Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a Researcher on ORG's Iran project as part of our Middle East programme. He is a doctoral candidate in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Queen’s College, University of Oxford. His research pertains primarily to issues of religious and political reform in post-revolutionary Iran. Other interests include Shi’ite clerical politics and political Islamism in the Shi’ite world. He taught the MSc in International Politics of the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2010-2011. He has published numerous articles and reviews, including The Guardian: Comment is Free, PBS’s Tehran Bureau, Equilibri, The British Journal of Middle East Studies, and Iranian Studies. He also writes on  twitter.com/essikhan.