Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council and a frequent commentator on U.S.-Iranian relations and Middle Eastern affairs, will speak on “Iran, Israel and the United States: Past, Present and Future” at the Nott Memorial Monday, Nov. 10, at 5:30 p.m.
Earlier in the day (12:55 p.m.) as part of Pizza & Politics, he will discuss “U.S. and Iran after the Election” at Reamer Campus Center, Room 302.
Parsi is the author of the 2007 “Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States,” which won a 2008 Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award. The book is based on interviews he conducted with senior officials in the three countries.
Born in Iran and reared in Sweden, Parsi earned master’s degrees in international relations at Uppsala University and in economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, and a doctorate in international relations at Johns Hopkins University. He has worked for the Swedish Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, where he handled affairs for Afghanistan, Iraq, Tajikistan, and Western Sahara. He also has served as an adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins.