Educated at the Universities of Tehran and Freie Universität Berlin, where he received his PhD in Political Anthropology. His research has focused on various broad theoretical and practical theories of Political Anthropology, International Relations, Anthropology of West Asia and North Africa, with a particular focus on Muslim Societies, Geopolitics and Geoculture. He worked for Cultural Deputy of Ministry of Science, Research and Technology from 2007 to 2008. He was also head