Haleh Esfandiari
Director , Middle East Program
Phone: 202/691-4259
Email: haleh.esfandiari@wilsoncenter.org

Affiliation Director, Middle East Program Expertise Democratic and political developments in the Middle East; Middle Eastern women's issues; contemporary Iranian intellectual currents and politics Experience Former Deputy Secretary General of the Women's Organization of Iran; journalist; Fellow at the Wilson Center, 1995-96; educator at Princeton University, 1980-94; frequent lecturer on current Iranian and Middle Eastern affairs

Major Publications | Education | Honors

Major Publications

• "Why 'Soft' Power in Iran Is Counterproductive," co-author with Robert S. Litwak, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2007
  
• "Held in My Homeland," Outlook section, The Washington Post, September 2007
  
• "A View from the Region: Different Perspectives on Israel's War with Lebanon's Hizbullah," editor, Middle East Program Occasional Paper Series, Fall 2006

Education
Ph.D., University of Vienna

Honors
Recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant




Record updated: 04/15/2009

Middle East Program
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