Anoushiravan Ehteshami

Anoushiravan "Anoush" Ehteshami (Persian: انوشیروان احتشامی) is the Professor and was Joint Director of the ESRC Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World at Durham University.

[1] Ehteshami is the Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Chair in International Relations and Director of the HH Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Programme in International Relations, Regional Politics and Security.

He was also Joint Director of the RCUK-the funded center of excellence, the Durham-Edinburgh-Manchester Universities’ Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), whose research focus since 2012 has been on the ‘Arab World in Transition’.

He was Vice-President and Chair of the Council of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) 2000-2003.

[citation needed] In addition to having published 21 books and monographs, he also has over 90 articles and edited volumes to his name.