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The Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions at UCLA is privileged to continue the publication of the Bulletin of the Asia Institute beginning with Volume 32, newly available as of Summer 2026.

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Spearheaded by Carol Altman Bromberg since the 1980s and serving as a foundational journal for Iranian, Near Eastern, and Central Asian studies for almost one hundred years, the Bulletin of the Asia Institute represents a scholarly tradition and standard of unparalleled quality.

The Yarshater Center is honored to be bequeathed the mantle of publication of such a prestigious journal. We are grateful to Editor Emerita Bromberg for entrusting the journal to the Yarshater Center and its Director, M. Rahim Shayegan, who is serving as the Bulletin’s next editor.

The Yarshater Center is committed to the dissemination of all research gratis. As such, the Bulletin shall be published simultaneously in high-quality print format and free Open Access, available to download here. Volumes 1–32 shall be populated here shortly.