
Ali Fathollah-Nejad, PhD
@afathollahnejad
Director @CMEG_mideast • Teaching @TheHertieSchool • Fellow @CASSIS_Bonn • Author & Analyst • PhD @SOAS, Postdoc @Harvard • Ex-@BrookingsFP 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷🇮🇷
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Der Historiker Karl Schlögel hat heute - völlig zurecht - den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels erhalten. Hier sehen wir ihn vor knapp 2 Jahren in einem legendären Rededuell mit Sahra Wagenknecht. Bei so viel Expertise blieb ihr nur noch Schnappatmung...


Starvation in Gaza: 'Western public opinion is starting to find this absolutely intolerable' My interview yesterday evening on FRANCE 24 English youtube.com/watch?v=EZlzC8… (See my article: "The Mirage of a Palestinian State" posted yesterday)

“Denial is what allows these atrocities to continue.” In two unprecedented new reports, Israeli rights groups B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم & Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) say Israel is committing genocide – something the govt denies. I spoke with Yuli Novak & Guy Shalev about their conclusions, the criticisms & what

حسین دهباشی، مستندساز، درباره راضی کردن مقامات حکومت پهلوی به شرکت در مصاحبه (۱۳۹۶): به آنها نمیگفتم پروژه صداوسیماست و من حزباللهی هستم. میگفتم شما وطنات رو از دست دادی و سالهاست که وارد کشورت نشدی. ایران رو دوست داری؟ دلت تنگ شده؟ گریه میکردند. میگفتم حالا بیا مصاحبه


Our Senior Fellow Mahdi Ghodsi comments in The Washington Post on how Iran's Revolutionary Guard blocked tech company Divar's stock market listing, noting this economic intimidation causes "capital flight" and regime "collapse." 🔗 Read the article: washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/… #Iran #IRGC

In a new article on our publication platform hosted by Global Policy Journal, Dr. Gesine Weber, Research Fellow with the German Marshall Fund, argues that for the EU, upholding its values is not moral indulgence but strategic necessity. 🔗: globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/12/08/202…

Unser Fellow Emran Feroz schreibt in einem neuen Artikel in der WZ | Wiener Zeitung über Alltag, Jugend, und Journalismus in Afghanistan, wo sich die Machtübernahme der Taliban zum vierten Mal jährt. 🔗 Zum vollständigen Artikel: wienerzeitung.at/a/vier-jahre-t…

Die ersten ausführlichen Empfehlungen meiner Sommerlektüre aus dem Urlaub sind online. Mit dabei: Fawaz Gerges, Ali Fathollah-Nejad, PhD, Hope/Scheck, Kessler, Abu Saif, Dahrendorf und Zweig. Hier lesen und abonnieren: anncathrin.substack.com/p/the-book-iss…



Comments for @TheTimes' Middle East correspondent Samer Al-Atrush on the occasion of the proposals and demands from the Islamic Republic of #Iran's Reform Front, which reflect deep concerns from within the establishment over regime survival. thetimes.com/article/c75dab…

In a new The Times and The Sunday Times article, our Director Ali Fathollah-Nejad, PhD commented on for an end to enrichment by the Islamic Republic's reformist regime faction. Iran could see a temporary halt of its nuclear programme as a way towards striking a deal with the US. 🔗: thetimes.com/article/c75dab…


In Financial Times on the human security alerts ‼️ for El Fasher, Darfur 🇸🇩—> These can’t be loud enough ⚠️ for the civilians trapped in El Fasher ft.com/content/d33138…


Listen to a new episode of Middle East Talks, this time with Gilbert Achcar / جلبير الأشقر to talk about his new book "Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective" Apple podcasts.apple.com/eg/podcast/mid… Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/38JAQ9… Soundcloud on.soundcloud.com/UhJJ1KQOz6CrGu…

In a new interview with BBC NEWS فارسی, our Senior Fellow Behrooz Bayat spoke about recent developments regarding European countries triggering the JCPOA snapback mechanism to reinstall UN sanctions. 🔗Watch the full interview (in Persian):

'Ali Fathollah-Nejad, director of Center for Middle East and Global Order (CMEG), echoes these points. “Several Iranian figures have made clear that #snapback #sanctions would undermine #Iran’s globally operated oil-selling shadow fleet, which still carries an air of semi-legality,” he told AL-Monitor.'

In a new article on AL-Monitor, our Director Ali Fathollah-Nejad, PhD and our Senior Fellow and Economist Mahdi Ghodsi comment on sanctions and the risks facing Iran’s economy. 🔗 : al-monitor.com/originals/2025…