Selected Short Articles, Interviews, & Videos

  • Big World Podcast discussion of what happened to Iran’s Mahsa Amini/ Women, Life, Freedom movement, including discussion of diaspora politics and role. Listen here

  • “Understanding How Middle Eastern Populations Experience the Human Rights Framework in Practice” Q&A on “Human Rights as Mockery of Morality, Manifesting Morality and Moral Maze” (Synopsis and discussion of Egypt, Iran, and Gaza) Read here

  • “Iran’s Protests, State Anti-Imperialist Branding, and the Dual Saviorism of International Human Rights,” University of Wisconsin Madison Human Rights Program Panel Presentation (October 17, 2022). Watch here.

  • “Four Things to Know About Ongoing Protests in Iran,” American University (September 26, 2022). Read here.

  • “Human Rights & The Middle East,” Big World Podcast Interview (2020). Listen here.

  • “The Middle East’s New Human Rights Landscape,” Foreign Policy (2012). Read here.

  • “Cairo Optimism: ‘The People Are Now Part of the Equation,’” OpenDemocracy (2012). Read here.

  • “George Bush and the Turn to Human Rights in the Middle East,” OpenDemocracy (2011). Read here.