Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Behnam Amini is a graduate student at York University in the program of Social and Political Thought. He has been actively following the political developments regarding Iranian politics and the Kurdish question. As a freelance journalist, Behnam has written a number of articles in various Persian journals. His research is mainly focused on the political economy of modern states and the question of ethnicities in the Middle East.
Discipline
Other
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
Kurdish Studies
Theory
Political Economy
State Formation
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Kurdistan
Specialties
State Theory
Kurdish Nationalism
Colonialism And Decolonization
Languages
Kurdish (native)
Persian (fluent)
Turkish (intermediate)
English (fluent)
Education
MA
| 2015
| Social and Political Thought
| York University
MA
| 2008
| Social sciences
| Allameh Tabatabae University
BA
| 2004
| Social sciences
| University of Tehran
Abstracts
Understanding the Implications of Transcending Nationalism: Democratic Confederalism and the Question of Separatism
Decolonization and the Nation-State: The Anti-Colonial Character of Abdullah Ocalan’s Idea of Democratic Nation
