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"The End of the Axis of Resistance?" MERIP.
"America's Middle East Foreign Policy is on Autopilot," The New Arab.
"The Enduring Problem with Proxies," Responsible Statecraft. In Persian.
"After 9/11, Hunting 'Enemies of Humanity' Went Global," The Hill, with Ameem Lutfi.
"Negotiating Gender during Times of Crisis in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Visual Propaganda from the Iran-Iraq War until COVID-19," British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, with Olmo Gölz.
Legacies of 9/11 and the Global War on Terror: Volume II (ed.), with Ameem Lutfi.
Welcome! I am currently Deputy Director and a Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences focusing on the history, culture, and politics of Iran. Previous positions include Kluge Fellow at the US Library of Congress, Distinguished Visiting Professor (Class of 1955 Chair in Middle East Studies) at the United States Naval Academy, and Visiting Scholar and Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Postdoctoral Fellow for Transregional Research at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland. I write frequently about Iran, the Middle East, and US foreign policy in academic outlets and the international press. You can find my latest writings here or visit the publications page for a more comprehensive look.
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