The Iranian view of Hiroshima: Beyond anti-US ideology?
The use of the memory of Hiroshima as a political weapon against the US, a country that Iran says has undermined its sovereignty since World War II, is a recurring theme in Iranian media.
Banafsheh is an independent scholar and consultant. An academic for thirteen years, she taught courses at universities in the Bay Area and the East Coast, was a visiting scholar at Princeton University in 2017-2018, and conducted regular fieldwork in Iran and the Arab world.
The author of Saudi Arabia and Iran: Friends or Foes? (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), also published in Arabic and Persian, Banafsheh is the editor of a forthcoming book entitled Iran’s Interregional Dynamics in the Near East (New York: Peter Lang, 2020). She is also the author of numerous articles, a regular public policy speaker and a contributor to international news outlets.
As a consultant, Banafsheh has advised the United Nations, UNHCR, ILO, think tanks, NGOs, US-based and global private-sector companies, CNN International, the World Bank, and a host of media outlets.
Banafsheh has lived and worked in more than 42 countries. She received her Ph.D. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and completed joint degree coursework at The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
The use of the memory of Hiroshima as a political weapon against the US, a country that Iran says has undermined its sovereignty since World War II, is a recurring theme in Iranian media.