Hossein Bastani Hossein Bastani is an academic researcher and investigative journalist with BBC Persian, specialising in Iranian political affairs. Over the past two decades, he has produced dozens of investigative television programmes and authored more than two thousand in-depth reports and analytical articles on Iran’s domestic and foreign policy.
Professor Sanjay Srivastava Urban anthropology; consumer cultures; masculinity studies; middle-class cultures; ethnographies of the state and capital; India.
Dr Edwige Fortier Research interests include the Middle East and North Africa, international development, civil society, transitions from authoritarian rule, democratisation, neoliberalism, vulnerable and marginalised groups, human rights, multilateralism, non-governmental organisations and HIV/Aids.