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Danny Postel

Danny Postel is Assistant Director of the Middle East and North African Studies Program at Northwestern University and the former Associate Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies. He is the author of Reading ‘Legitimation Crisis’ in Tehran (2006) and co-editor of three books, The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future (2011), The Syria Dilemma (2013), and Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (2017).

Articles

A video of our conversation.
Danny Postel

An interview with activist and intellectual Yassin al-Haj Saleh.

Danny Postel, Nader Hashemi, Yassin al-Haj Saleh

This book focuses on the ethical and political dilemmas at the heart of the debate about Syria and the possibility of humanitarian intervention in today’s world.

Danny Postel, Nader Hashemi

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