Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is Reader in Comparative Politics and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and the Chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute. After studying in Hamburg and Washington DC, and receiving his MPhil and PhD at Cambridge, Adib-Moghaddam was named as the University of Oxford’s first Jarvis Doctorow Fellow in International Relations and Peace Studies at St. Edmund Hall and the Department of Politics and International Relations. He has authored a number of books, including “A Critical Introduction to Khomeini” (ed. 2014); On the Arab Revolts and the Iranian Revolution: Power and Resistance Today (2013); and Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic (2008).