Institutional AffiliationÂ
Associate Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver.
Director, Center for Middle East Studies.
Education
- PhD, University of Toronto
- MA, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University
- BA (Honors), University of Western Ontario
Regional and Thematic Interests
Middle East and Islamic affairs, religion and democracy, secularism, comparative politics and
political theory, politics of the Middle East, democracy and human rights, Islam-West relations.
Profile
- Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California-Los Angeles and Global Fellow, UCLA International Institute (2007-2008)
- Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University (2005-2007)
- Research Affiliate, Center for Middle Easter Studies, Harvard University (2005-2006)
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto (2004-2005); Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo (2003-2004)
Selected Publication
Contemporary Islam in Critical Dialogue Series (Singapore: Wardah Books, 2017)
"Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East,"ÌýÂ 15 (Fall 2017)
"Toward a Political Theory of Sectarianism in the Middle East: The Salience ofÂ
Authoritarianism over Theology,"ÌýÂ 1 (September 2016).
"Charles Taylor's A Secular Age and the Secularization from Below in Iran," in MirjamÂ
Künkler, John Madeley and Shylashri Shankar eds., A Secular Age Beyond the WestÂ
(Cambridge University Press, 2016).
"The ISIS Crisis and the Broken Politics of the Middle East: A Human Rights Framework forÂ
Understanding Radical Islamism," in Anthony T. Chase, Handbook on Human Rights and theÂ
Middle East and North Africa (New York: Routledge, forthcoming).
Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shariah in the Modern Age Critical Muslim, no. 14 (2015).
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Cairo Review of Global Affairs (Spring 2014).
"Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies: Rethinking the Relationship
between Islam and Secularism across the Islam-West Divide," in Ahmet Cavuldak,
Oliver Hidalgo, Philipp Hildmann and Holger Zapf eds.,  (Wiesbaden: Springer, 2014), 121-136.Â
"Rethinking Religion and Political Legitimacy Across the Islam-West Divide,"
 volume 40, no. 3 (April 2014).
"Re-negotiating Iran's Post-Revolutionary Social Contract: The Green Movement and theÂ
Struggle for Democracy in the Islamic Republic," in Mehran Kamrava ed.,  (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).Â
"The Arab Spring and Iran's Green Movement: A Comparison" in Brian Calfano and EmileÂ
Sahliyeh eds., (Lanham, MD: Lexington/Roman and Littlefield, 2014).Â
Co-authored with Mahmoud Sadri.Â
, Excerpt from the The SyriaÂ
Dilemma (MIT Press, 2013).Ìý
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Review of Global Affairs (Summer 2013).Ìý
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and International Affairs 27Â (Summer 2013).Ìý
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2013).Ìý
"Islam and Democracy after 9/11," in Benjamin Isakhan and Stephen Stockwell eds.,  (Edinburgh, Scotland: EdinburghÂ
University Press, 2013).Ìý
Hashemi, Nader. "Islam and Democracy," in John Esposito and Emad Shahin eds.,  (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).Ìý
""ÌýPolicy Brief by the Institute for Social PolicyÂ
and Understanding and the British Council 41Â (December 2012).Â
"The Arab Spring, US Foreign Policy and the Question of Democracy in the MiddleÂ
East,"ÌýDenver Journal of International Law and Policy 41Â (Fall 2012).Â
Hashemi, Nader. "Religious Leaders, Sectarianism and the Sunni-Shia Divide in Islam," inÂ
Timothy Sisk ed.,  (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2011).