- 12 Mar 2012
BREAKING NEWS DIALOGUE: IRAN AFTER THE ELECTIONS
About the Speakers
SPEAKING FROM WASHINGTON, DC
He is the founder and president of the National Iranian American Council and an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign policy, and the geopolitics of the Middle East. He is the author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States for which he conducted more than 130 interviews with senior Israeli, Iranian and American decision-makers. Treacherous Alliance is the silver medal winner of the 2008 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations
SPEAKING FROM SINGAPORE
Dr. Hudson is Professor Emeritus of International Relations and Arab Studies at Georgetown University where he served as Director for many years. Dr. Hudson has edited and contributed to numerous books, including Middle East Dilemma: The Politics and Economics of Arab Integration (Columbia University Press/CCAS, 1999), The Palestinians: New Directions (CCAS, 1990), and Alternative Approaches to the Arab-Israeli Conflict (CCAS, 1984).
SPEAKING FROM SINGAPORE
Originally from Iran, Navid Fozi has been researching religious minorities in Iran, including his dissertation on the Zoroastrians, a published essay on the Kurdish Ahl-e Haqq and unpublished work on the Baha’is. His new project as a postdoctoral research fellow at MEI explores the contemporary Iranian politics and is entitled “Neo-Iranian Nationalism: Pre-Islamic Grandeur and Shi’a Eschatology in Iranian Contemporary Politics.” He holds a PhD and a Master of Arts in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, from Boston University and University of Wisconsin Madison, respectively; also a Master of Arts in Applied Sociology and a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, both from University of Texas Dallas.
SPEAKING FROM SINGAPORE
Having worked at different senior capacities, Dr. Hooman Peimani’s diversified employment engagements in North America, Europe, West Asia and Asia-Pacific consist of working for academic (e.g., Geneva School of Diplomacy & International Relations) and non-academic entities, including energy corporations (e.g., Nord Stream, Zug/Switzerland), private and public organizations (e.g., Canadian government) and national and international institutions such as UN agencies (e.g., UNICEF, UNCHR, UNRISD and WHO). His employment experience includes over 20 years of research activities working for research institutes such as Jane’s Defence/UK, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Centre for International Cooperation and Security/UK and Arab Petroleum Research Center/France. He also has years of experience as a freelance journalist working for many newspapers (e.g., South China Morning Post and Moscow Times) and news agencies (e.g., Inter Press Service/Berlin, International Relations and Security Network/Zurich and Eurasianet/New York).
