Centre for Iranian Studies
Associate Member
- Name:
- Dr Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad
- Email address:
- sz10@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4422
- Address:
- SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 587
- Academic Support Hours:
- By email appointment
Biography
Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad has designed, taught and examined a large number of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on film, media and cultural Studies at SOAS (University of London), at the Institute of Ismaili Studies as part of a joint MA programme with UCL (Institute Of Education) and at the University of Roehampton. These include modules such as ‘Iranian media and film’, ‘Communication, Culture and Politics in the Middle East’, ‘Transnational media and diasporic communities’, ‘Cultural Encounters, Material Culture and Narratives’, and ‘Islam and the media’. In the same institutions, he has also acquired expertise in supervising students at undergraduate, taught masters and PhD level.
His research interests and activities span different genres, authors, methodologies and theoretical frameworks. Although his publications are broadly on Iranian cinema and media, they demonstrate expertise in areas as varied as media and film studies, anthropology and Middle Eastern studies. His publications include works such as the Routledge monograph The Politics of Iranian Cinema (2010). His research interests include: Diasporas and transnational media; Islamophobia; Shi’i Islam in the West; Third Cinema; Media in the Middle East with particular focus on Iran.
Zeydabadi-Nejad has developed several successful research and public engagement collaborations with colleagues inside and outside his host institutions. For example, he organized and secured funding for a series of events around the works of the renowned Iranian director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad in 2008. In November 2018 he secured funding for and organized an event on Karestan, a documentary film series at SOAS with the London Middle East Institute.
He completed a PhD in media studies at University of London (SOAS) in 2006 and studied anthropology in Australia at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, graduating in 2000.
Saeed is also a Research Associate with SOAS’s Centre for Global Media and Communications.