In this video, Security in Context's Omar Dahi interviews Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi about Iranian foreign policy since the Al-Aqsa Operation by Hamas.
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a Senior Lecturer in the History of the Middle East at the University of York. He is a historian of West Asia (Middle East), with a particular focus on the modern intellectual and political history of Iran and the wider Shi'i Muslim world. In disciplinary terms, he works at the intersection of intellectual and political history, the history of political thought, and postcolonial theory. Sadeghi-Boroujerdi has also extensively researched and published on the history of Iranian intellectuals, political militants and clandestine organisations during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the intellectual lineages of “Third Worldism” in modern Iran.