Ali Fathollah-Nejad is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center. He is also an associate at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center’s Iran Project and an associate fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Program of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), acting as the latter’s Iran expert. His research focus lies on Iran, Western foreign policy towards the Middle East, and the emerging world order.
He is also a research associate at the Centre of International Cooperation and Development Research (CECID) of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Previously, he was an expert in culture and foreign Policy with the Institute for International Cultural Relations (ifa), writing the major study on Germany’s foreign cultural and educational policy towards Iran after the nuclear deal.
Fathollah-Nejad holds a PhD in International Relations from the Department of Development Studies at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), with a dissertation on Iran’s international relations in the 2000s in a changing world order. He has taught courses on globalization and development in West Asia and North Africa, contemporary Iran and the Arab Revolts among others at Freie Universität (FU) Berlin’s Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics, the University of Westminster and SOAS.
A frequent speaker at political forums (including the European Parliament, the House of Commons, the French National Assembly, the University of Law in London and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna) and academic conferences, he also regularly contributes to international media outlets. In addition to two monographs on the post-“9/11” U.S.–Iran conflict, he has written about 100 analytical pieces in English, German and French – with translations into almost a dozen languages. His work has been published worldwide, e.g. in The Guardian, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Politik (IP), openDemocracy, World Policy Journal, Huffington Post (France, Quebec & Germany editions), Géostratégiques, Insight Turkey, Iranian Diplomacy and the Palestine–Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture.
Ali Fathollah-Nejad is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center. He is also an associate at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center’s Iran Project and an associate fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Program of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), acting as the latter’s Iran expert. His research focus lies on Iran, Western foreign policy towards the Middle East, and the emerging world order.
He is also a research associate at the Centre of International Cooperation and Development Research (CECID) of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Previously, he was an expert in culture and foreign Policy with the Institute for International Cultural Relations (ifa), writing the major study on Germany’s foreign cultural and educational policy towards Iran after the nuclear deal.
Fathollah-Nejad holds a PhD in International Relations from the Department of Development Studies at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), with a dissertation on Iran’s international relations in the 2000s in a changing world order. He has taught courses on globalization and development in West Asia and North Africa, contemporary Iran and the Arab Revolts among others at Freie Universität (FU) Berlin’s Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics, the University of Westminster and SOAS.
A frequent speaker at political forums (including the European Parliament, the House of Commons, the French National Assembly, the University of Law in London and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna) and academic conferences, he also regularly contributes to international media outlets. In addition to two monographs on the post-“9/11” U.S.–Iran conflict, he has written about 100 analytical pieces in English, German and French – with translations into almost a dozen languages. His work has been published worldwide, e.g. in The Guardian, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Politik (IP), openDemocracy, World Policy Journal, Huffington Post (France, Quebec & Germany editions), Géostratégiques, Insight Turkey, Iranian Diplomacy and the Palestine–Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture.
