Naser Ghobadzadeh lectures at the Department of the Government and I.R., the University of Sydney. He completed his PhD on political Islam and the state in Iran at the University of Sydney. He has worked as editor-in-chief of the foreign policy service at the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA), communication officer with the UNDP and head of the Information Resource Centre (IRC), UNICEF office in Tehran.

Naser’s Master’s thesis was awarded by the Ministry of Science (Iran) as the best dissertation at the 2003 Annual Festival of the Best Research. His book A Study of People’s Divergence from Ruling System scrutinises value changes and their impact on Iran’s politico-religious mosaic. His articles have been published in internationally refereed journals such as Democratization,Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Philosophy & Social Criticism and Discourse. Researching at the intersection of religion and politics, Naser’s interests lie in the study of political Islam, state-religion relations, secularism and Middle East and Iranian politics.

Location

Sydney, NSW, 2008 Australia

Disciplines

• Humanities
• Religion
• Political Science

Affiliation

The University of Syeny