The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and The Dubai Initiative will host a Directors’ Seminar with Vali Nasr, Senior Fellow at The Dubai Initiative and both professor of international politics and associate director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, on Thursday, December 6th, 2007.
Dr. Nasr is an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and has briefed the White House, the Congress, the U.S. Department of State, the National Security Council, and the U.S. Department of Defense on Middle East issues. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor and was profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. His interviews and expert commentary have also been used in newspapers and new programs around the world.
He is the author of five books: The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future (W.W. Norton, 2006); Democracy in Iran (Oxford University Press, 2006); The Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (Oxford University Press, 2001); Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism (Oxford University Press, 1996); and The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama`at-i Islami of Pakistan (University of California Press, 1994). He is editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2003); and the author of numerous articles in academic journals and encyclopedias.
Dr. Nasr received his BA from Tufts University in international relations summa cum laude. He earned his MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in international economics and Middle East studies in 1984 and his PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology in 1991.
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