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Mohammad Ataie
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Occupation
Lecturer
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ABOUT
Mohammad Ataie is a writer, journalist, and historian of Iran and the modern Middle East. His research interests include the 1979 revolution, transnational Shi’a politics, Islamic movements, Islamic ecumenicalism, and sectarianism. Ataie earned his PhD in History from the University of Massachusetts. As of September 2020, he will be a research fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University. Prior to his PhD training, he was a diplomatic correspondent at the United Nations. His works have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Guardian, LobeLog, Middle East Policy Journal, Irna, Diplomacy-e Irani, and Syria Comment.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Iranian Studies
Transnationalism
World History
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Modern
Terrorism
19th-21st Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Afghanistan
Iran
Syria
The Levant
Specialties
1979 Revolution
Revolutionary Internationalism
Islamic Ecumenicalism
Languages
Persian (native)
Arabic (advanced)
Abstracts
Internationalist Ecumenical Ulama and the Export of the Iranian Revolution to Lebanon