Shahram Akbarzadeh
Associate Professor in Politics
Director, Center for Muslim Minorities
and Islam Policy Studies,
School of Political & Social Inquiry,
Monash University
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Caufield East
Victoria 3145, Australia
(t) +61-3-9905-4280
(f) +61 3-9903-2795
Shahram.Akbarzadeh@arts.monash.edu.au
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Areas of Expertise
Muslim Politics, Iran, Central Asia, US-Arab Relations
Assoc.Prof. Akbarzadeh is Director of the Centre for Muslim Minorities and Islam Policy Studies (CMMIPS) and researches the politics of Central Asia and the Middle East, political Islam, and US relations with the Muslim world. In 2000 Assoc.Prof. Akbarzadeh was the Middle East Studies conference co-convener and served as the Central and West Asia Councillor for the Asian Studies Association of Australia (1999-2004). He has promoted Asian studies through contacts with industry and the academia by research and publication. He guest edited a special issue of Asian Studies Review on the Middle East (Vol.25, No.2, 2001) and a special issue of the Journal of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies on Globalisation (Vol. 5, No.2, 2000). He has published in many refereed journals. Among his latest publications are a co-edited book on Muslim Communities in Australia, and a co-authored book on Tajikistan. Between 1999 and 2004 he co-edited the internationally refereed journal of Global Change, Peace & Security (formerly Pacifica Review), published by Taylor and Francis in the United Kingdom.
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