Ali Mozaffari

Ali Mozaffari (PhD) is a Senior Fellow of the Australian Research Council with Alfred Deakin Institute, at Australia’s Deakin University. His transdisciplinary research is in Iranian studies, heritage studies (with a specific focus on West and Central Asia) and the politics of architecture. He has conducted well over a decade of fieldwork in Iran. Mozaffari is the co-editor of Heritage movements in Asia: cultural heritage activism, politics, and identity (Berghahn 2020), World Heritage in Iran: Perspectives on Pasargadae (Routledge 2016) and Forming National Identity in Iran: The Idea of Homeland Derived from Ancient Persian and Islamic Imaginations of Place (IB Tauris 2014).

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August 03, 2020
Plan To Build 'National Museum' In Khomeini's Mausoleum Sets Up Scene For Personality Cult

Iran wants to build a second "national museum" under the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic.
January 18, 2020
Far From A Rallying Cry, Death Of Divisive Soleimani Foreshadows Iran’s Decline

The U..S. killing of the Islamic Republic's top general remains one of the most significant and impactful recent events in the Middle East, with repercussions to be felt for years to come.

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Ali Mozaffari

Produced by Ali Mozaffari

Plan To Build 'National Museum' In Khomeini's Mausoleum Sets Up Scene For Personality Cult

Far From A Rallying Cry, Death Of Divisive Soleimani Foreshadows Iran’s Decline