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Vali Nasr

Vali Nasr Books

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Vali Nasr is an Iranian-American academic and author specializing in Middle Eastern politics and Islamic studies. Born on December 20, 1960, he has made substantial contributions to the understanding of the region's complex political and social dynamics through his extensive writings and research.

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“We live in an age of globalisation, but also one of identity politics. It is as if our world is expanding and contacting at the same time.”

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Book:The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

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“We live in an age of globalisation, but also one of identity politics. It is as if our world is expanding and contracting at the same time.”

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Book:The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

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“A timely and incisive look into the history, politics, and future of the Muslim Brotherhood by the foremost expert on Islamism in Egypt. Carrie Rosefsky Wickham has constructed a detailed account of how the Brotherhood confronts the challenges before it, and why and when it embraces change. Everyone concerned with the future of Egypt should read this book.”

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“What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region.”

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“I think President Barack Obama came to office with quite fundamental understandings in his mind about what's possible and what's not possible in the Middle East. The first, I would say, revolutionary breakthrough that he introduced is that the Middle East doesn't matter to American geostrategy as much as we think.”

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“President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.”

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“My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.”

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Born: December 20, 1960
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