Lecturer: Dr Hossein Heirani-Moghaddam

Dr Hossein Heirani-Moghaddam joined the Centre in 2007. He has a BA and MA in Political Science and Islamic Studies from the Imam Sadeq University in Tehran and a Doctorate in Oriental Studies/Politics from the University of Oxford. He has taught history and politics of modern Iran as well as Persian language and literature at the University of Oxford, and international relations theories and Iranian foreign policy at the Faculty of Political Science, ISU. His main academic interests include international politics of contemporary Iran, the study of political and religious discourses in Iran’s modern history and Persian classical and modern language and literature. His recent publications include ‘Anglo-Iranian Conflict over the Disputed Islands in the Persian Gulf: Constraints on Rapprochement’, in Vanessa Martin, (ed.) Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800, London: Routledge/Curzon, 2005; ‘Sufism: Iranian Style’, Fu Jen International Religious Studies, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2008.