Making Space for the Gulf || NYU Book Talk

On September 18, 2024, NYU's Iranian Studies Initiative and Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies hosted a Book Talk featuring Arang Keshavarzian (NYU, Associate Professor and Department Chair), as well as Natasha Iskander (NYU, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service), and Ali Mirsepassi (NYU, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies).
The Persian Gulf has long been a fraught space-an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those who live there and those beyond its shore. Making Space for the Gulf reveals how capitalism, empire-building, geopolitics, and urbanism have all shaped and been conditioned by different understandings of the region over the last two centuries. This new book by Arang Keshavarzian reveals how the Gulf has been globalized through transnational relations, regionalized as a geopolitical category, and cleaved along myriad national divisions and pernicious distinctions. When understood as a process, not an object, the Persian Gulf reveals much about how regions and the world have been made in modern times.
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