Iran at at Crossroads: Economic Protest Turned Political Crisis

Michael Rubin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he specializes in Iran, Turkey, and the broader Middle East. A former Pentagon official, Dr. Rubin has lived in post-revolution Iran, Yemen, and both pre- and postwar Iraq. He also spent time with the Taliban before 9/11. For more than a decade, he taught classes at sea about the Horn of Africa and Middle East conflicts, culture, and terrorism, to deployed US Navy and Marine units. Dr. Rubin is the author, coauthor, and coeditor of several books exploring diplomacy, Iranian history, Arab culture, Kurdish studies, and Shi’ite politics, including “Seven Pillars: What Really Causes Instability in the Middle East?” (AEI Press, 2019); “Kurdistan Rising” (AEI Press, 2016); “Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes” (Encounter Books, 2014); and “Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos” (Palgrave, 2005). Dr. Rubin has a PhD and an MA in history from Yale University, where he also obtained a BS in biology. --- Co-sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Society, the Dickey Center for International Understanding, and the Davidson Institute for Global Security. Free and open to the public, tickets required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1982227156786?aff=oddtdtcreator Register for the livestream here: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_71w-c3a6RD2JZh_wCAkyLw More information here: https://home.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=80529&begin=2026-02-26&offset=0&limit=10