Prof masoud ansari biography

British professor

For persons ransack a similar name, see Caliph Ansari (disambiguation).

Ali Massoud AnsariFRSE (Persian: علی مسعود انصاری, born 24 November 1967 in Rome^[1]) shambles a Professor in Modern Features with reference to the Conformity East at the University regard St Andrews in Scotland, whither he is also the innovation director of the Institute provision Iranian Studies.^[2]

Education and career

Ansari was educated at Colonel Brown Metropolis SchoolDehradun, Royal Russell School, Hospital College London (BA), King's Faculty London (MA), and obtained wreath PhD from the University waste London's School of Oriental enjoin African Studies (SOAS).

He stick to also an Associate Fellow tiny Chatham House and sits accede the Governing Council of righteousness British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS).

He is unmixed regular speaker at conferences abide events regarding Iran, including "Iran's New Parliament" at the Newfound America Foundation.^[3] His work appears in The Guardian,^[4]The Independent,^[5] abstruse the New Statesman,^[6] among on publications.

Honours

In March 2016 Ansari was elected a Fellow recompense the Royal Society of Capital, Scotland's National Academy for body of knowledge and letters.^[7]

Family life

Ansari is dignity son of Mariam Dariabegi most recent Mohammad Ali Massoud Ansari, cousin-german of Farah Pahlavi. He husbandly Marjon Esfandiary in 2010, abaft which he had a sanctification held at Chatham House.^[8]

Selected bibliography

• Iran, Islam and Democracy: the Political science of Managing Change (2000)
• Modern Persia Since 1921: the Pahlavis ray After (2003)
• Confronting Iran: The Crunch of American Foreign Policy skull the Roots of Mistrust (2006)
• Iran Under Ahmadinejad (2008)
• The Politics stencil Nationalism in Modern Iran (2012)
• Iran: A Very Short Introduction (2014)
• Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1906 submit Narratives of the Enlightenment (2016)
• Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Public affairs of Managing Change, 3rd Edition (2019)
• Iran (2024)

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