Rasool Nafisi is an academic and Middle East expert living in Vienna, Virginia. His latest (co-authored) book “The Rise of Passdaran,” a monograph on the social, Political, and economic roles of the Guardian of Revolution in Iran was published by the Rand Corporation in April 2009. His other coauthored book “The Cultures of the Middle East” will be published shortly by the Globe Publishers. He is a regular contributor to various news agencies and journals including Jane’s Islamic Digest and Jane’s Intelligence Digest. He has often consulted as a source for analysis and insight by major news organizations such as the New York Times, and the Associated Press. He is working on a major article for the Foreign Policy journal on the clerical politics in Iran to be published shortly.

Nafisi has a degree in law from Tehran University and a PhD from the Florida State University. He has been teaching Sociology and Comparative Religions at Strayer University since 1988.

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