Qualifications & background
PhD Discourses and counter-discourses of Iranian national identity during Khatami's presidency (1997-2005), 2008, University of Exeter
MA in Middle East Politics, University of Exeter
BA (Hons) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
Professional membership
British International Studies Association (BISA)
The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)
Middle East Studies Association of America (MESA)
International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS)
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)
British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
Other academic activities
Conference Papers
'Khatami's Islamist-Iranian discourse of national identity', Association for the Study of Ethnicities and Nationalism (ASEN) Annual Conference: London School of Economics (April 2009)
'Discources of national identity during Ahmadinezhad's presidency', British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) Annual Workshop: University of Manchester (January 2009)
'Democratisation in Iran: A role for the EU?', ESRC EU Democracy Promotion in the Middle East Research Group: London School of Economics (January 2009)
'National identity and Iran as an International Actor in Khatami’s Iran' British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference: University of Exeter (December 2008)
'Nationalist discourse in the Khatami Era', History & Myth and Literature Workshop, Sponsored by the British Institute of Persian Studies: University of St Andrews (February 2008)
'Ethno-nationalism and the Iranian “nation-state”’, Pre-Conference Colloquium: The Challenge of Ethno-nationalism, Beyond the Nation Conference: Queen's University, Belfast (September 2007)
'Khatami’s discourse of national identity’, British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) Nationalism in Iran Workshop: Vienna, Austria (April 2007)
‘Discourses and counter-discourses of Iranian national identity during the Khatami period’, Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference: University of Bath (April 2007)
‘Contesting constructions of national identity during the Khatami period’, 8th Annual British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) Workshop: School of Oriental and African Studies, London (December 2006)
'Culture and the construction of Iranian national identity’, Middle East Studies Association of America (MESA): Boston, USA (November 2006)
‘Contesting Iranian national identity in the era of reform’, International Society of Iranian Studies (ISIS) Biannual Conference: School of Oriental and African Studies, London (August 2006)