8th Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
In office July 1, 2012 – June 14, 2019
Preceded by
Jessica Einhorn
Succeeded by
Eliot A. Cohen
Personal details
Born
Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr
(1960-12-20) December 20, 1960 (age 63) Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Children
3
Parent
Seyyed Hossein Nasr (father)
Education
Tufts University (B.A. and M.A.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)
Awards
Ellis Island Medal of Honor
Vali Reza Nasr (Persian: ولی رضا نصر, born 20 December 1960) is an Iranian-American academic and author, specializing in the Middle East and the Islamic world. He is Majid Khaddouri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. He served as the eighth dean of the school from 2012 to 2019. Nasr is also a Non-Resident Fellow in South Asia at Atlantic Council[1] and is described by The Economist as "a leading world authority on Shia Islam".[2]
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^"Shias, Catholics and Protestants". The Economist. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
Vali Reza Nasr (Persian: ولی رضا نصر, born 20 December 1960) is an Iranian-American academic and author, specializing in the Middle East and the Islamic...
by ValiNasr with former Pakistani foreign minister Aghan Shahi, Lahore, 1989. from Nasr, Vali, The Shia Revival, Norton, (2006), p.138 Nasr, Vali, The...
Ramin Jahanbegloo as well as the father of American academic ValiNasr. The surname "Nasr", which means "victory", was given to his grandfather by the...
capability... Amos Yadlin and Charles Krauthammer Fareed Zakaria and ValiNasr Con 18% Roy Thomson Hall May 30, 2013 Be it resolved, tax the rich (more)...
used by the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (in Persian) ValiNasr and Ali Gheissari (13 December 2004) "Foxes in Iran's Henhouse", New York...
second President of Egypt Ibrahim Nasir (1926–2008), Maldivian President ValiNasr (born 1960), Iranian-American Middle Eastern expert Hakim Nasir, Pakistani...
33: 1–7. Retrieved June 4, 2014. Nasr, Vali, The Shia Revival (W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2006) p. 84 Nasr, Vali (2007). The Shia Revival: How Conflicts...
(2006), pp. 160-1 Nasr, Vali, The Shia Revival, Norton, (2006), p.164 Nasr, Vali, The Shia Revival, Norton, (2006), pp. 161–62 Nasr, Vali, The Shia Revival...
Retrieved 10 July 2023. Gail Minault, The Khilafat movement, p. 184 ValiNasr, The Shia Revival, Norton, (2006), p. 106 "Challenge to the system: the...
October 2009. Momen 1985, p. 277 "Foreign Affairs – When the Shiites Rise – ValiNasr". Mafhoum.com. Archived from the original on 15 January 2014. Retrieved...
intelligence agencies, etc.) to keep those institutions weak. According to ValiNasr of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, "[Khamenei]...
these demands as did the majority of the general public. Nasr 1996, p. 139. Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza (1996). Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism...
deprived and oppressed peoples in the world. According to author Seyyed ValiNasr, Khomeini appealed to the masses, during the pre-1979 period, by referring...
University Seyyed Hossein Nasr, professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University; prominent Islamic philosopher ValiNasr, author and scholar on...
boycotted and expelled so that Muslims be spared their evil. According to ValiNasr, al-Jibrin's sanctioning of the killing of Shia was reiterated in Wahhabi...
People in Iran, 1963 (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. p. 124. ValiNasr (February 2000). "Politics within the Late-Pahlavi State: The Ministry...
concerns that the group provides an entryway to Islamist extremism." Scholar ValiNasr argues that in the 1980s Ahmad became part of Saudi Arabia's anti-Shiite...
Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2019. ValiNasr (15 September 2009). Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Hindu Middle...
International Studies In office 2002–2012 Preceded by Paul Wolfowitz Succeeded by ValiNasr Personal details Education Barnard College (BA) Johns Hopkins University...
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