Dara Conduit is an Associate Research Fellow at the Middle East Studies Forum at the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University working on Iran and Syria. Her work has been published in the British Journal of Middle East Studies, the Middle East Journal, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism and International Community Law Review. Ms. Conduit holds a PhD from Monash University, a M. Litt from the University of St. Andrews, was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge in 2015 and has provided advice to the UN OHCHR’s Working Group on Mercenaries. In 2016, she co-edited the Palgrave Macmillan volume, Iran in the World: President Rouhani’s Foreign Policy with Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh.Shahram Akbarzadeh is Research Professor of Middle East & Central Asian Politics at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia. He has an active research interest in the politics ofCentral Asia, Islam, Muslims in Australia and the Middle East. Shahram is author of Uzbekistan and the United States (2005), US Foreign Policy in the Middle East (2008 with Kylie Baxter), Muslim Active Citizenship in the West (2014 with Mario Peucker), and Politics and International Relations of the Middle East: Crisis Zone (2018 with Kylie Baxter). He is the founding Editor of the Islamic Studies Series, published by Melbourne University Press, and a regular public commentator. Shahram is a member of the Editorial Board of three leading refereed journals: Global Change, Peace & Security, the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, the Journal of Asian Security & International Affairs.
