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“Six months after Israel launched its attack under the banner of self-defense and the stated objective of destroying Hamas, Israel is no closer to achieving its military goals,” Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh, a Middle Eastern politics expert at Deakin University in Australia, told Sputnik.  Read Article

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February 12th, 2021

UK House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee

In November 2020, MESF Convenor Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh made an invited witness statement to the UK House of Lords International […]

February 12th, 2021

Iran Defends Hosting Taliban Delegation Despite Decades-Old Attacks In Afghanistan

Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh recently provided commentary on Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty. Find out more here.

September 27th, 2019

Prof. Akbarzadeh named Australia’s top researcher in Middle East and Islamic Studies

Prof. Shahram Akbarzadeh has been named Australia’s top researcher in Middle East and Islamic Studies for 2019 by The Australian’s […]

May 3rd, 2019

Meeting with former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd

On 2 May 2019 Professor Akbarzadeh hosted a roundtable discussion at Alfred Deakin Institute with former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd […]

April 11th, 2019

Hate speech and Acts of terror

On 8 April 2019 Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh hosted the panel on ‘After Christchurch: The relationship between hate speech violence and […]

March 4th, 2019

Proxy wars the focus of ADI visit to Pakistan

Experts in Central Asian and Middle Eastern politics, Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh, Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed, and Dr Dara Conduit, are […]

November 3rd, 2018

Trump and Middle East Conference

Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh convened the biennial Middle East Studies Forum conference, examining Trump and the Middle East (Deakin University, Australia).  […]

August 27th, 2018

Iran gains ground as the Middle East descends into chaos

Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh gave a paper at the World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) on Iran.

August 2nd, 2018

New article in the Sydney Morning Herald – Trump’s real Iran agenda: regime change on the cheap

Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh published an OpEd in the Sydney Morning Herald on President Trump’s regime change agenda in Iran. Read […]

July 26th, 2018

New OpEd – How Trump has made Iran’s Rouhani a Hostage of the Hardliners

Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh published a new piece on Informed Comment on the impact that Trump’s foreign policy is having on […]