, covering all regions of the globe with a Persian or Iranian legacy, especially Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Caucasus and northern India, as well as diaspora communities of Iranians in Europe and the United States.

As an independent, non-partisan, non-political, multi-disciplinary international community of scholars, students, academic and non-academic researchers, and aficionados of Iranian studies, The International Society for Iranian Studies is committed to promoting the free exchange of ideas, freedom of expression in all forms and all media, and unrestricted pursuit of (academic and non-academic) research, instruction, publication, and presentation (in Iran and internationally) without fear of intimidation and persecution. To achieve this goal, in 2005 The International Society for Iranian Studies organized the Committee for Intellectual and Academic Freedom.