Dr. Liora Hendelman-Baavur is a historian of modern Iran and a senior researcher at the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies (ACIS) at Tel Aviv University, which she directed from 2019 to 2023. She teaches in the University's new International MA Program in Applied Middle Eastern Studies (MAMES).
She is the author of Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2019), winner of the 2022 Latifeh Yarshater Award from the Association for Iranian Studies (AIS). She is the editor of Iran Then and Now: Society, Religion and Politics (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2017; in Hebrew), a volume in honor of Prof. David Menashri, and co-editor, with David Menashri, of Iran: Anatomy of a Revolution (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2009; in Hebrew). Her new book, The Pahlavis: The Rise and Fall of a Monarchy in Iran, is forthcoming in Hebrew.
Selected Recent Publications:
"Billboard Murals as Adversarial Public Diplomacy: Remediation and Sacred Typology in Iran's 'True Promise' Campaigns," Media, War & Conflict (2026).
"'The Fantasy That Was Persia': Iran Air Advertising and Modernity in the Late Pahlavi Era," The Journal of Transport History (2026).
"A Man for All Seasons: Mosaddeq's Image and Legacy in Contemporary Iran," International Journal of Middle East Studies 56, no. 2 (2024): 307–31.
