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I am a first-year PhD student in History, working under the supervision of Dr. Adnan Husain. My research sits at the meeting point of intellectual history, political thought, and religious philosophy in modern Iran and the wider Muslim world. I am particularly interested in how imperialism in the Middle East has shaped the formation of the nation-states under its influence and the relationships between them, and in how religious ideas have informed political thought, collective selfhood, and identity in the region over time. In this regard, I also study propaganda and soft power, which I approach not merely as instruments of messaging, but rather as contests over belief, memory, and belonging.

I am also interested in tracing the idea of the self in diaspora, and in how exile and migration unsettle, reshape, and at times politicize a community's sense of who it is, as well as its relationship with its home country. Thus, the questions of selfhood that animate my work on Iran also follow communities abroad, where memory, loyalty, and belonging are renegotiated far from home.