Mahmood Sariolghalam (Persian: محمود سریع‌القلم; born 1959) is a professor of international relations at the School of Economics and Political Science in Shahid Beheshti University (formerly Iran National University) since 1987.

He is currently a professor at Loyola Marymount University continuing to teach international relations.

He's also a non-resident scholar at ASERI (Italy) and the Middle East Institute.

[3] His political novel on post-revolutionary Iran, Battered Blossoms (in English) is in the final stage of completion.

His current research focuses on the political psychology of authoritarianism and conceptual roots of Iranian foreign policy.