Roxane Farmanfarmaian Explained

Roxane Batoul Farmanfarmaian (born February 1955) is a British lecturer in international politics at the University of Cambridge.^[1] She is the daughter of Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian.

Education

She obtained her BSc from Princeton University, and her MPhil and DPhil from the University of Cambridge.

Academic career

She is an affiliated lecturer of international politics on the Master of Studies programme at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge (POLIS). She heads up the Global Politics and International Studies division of the Institute of Continuing Education of the University of Cambridge. She is a founding member of the Centre for the International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa. From 2002 to 2005 she was Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.^[2]

Selected publications

• Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince. Prion Books, 1999. (With Manucher Farmanfarmaian)
• War and Peace in Qajar Persia: Implications Past and Present. Routledge, 2008. (Editor)
• "Media and the politics of the sacral: Freedom of expression in Tunisia after the Arab Uprisings", Media, Culture and Society, Vol 39, Issue 7, 2017.
• Iran's Rhetoric Aggression: Instrumentalising foreign policy through the media. Iran Media Program, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2017.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dr Roxane Farmanfarmaian — Department of Politics and International Studies . Polis.cam.ac.uk. 27 September 2013 . 20 June 2020.
2. Web site: Dr Roxane Farmanfarmaian . Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) . University of Cambridge . 27 February 2021 . en . 3 December 2015.