Assistant Supervisor

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

- Nonviolence International, Washington DC, Senior Research Fellow Current Employer

- Middle East Institute, Research Assistant, Leadership Development

Program Internship 2012

- University of California, Santa Barbara, Instructor Sept 2010 – July 2011

- Iranian Parliament Research Center, Cultural Studies Office Researcher July 2009 – July 2010

- Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, TV Program Supervisor/Advisor Oct 2008 – July 2009

- Hamshahri Institution, Tehran Municipality, Writer and Translator Sept 2006 – Oct 2008

- Hamshahri Mah, Iran, Writer and Translator (Socio-political section) Feb 2006 – Oct 2006

- Hamshahri Daily Newspaper, Iran, Editor in Chief Feb 2006 – Oct 2006

- Academy of Sciences, Iran, Philosophy Researcher 2006

- Tarhe Nohe (publication/think tank), Iran, Chief Coordinator Mar 2002 - Jan 2006

- Thought Club, Iran, Translation Team Supervisor, Writer, Translator 2001

- Tehran Univ, Iran Univ, Sharif Univ, and Univ of California Santa Barbara, Instructor: English, Persian, Philosophy Varies, 2003-2011

EDUCATION

- George Mason Univ (Fairfax, VA), MS, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Fall 2013

- Univ of Tehran, Iran, MA, Philosophy Graduated June 2006

- Univ of Tehran, Iran, BA, Philosophy Graduated May 2003

AWARDS AND HONORS

- Trent Lott Leadership scholarship, Univ of Mississippi for internship support, 2012

- Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant 2010-2011

- Top student, selected by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology 2009

PUBLICATIONS (INCOMPLETE LIST)

“New Iranian Cabinet Nominees: Building Bridges Between Factions to Yield Reform,” Huffington Post, August 2o13

“Iran's Newly Elected President, a Double-Edged Sword for Washington,” Huffington Post, July 2013

“Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat” (Book Review), BBC Persian, April 2013

“Obama’s Second Term, World is No Longer our Problem,” BBC Persian, Feb 2013

“Domino Theory and the Syria Crisis,” BBC Persian, Jan 2013

“Chuck Hagel: A Change in American Foreign Policy,” BBC Persian, Jan 2013

“Philosophizing is Absolutely a Human Activity,” BBC Persian, Nov 2012

“A Critique of Slavoj Žižek,” BBC Persian, Aug 2012

“Mostafa Malekian: Beyond the Religious Intellectual Movement,” BBC Persian, July 2012

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