Touraj Daryaee

Touraj Daryaee (; born 1967) is an Iranologist and historian. He is from Iran. He works as the director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
He got a Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999. He has taught at UCLA.
He is the editor of the "Name-ye Iran-e Bastan", "The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies" and the "DABIR: Digital Ar". He is also the director of the "Sasanika Project", a project on the history and culture of Sasanians. His most famous books are "Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire" and "Sasanian Iran (224-651 CE): Portrait of a Late Antique Empire".
Publications.
Daryaee has written many publications. His book, "Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire", in 2010 received multiple awards by BRISMES and the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies.
Selected Articles (European Languages).
no. 3-4, 1998(2000), pp. 431-462.