Authors

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

Dr. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, a Senior Lecturer in the Modern History of the Middle East at the University of York, is an interdisciplinary scholar of the Middle East, working at the intersections of international political theory, intellectual and political history, postcolonial theory, and international relations. Before joining York, he was a Lecturer in the Contemporary Politics and Modern History of the Middle East at Goldsmiths, University of London. Eskandar was also a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2016 to 2019, where he received his doctorate in Middle Eastern Studies in 2014. His research explores the global entanglements of revolutionary movements, with a particular focus on the modern history of Iran and the broader Middle East. He is deeply engaged in theories and practices of decolonisation, examining how anti-colonial and postcolonial thought has shaped political ideologies, movements, and state practices across the Global South.

His book Revolution and its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran (2019) examines Iran’s post-revolutionary reform movement, and he has co-edited Political Parties in the Middle East (2019) and an expanded edition of Fred Halliday’s Iran: Dictatorship and Development (2024). A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is also a series editor for Radical Histories of the Middle East and contributes to publications such as JadaliyyaThe GuardianNew Left ReviewJacobin, and Al Jazeera.

ARTICLES BY Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi