Remembering a CIA Coup in Iran That Never WasPeter Theroux led the webinar "Remembering a CIA Coup in Iran That Never Was" on March 16, 2026. Peter Theroux is a translator, author, and analyst that has spent much of his career in international affairs. During his career, he has worked for the National Geographic Society doing fieldwork in Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria and produced fifteen books. His original work includes the nonfiction Sandstorms: Days and Nights in Arabic; Translating LA; and The Strange Disappearance of Imam Moussa Sadr. He has translated novels from a wide variety of Iraqi, Egyptian, Nubian, Saudi Arabian, Lebanese, and Palestinian dialects. Authors he translated include Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, Abdelrahman Munif, Emily Habiby, and Idris Ali. He was awarded the Columbia University Translation Award for his work. Theroux attended Harvard University (AB 1978) and the University of Cairo. He received an honorary doctorate from Mount St. Mary's College in 1997. Theroux wrote the foreword to Professor Fouad Ajami’s posthumous autobiography, When Magic Failed: A Memoir of a Lebanese Childhood, Caught Between East and West. |