Touraj Atabaki

Who is Touraj Atabaki?

Touraj Atabaki is the Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History. He also holds the chair of the Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the School of the Middle East Studies of the Leiden University.

Studied first theoretical physics and then history, he did his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Prof Ervand Abrahamian on the ethnicity and regional autonomy in the twentieth century Iran; it was published in 1993 and reprinted in 2000.

At the present he is coordinating a research project on Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry 1908-2008. He is also a participant in the international project, based at the International Institute of Social History, of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations 1500-2000.