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PUBLICATIONS > OPINION & ANALYSIS

2024

"America's Middle East Foreign Policy is on Autopilot," The New Arab

"After 9/11, Hunting 'Enemies of Humanity' Went Global," The Hill, with Ameem Lutfi.

​​​"The Enduring Problem with Proxies," Responsible Statecraft. In Persian.

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2023

"Iran Protests: What the Islamic Republic's Propaganda Tells Us,Qantara, with Olmo Gölz. In German. In Arabic.

 

2022

"Iran Protests: Women Subverting the Hyper-Masculine Order in Iran," The New Arab, with Olmo Gölz.

"Balancing Ideology and Responsibility in Iran's Battle Against COVID-19," MERIP, with Olmo Gölz.

"Nové Formy Propagandy v Íránu," Dějiny a Současnot, with Olmo Gölz.

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2021

"20 Year Later, the Legacies of 9/11 and the War on Terror Have Just Begun," The Hill, with Ameem Lutfi.

"Persian New Year is Poetic Moment for Biden to Influence Iranians," The Hill, with Aria Fani. In Persian.

"The Fallacy of the Great-Power Rivalry in the Middle East," Responsible Statecraft, with Mandy Terc. In Arabic.

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2020

"Biden Should Rethink America’s Fraught Relationship with the Saudis," The Hill. In Arabic.

"Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt are Exporting Autocracy Across the Middle East," Responsible Statecraft. In Persian.

​"American Hypocrisy on Display Again in the Middle East," The Hill. In Arabic.

"Going to War with the Coronavirus and Maintaining the State of Resistance in Iran," MERIP, with Olmo Gölz.

"The Mural Merry-Go-Round: The Vali Asr Billboard and Propaganda in Iran,Jadaliyya, with Olmo Gölz.

2019

"The U.S.-Iran Off Ramp Goes Through Yemen," LobeLog. In Arabic.

​"India’s Bludgeoning of Kashmir is New Low for Global Anti-Muslim Violence," The New Arab.

​"Fourth of July a Good Time to Consider the Freedoms Opposes by US Allies in the Middle East," The Hill.

"War with Iran: The Pretext of Proxies," LobeLog.

​"There is No 'Other' But Iran: Misdiagnosing the Causes of Regional Instability," The New Arab.

"Revisiting Revolutionary Slogans in Iran Forty Years Later," MES Insights.

2018

"Iran and the Destabilisation of the Middle East," The New Arab.

"John Bolton and Washington’s Iran Policy Industry," Al Jazeera.

"The Resurfacing of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad," The New Arab.

"After the Iran Protests," MES Insights.

2017

"Critics Ostracize a Rational 'Qatar First' Policy," The Hill.

"Yemen: The Graveyard of U.S. Policy Myths," War on the Rocks.

"The Muslim as a 'Manchurian Candidate'," Al Jazeera English.

2016

"Syrian Civil War: US Should not Arm the Rebels," Al Jazeera.

 

 

2015

"What Constitutes Terrorism in Syria?," Al Jazeera America.

"Crafting a Cultural Idiom of Engagement: The US President's Persian Poetry (Part I)," Words Without Borders, with Aria Fani. Part II.

"Hyping a Proxy War in Yemen," Counterpunch.

"No Way Out: Netanyahu, Iran, and the US Congress," Counterpunch.

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