H.E. Chehabi is Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. He has also taught at Harvard University and has held visiting appointments at UCLA and the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism, editor of Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years, and co-editor, with Vanessa Martin, of Iran's Constitutional Revolution, all I.B.Tauris. Peyman Jafari is a PhD researcher at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam and Leiden University. Maral Jefroudi is a PhD researcher at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam and Leiden University