Intellectual Essays

“Teaching the Middle East after October 7: Reflections on Academic Freedom, Antisemitism and Palestine”
April 2024
Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)
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Teaching During a Time of War
Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education
February 26, 2024
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Lessons on Genocide from Gaza to Xinjiang
February 24, 2024
Democracy in Exile
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On the World Court Ruling, Gaza and Mideast Authoritarianism
February 9, 2024
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MIGHT THE IRGC STAGE A COUP IN IRAN?
January 19, 2023
Carnegie Middle East Center
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ANWAR IBRAHIM: A PROFILE IN COURAGE
December 7, 2022
New Lines Magazine
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ON ARAB DICTATORS AND IRANIAN PROTESTS: A THIRD REVOLUTIONARY WAVE?
October 31st, 2022
Democracy in Exile
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ON IRAN, WOMEN AND REVOLUTION
September 28th, 2022
Democracy in Exile
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NOTES ON ANTI-SEMITISM, ISRAEL, AND SALMAN RUSHDIE
September 19th, 2022
Jadaliyya
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JOE BIDEN, NEOIMPERIALISM AND THE MIDDLE EAST
July 20th, 2022
Middle East Eye
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JOE BIDEN’S TEPID RESPONSE TO TUNISIA REVEALS HIS DEMOCRACY AGENDA
July 29th, 2021
Middle East Eye
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THE CHIMERA OF PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE ARAB WORLD: A CRITIQUE OF THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS
October 2020
Center for Middle East Studies, University of Denver, Occasional Paper, No. 10
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CONVERSATION WITH TRITA PARSI ON THE CRISIS OF US-IRAN RELATIONS
October 2020
Alternative Radio and Institute for
Policy Studies
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JOE BIDEN’S MIDDLE EAST POLICY
WILL BE SIMILAR TO BARACK OBAMA
October 2020
Middle East Eye
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THE MURDER OF JAMAL KHASHOGGI:
LESSONS FOR US MIDDLE EAST
POLICY
September 18, 2020
Democracy in the Arab World
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AUTHORITARIANISM WINS AGAIN IN
THE MIDDLE EAST, THANKS TO
DONALD TRUMP
January 10th, 2020
Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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HOW IRAN JUSTIFIES ITS VIOLENCE
December 18th, 2019
New York Times
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WHAT DO IRANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS WANT FROM THE WEST?
September 9th, 2019
Siyasa: A Forum on Islamic and Middle East Politics, www.siyasa.us
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DONALD TRUMP AND THE STRANGLING OF PERSIA
July 11th, 2019
Al Jazeera
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IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA AND MODERN HATREDS
December 18th, 2019
New York Times
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REFLECTIONS ON THE FATWA AGAINST SALMAN RUSHDIE
February 13th, 2019
Law and Liberty Forum
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THE AUTHORITARIAN ROOTS OF MUSLIM SECTARIANISM
March 2016
Seminar Magazine
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HOW A NUCLEAR DEAL HELPS DEMOCRACY IN IRAN
Fall 2015
Cairo Review on Global Affairs
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HOW THE NUCLEAR DEAL COULD TRANSFORM IRAN
July 17, 2015
CNN.com
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A THEOLOGY OF MORAL PROGRESS: KHALED ABOU EL FADL’S REASONING WITH GOD
2015
Critical Muslim, no. 14
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WHY SYRIA MATTERS
Spring 2014
Cairo Review of Global Affairs, no. 13
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USE FORCE TO SAVE STARVING SYRIANS
February 10th, 2014
New York Times
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ON SYRIA, SAVAGERY AND SELFDETERMINATION
September 20th, 2013
Open Democracy
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THE ROWHANI CHALLENGE: ELECTORAL AUTHORITARIANISM INSIDE THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
Summer 2013
Cairo Review of Global Affairs, no. 10
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MOSQUE AND STATE AFTER THE ARAB SPRING
December 19th, 2012
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
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