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Gholam Reza Afkhami (Persian:غلامرضا افخمی; 1936 – 26 August 2024) was an Iranian-American scholar, author, educator, and aPahlavi Iran government official.[1] He was the senior scholar and director of Social Science Research and International Studies at theFoundation for Iranian Studies. The Foundation for Iranian Studies is aBethesda,Maryland-based research institution dedicated to the study of Iranian history, culture, economy and politics, created with the financial support from PrincessAshraf Pahlavi.
Reza Afkhami was born in 1936.[2] Before theIranian Revolution, he was secretary general of Iran's National Committee for World Literacy Program (1975–1979), headed by Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, and was the Deputy Minister of Interior (1974–1975).[3] Between 1967 and 1979 he was professor of politics and until 1974 associate dean of the College of Economics and Political Science at theNational University of Iran.
Afkhami was a visiting scholar at theHoover Institution on Revolution, War and Peace atStanford University (1980 to 1983), where he studied issues ofdevelopment in the "Third World", he lectured on conflict and concord in the U.S. relations with the countries of the Middle East, and he prepared a text on theIranian Revolution.
Afkhami died on 26 August 2024, at the age of 87.[4][5]
Afkhami was the author of several books and articles in Persian and English. Afkhami's bookThe Life and Times of the Shah (University of California Press; winter 2008), is a detailed history ofMohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran 1941 to 1979, which is set against the political, economic, social, and cultural dynamics of the country and the world in which he lived and worked.[6]
