Pomona College associate dean receives service award

Assistant professor of history at Pomona College Arash Khazeni won a 2010 Middle East Studies Association book award.

The award was the 2010 Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award for Khazeni's volume "Tribes & Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran."

The Middle East Studies Association of North America gave the recognition, according to a Pomona College news release. 

Award criteria, according to the news release, included "substantive understanding of the social and political experiences of the Iranian people and their civilization" and "their contribution to and influence on the world at large."