Azad Amanat is an intern at the Oman Library at the Middle East Institute. He recently graduated from Yale with a B.A. in history, focusing on the Middle East. While an undergraduate, he pursued his interest in diplomacy and international relations and wrote a senior essay on Iranian-American negotiations during the beginnings of the 1979 Revolution. He plans to return to school to complete a Masters in Public Policy and then would like to pursue a career in diplomacy.
The Colbert Held Archive: A Portrait of the Middle East
The Colbert Held Archive at the Middle East Institute is an impressive and unique collection of over 18,000 color Kodachrome slides donated by Colbert Held in 2014. A former foreign service officer and later professor of political geography, cultural geography, and Middle East history at Baylor University, Held captured a stunning variety of photographs of the Middle East during his many travels to the region between 1957 and 2005.
