Middle East 4 ChangeArdeshir Mehrdad
Ardeshir Mehrdad is a scholar and veteran political activist. A former editor of iran bulletin-Middle East Forum, he has written extensively, in Farsi and English, on the nature of political Islam and the structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Selected recent publications in English:
Iran: Three waves of urban protests, 1992 – 2019
Squeezing Iran: Part 2. The Iranian perspective
Squeezing Iran: Part 1, Trump’s project in the Middle East
Iran: Observation on the protests of December 2018: Part 2, Prospects and Pitfalls
Iran: Observations on the protests of December 2018: Part 1, the watershed moment
Interview with Prof Aziz Al-Azmeh: Civil War in Syria (2016)
Trump and the Middle East: A talk with Ardeshir Mehrdad
Donald Trump’s foreign policy: the “logic of an illogical mind”
Iran: Democracy and the coming parliamentary elections
Political Islam, Part 3: How it effects society
Political Islam, class and capital. Part 2: Manifestation of centre-periphery crisis
Political Islam, class and capital Part 1: what are its common features? This article appeared originally in iran bulletin in 1993 and Critique. Un updated version was posted on Middleast4change.
Interview with Alex Callinicos: the imperial assauly on the Middle East (2006)
Between Iraq’s colonialist and Islamist quagmire a ‘third way’ is hard but possible -2004