Chehabi in the Daily Free Press on Travel Ban
Houchang E. Chehabi, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was recently interviewed as part of a story on how President Donald Trump’s executive order banning citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States for 90 days has affected the Boston University community.
Chehabi was quoted in a February 2, 2017 article in The Daily Free Press entitled “Trump’s Immigration Ban Affects BU Students, Faculty.”
From the text of the article:
Houchang Chehabi, an international relations professor at Boston University, said that due to his criticism of Iranian government, its security has issued him warnings of arrest if he should travel to Iran.
After President Donald Trump issued an order Friday to ban citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States for 90 days, Chehabi, already singled out by his native Iran, said he now feels singled out by the United States as well.
“I’m sort of discriminated against in both countries of which I have the citizenship,” said Chehabi, who holds dual citizenship of the United States and Iran. “I can’t visit [Iran because] I’m a citizen of the United States, and I’m being singled out [here] because I’m of Iranian background.”
You can read the entire article here.
Houchang Chehabi has taught at Harvard and has been a visiting professor at the University of St. Andrews, UCLA, and the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa. He has published two books, Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990) and Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (2006). Chehabi has written numerous articles, book reviews, and translations. You can read more about him here.