Centre for Iranian Studies
PhD Student Associate Member
Department of Politics and International Studies
Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Name:
- Dr Mehdi Beyad
- Email address:
- mehdi_beyad@soas.ac.uk
- Address:
- SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 299a
- Academic Support Hours:
- Thursdays 2-3pm or by appointment
- Thesis title:
- A Claim to Space: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry as Geopolitical Imaginary in Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran
- Year of Study:
- 3
Internal Supervisors
Conferences
- "Geopolitics and Identity: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry in Ba'thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran" - Order and Contestation: Re-thinking the Political, SOAS, University of London (June 2016)
- Frantz Fanon and Ali Shari'ati on Culture and Authenticity" - New Directions for Political Thought, SOAS, University of London (February 2016)
- Political Authority, Geopolitics and the Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry in Ba'thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran", New Approaches to Studying the Middle East, BRISMES Conference, King's College London (June 2018)