Position:

Faculty Member

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute

Email:

hossein.heiranimoghaddam@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• International politics of contemporary Iran
• Political and religious discourses in Iran's modern history
• Persian classical and modern language and literature

Current Projects:

• Iranian post-revolutionary foreign policy
• Political history of the Persian Gulf Islands

Courses Taught:

• Iranian Modern History
• Introduction to Modern Middle East, Persian Language and Literature (Classical and Modern)
• Shiite Islam in World Politics

Recent Publications:

• Iran: Theo-Democracy on Trial, Asian Currents, July 2009
• Sufism: Iranian Style, Fu Jen International Religious Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2008
• Iran-US Standoff: Prospects for Rapprochement, Bulletin, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, ANU, Vol. 14 Number 2, 2007
• The Anglo-Iranian Relations over the Disputed Islands in the Gulf: Constraints on Rapprochement, in Vanessa Martin, ed., Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800, Routledge/Curzon, 2005