He received his master’s from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in 2013 with a focus on gender in modern Iran. He is an editor-in-chief of Ajam Media Collective (AjamMC.com), a blog focused on culture and society in Iran and Central Asia. Ali Abdi is a PhD student of Anthropology at Yale University. He is one of the founders of Havaar, the NY-based Iranian Initiative Against War, Sanctions, and State Repression. Before leaving Iran in 2009, Abdi was active in student and women's rights movements. But as the impossibility of partition (the so-called “two-state solution”) as a viable way to end the conflict becomes ever-clearer, it is long past time to grapple with how the law of occupation can also hamper collective thinking and action. click | email | tweet