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| People Ali Ansari Professor of Modern History Director, Institute for Iranian Studies University of St. Andrews Ali Ansari is a Professor of Modern History at the University of St. Andrews, and Associate Fellow of the Middle East Programme with reference to Iran at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He is also the Director of the Institue for Iranian Studies at St. Andrews. In addition to numerous journal articles and edited volume chapters, he is the author of Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy And the Next Great Crisis in the Middle East (forthcoming 2006), Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change (2000, second edition forthcoming 2006), and The History of Modern Iran 1921: The Pahlavis and After (2003). Ansari’s teaching and research interests are the development of the state in the modern Middle East; ideology, myth, and nation building; social and intellectual history; and Islam and the West. During the academic year of 2004 he was a Lecturer in Middle East History at the University of Exeter. From 1998-2003, he was Lecturer in Political History of the Middle East at the University of Durham. He was Lecturer in the Political History of the Middle East and Central Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) from 1997-1998. |
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