PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL ESSAYS

MIGHT THE IRGC STAGE A COUP IN IRAN?

January 19, 2023

Carnegie Middle East Center

ANWAR IBRAHIM: A PROFILE IN COURAGE

December 7, 2022

New Lines Magazine

ON ARAB DICTATORS AND IRANIAN PROTESTS: A THIRD REVOLUTIONARY WAVE?

October 31st, 2022

Democracy in Exile

ON IRAN, WOMEN AND REVOLUTION

September 28th, 2022

Democracy in Exile

NOTES ON ANTI-SEMITISM, ISRAEL, AND SALMAN RUSHDIE

September 19th, 2022

Jadaliyya

JOE BIDEN, NEOIMPERIALISM AND THE MIDDLE EAST

July 20th, 2022

Middle East Eye

JOE BIDEN'S TEPID RESPONSE TO TUNISIA REVEALS HIS DEMOCRACY AGENDA

July 29th, 2021

Middle East Eye

THE CHIMERA OF PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE ARAB WORLD: A CRITIQUE OF THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS

October 2020

Center for Middle East Studies, University of Denver, Occasional Paper, No. 10

JOE BIDEN'S MIDDLE EAST POLICY WILL BE SIMILAR TO BARACK OBAMA

October 2020

Middle East Eye

THE MURDER OF JAMAL KHASHOGGI: LESSONS FOR US MIDDLE EAST POLICY

September 18, 2020

Democracy in the Arab World

AUTHORITARIANISM WINS AGAIN IN THE MIDDLE EAST, THANKS TO DONALD TRUMP

January 10th, 2020

Globe and Mail (Toronto)

DONALD TRUMP AND THE STRANGLING OF PERSIA

July 11th, 2019

Al Jazeera

WHAT DO IRANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS WANT FROM THE WEST?

September 9th, 2019

Siyasa: A Forum on Islamic and Middle East Politics, www.siyasa.us

HOW IRAN JUSTIFIES ITS VIOLENCE

December 18th, 2019

New York Times

CONVERSATION WITH TRITA PARSI ON THE CRISIS OF US-IRAN RELATIONS

October 2020

Alternative Radio and Institute for Policy Studies

IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA AND MODERN HATREDS

December 18th, 2019

New York Times

REFLECTIONS ON THE FATWA AGAINST SALMAN RUSHDIE

February 13th, 2019

Law and Liberty Forum

A THEOLOGY OF MORAL PROGRESS: KHALED ABOU EL FADL’S REASONING WITH GOD

2015

Critical Muslim, no. 14

HOW THE NUCLEAR DEAL COULD TRANSFORM IRAN

July 17, 2015

CNN.com

THE AUTHORITARIAN ROOTS OF MUSLIM SECTARIANISM

March 2016

Seminar Magazine

WHY SYRIA MATTERS

Spring 2014

Cairo Review of Global Affairs, no. 13

USE FORCE TO SAVE STARVING SYRIANS

February 10th, 2014

New York Times

ON SYRIA, SAVAGERY AND SELF-DETERMINATION

September 20th, 2013

Open Democracy

THE ROWHANI CHALLENGE: ELECTORAL AUTHORITARIANISM INSIDE THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC

Summer 2013

Cairo Review of Global Affairs, no. 10

MOSQUE AND STATE AFTER THE ARAB SPRING

December 19th, 2012

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding

HOW A NUCLEAR DEAL HELPS DEMOCRACY IN IRAN

Fall 2015

Cairo Review on Global Affairs