Fazeli received his PhD in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
[3] Fazeli's main research undertaking has been the demonstration of modernity and the modernisation process in Iran.
"Modernization or Contemporization of the Iranian Culture" (original title in Persian: “مدرن یا امروزی شدن فرهنگ ایران”), is a collection of his ethnographic case studies narrating the process of Iran's modernization through the prism of cultural studies.
The book consists of two sections: “Reinvention or Contemporization of Traditions” and “Culture’s Mediazation and Technologization”, with nine chapters aiming to cast a look on the process of Iran's modernization, with his focus mainly on the 1380s (2001–2011).
Fazeli has written more than one hundred articles for scholarly journals and dozens editorials for venues such as "Sharq Newspaper".