Dr. Ali Fathollah-Nejad is an associate fellow with the American University of Beirut’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, where he publishes a monthly brief entitled “Iran in Focus.” He is the initiator and co-host of the Berlin Mideast Podcast and an affiliated researcher with the Center for the Study of International Cooperation and Development at Free University of Brussels and Freie Universitat Berlin’s Center for Middle Eastern and North African politics.