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Vali Nasr
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Vali Nasr

Born in Iran, Vali Nasr is a professor of international relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a senior fellow of The Dubai Initiative at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. His book The Shia Revival was a New York Times bestseller. He has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Time and appeared on Anderson Cooper 360, The Situation Room, Fareed Zakaria GPS, The Today Show, and Charlie Rose.

The Rise of Islamic Capitalism will be released on June 08, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Nov 20, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The Rise of Islamic Capitalism
Nov 05, 2009
Forces of Fortune will be released on September 15, 2009 in Hardcover
Sep 15, 2009
Forces of Fortune will be released on September 15, 2009 in eBook
Sep 15, 2009
Forces of Fortune is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Sep 15, 2009
Forces of Fortune is now available in
Sep 15, 2009
Fateful Crescent is now available in Hardcover
Aug 11, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Forces of Fortune
Aug 07, 2009
Fateful Crescent is now available in eBook
Jul 01, 2009
Fateful Crescent will be released on August 11, 2009 in Hardcover
Dec 19, 2008
Fateful Crescent will be released on July 01, 2009 in eBook
Dec 19, 2008

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Newswise, November 10, 2009
...excellent primer on the key ideas and prominent thinkers that have shaped Islamism over the past century,” said Vali Nasr, author of "Forces of Fortune: The Rise of a New Muslim Middle Class and What it Means for Our World." “Euben and Zaman provide...
Council On Foreign Relations, September 15, 2009
...higher in the power structures of many countries, changing religious, social and political life along the way,' writes Vali Nasr, former senior fellow at the . It is time to look past Islamic 'fundamentalism's hard-hitting rhetoric and the venom spewed...
Dissident Voice, January 26, 2009
...With 180 girls? schools torched since 2008 in Pakistan?s Swat Valley and some 900 indefinitely closed, the future for education for some 125,000 young women is under dire threat by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The latest bombings took place...
Washington Post, December 6, 2008
...-- James Reston Jr. Muqtada, by Patrick Cockburn (Scribner). Empathetic, insightful, and full of violence and rage. -- Vali Nasr A Path Out of the Desert, by Kenneth M. Pollack (Random House). A grand tour of the Middle East and its pathologies. -- Greg...
Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Interventi, October 2, 2009
...is partly due to the poor advice he has received from a number of "Iran experts", such as Vali Nasr and Ray Takyeh, who have publicly dismissed Ahmadinejad as a "noisemaker" without any significant power...
World Muslim Congress, September 15, 2009
...News Release: Rising Muslim Middle Class Vital in Combating Religious Extremism, says Vali Nasr in New CFR Book September 15, 2009 "The Middle East is a place of struggling and thriving economies, where new classes and business elites are elbowing their...
Pronto*, April 10, 2009
...Dahl, After the Revolution? Authority in the Good Society 7. Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success 8. Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam will Shape the Future 9. Parag Khana, The Second World: How Emerging Powers are...
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog, February 5, 2009
...despite the obvious control . . . allowed to retire or even continue political life. On this, see Ali Gheissari and Vali Nasr, Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). The New Rules: From...
Dissident Voice, January 26, 2009
...With 180 girls’ schools torched since 2008 in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and some 900 indefinitely closed, the future for education for some 125,000 young women is under dire threat by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The latest bombings took place...
Have Coffee Will Write, December 31, 2008
...s Cold War by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Haftali Rogue Regime by Jasper Becker Shia Revival, The by Vali Nasr Coldest Winter, The by David Halberstam Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears...