Centre for Iranian Studies

Dr Mehdi Beyad

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Roles
Centre for Iranian Studies PhD Student Associate Member Senior Teaching Fellow
Qualifications
BA (Hons), History (King's College London); MSc Middle East Politics (SOAS)
Building
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office
299a
Email address
mb121@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title
A Claim to Space: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry as Geopolitical Imaginary in Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran
Support hours
Thursdays 2-3pm or by appointment

Research interests

  • Islam and politics
  • Comparative philosophies and political thought
  • International politics of the Middle East
  • Global history
  • State formation
  • Decoloniality
  • Central/South America
  • Political economy
  • International historical sociology
  • African American history and politics

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