Books - Published   Soli Shahvar,'The Forgotten Schools': The Baha'is and Modern Education in Iran, 1899-1934. London & New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers - To read Jasamin Rostan-Kolayi book review press here.  Soli Shahvar et al., The Baha’is of Iran, Transcaspia and the Caucasus.              Vol. I: Letters of Russian Officers and Officials              Vol. II: Reports and Correspondence of Russian Officials Translated, annotated and edited, with detailed introductions. London & New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2011   Books – In process Soli Shahvar & Eran Segal, eds. The Persian Gulf: New Directions in Research. Haifa: Pardes, forthcoming (in Hebrew) Soli Shahvar, ed., University of Haifa Lectures in Baha'i Studies, Waterloo, ON, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, forthcoming Soli Shahvar, Madares-e Faramoush-shodeh: Baha'iyan  va Amouzesh va Parvaresh-e Novin dar Iran, 1899 – 1934 [extended Persian translation, with additional material, of 'The Forgotten Schools': The Baha'is and Modern Education in Iran, 1899-1934], Spånga, Sweden: Nashr-e Baran, forthcoming in 2013 (in Persian)      Articles in Refereed Journals   Published “Concession Hunting in the Age of Reform: British Companies and the Search for    Government Guarantees; Telegraph Concessions through Ottoman Territories, 1855- 1858”, Middle Eastern Studies  38, 4 (October 2002): 169-193.  “Tribes and Telegraphs in Lower Iraq: The Muntafiq and the Baghdad-Basrah Telegraph Line of 1863-1865”, Middle Eastern Studies  39, 1 (January 2003): 89-116. "Communications, Qajar Irredentism and the Strategies of British India: The Makran Coast Telegraph and British Policy of Containing Persia in the East (Baluchistan) – Part I", Iranian Studies 39, 3 (September 2006): 329-351. "Communications, Qajar Irredentism and the Strategies of British India: The Makran Coast Telegraph and British Policy of Containing Persia in the East (Baluchistan) – Part II”, Iranian Studies 39, 4 (December 2006): 569-595 “Lo Scontro con l’Iran Ora è Piu Probabile”, Limes – Rivisita Italiana di Geopolitica, Quaderno Speciale no. 2 (2006): 105-114 (in Italian). “Why Israel Should Talk with Tehran (while Arming its Missiles),” Heartland – EurAsian Review of Geopolitics 2 (2006): 27-35. "Iron Poles, Wooden Poles: The Electric Telegraph and the Ottoman-Iranian Boundary Conflict, 1863-1865", The British Journal of Middle East Studies 34, 1 (April 2007): 23-42. "Iran, Il Giorno Dopo: La Guerra che non Conviene", Limes – Rivisita Italiana di Geopolitica 1 (2008): 1-14 (in Italian). "The Islamic Regime in Iran and Its Attitude towards the Jews: The Religious and Political Dimensions", Immigrants and Minorities 27, 1 (March 2009): 82-117. "Bein-e Tamjid va Nefrat: Madares-e Baha'i dar Iran", Payam-e Baha'i 386 (January 2012): 20-24 (in Persian).   Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books        Published  "Iran, 1925-1946", in The Middle East Between the World Wars, ed. Haggai     Erlich, Tel Aviv: The Open University, 2003, part 2, vol. 5, pp. 251-86 (in Hebrew). "Technology, Diplomacy and European Economic Enterprise in mid Nineteenth Century Ottoman Middle East: The Indo-European Telegraph Line and the Clash of the Anglo-Ottoman Interests", in Turkey: The Ottoman Past and the Republican Present, eds. Michael Winter and Miri Sheffer, Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern & African Studies and the Dept. for Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, pp. 211-245 (in Hebrew). “Farsi: The Modernization Process and the Advent of English” in Globally Speaking: Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages, eds. Judith Rosenhouse and Rotem Kowner. Clevedon, U.K.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Ontario, Canada: Multilingual Matters, 2008, pp. 187-207.   Entries in Encyclopedias  "First Telegraph Lines in Persia", The Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, Costa Mesa, Ca.: Mazda Publishers   "First Railroad Built and Operated in Persia," The Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed.     Ehsan Yarshater. Costa Mesa, Ca.: Mazda Publishers          Other Scientific Publications   Book Reviews Book review in ha-Mizrah ha-Hadash 42 (2002): 284-87 (in Hebrew) on: David Menashri, Revolution at a Crossroads: Iran's Domestic Politics and Regional Ambitions. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1997.  Book review in The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 4: 3 (2010): 171-73, on: Haggai Ram, Iranophobia: The Logic of an Israeli Obsession, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.  Book review in Bustan: The Middle East Book Review 3 (2012): 87-90, on: The Baha'is of Iran: Socio-Historical Studies, ed. Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena Fazel, Routeledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies, vol. 12, London: Routeledge, 2008.  Book review in Journal of Baha'i Studies 21, 1 (April 2011): 99-103, on:   The Baha'is of Iran: Socio-Historical Studies, ed. Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena Fazel, Routeledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies, vol. 12, London: Routeledge, 2008.  Book review in The International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IJMES) on:                                                                                               Mehrdad Amanat, Jewish Identities in Iran: Resistance and Conversion to Islam and the Baha'i Faith, Library of Modern Religions 9, London & New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011(forthcoming).  Book review in Journal of Baha'i Studies on: Mehrdad Amanat, Jewish Identities in Iran: Resistance and Conversion to Islam and the Baha'i Faith, London & New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011(forthcoming).            Academic Editor and Series Coordinator Iranian Studies coordinator, Dept. of Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Haifa Baha'i Studies coordinator, the University of Haifa Lecture Series in Baha'i Studies coordinator, the Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies & the Faculty of Humanities, the University of Haifa Academic editor of the Hebrew translation of Mark Bowden's Guests of the Ayatollah (New York, NY: Grove Atlantic Inc, 2006), translated into Hebrew by Igal Eyal as "Orkhav" shel ha-Ayatollah: Ha-Krav ha-Rishon be-Milkhemet ha-Ma'arav 'im ha-Islam ha-Fundementalisti, Moshav Ben Shemen: Modan, 2012. "Iran Culture Series" coordinator, the Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies & Ktav Publishers Academic editor of Shirat Rumi [Rumi's Poetry]: A Selection from the Mathnavi, translated into Hebrew by Moshe Menasheof, with extensive introduction and annotations, Tel Aviv: Ktav Publishers, 2013.