Maziyar Ghiabi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paris School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) where he is member of the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire des Enjeux Sociaux (IRIS). He obtained his doctorate in Politics at the University of Oxford (St Antony’s College) where he was a Wellcome Trust Scholar in Society & Ethics (2013-17). He holds an MPhil (Distinction) in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford, an MA (magna cum laude) in International Relations from the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari. Maziyar is a political ethnographer who has worked on drugs policy and addiction in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In October 2016, he organised a two-day symposium on ‘Drugs, Politics and Society in the Global South’, supported by the Wellcome Trust. Maziyar collaborates also on a side-project on revolts, displacement and civil war across Mediterranean, on which he has published in Middle East Critique and other scholarly venues. He has previously been Visiting Researcher at SciencesPO-Paris (CERI) during 2014/2015 and Teaching Fellow at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) in 2016, Visiting Researcher at the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2017. His webpage can be found:
Experience
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2017–2018Postdoctoral research fellow, Paris School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
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2013–2017DPhil Politics, University of Oxford
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2014–2016Tutor in Middle East Politics, University of Oxford
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2011–2013MPhil, University of Oxford
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2008–2010Master International Relations, University of Venice Ca' Foscari
Education
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2017University of Oxford, DPhil Politics
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2013University of Oxford, MPhil Modern Middle Eastern Studies (Distinction)
Publications
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2016Passive, Silent and Revolutionary: The "Arab Spring" Revisited, Middle East Critique
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2014Drugs and Revolution in Iran: Islamic Devotion, Revolutionary Zeal and Republican Means, Iranian Studies
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2013The Strait of Hormuz: History of an Area of Geostrategic Power, Ayiné
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2012The Arab of Southwest Iran: Issues of the Balance of Power, Euroasian Studies
Grants and Contracts
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2013Society & Ethics
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- Funding Source:
- Wellcome Trust
- Paris, Tehran, Venice, Beirut
- Website
- @MaziGhiabi
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
