Shaul Bakhash
Shaul Bakhash is an Iranian-American historian and emeritus from George [Mason University].
He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford. Before beginning his academic career, Bakhash was a journalist in Iran, where he wrote for the newspaper Kayhan.
In 2003, Bakhash was a visiting fellow at the think tank Brookings Institution with a focus on "the prospects for internal reform in Iran".