Trita Parsi, acclaimed author and president of the National Iranian American Council, will speak twice on campus Monday, Nov. 10. Both of his talks are free and open to the public.
The first speech, “U.S. and Iran after the Election,” is part of the "Pizza and Politics" series, and will be given at 12:55 p.m. in Room 302 of the Reamer Campus Center. His second talk, “Iran, Israel and the United States: Past, Present and Future,” is at 5:30 p.m. at the Nott Memorial.
Parsi is the author of “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, published in 2007, is based on more than 130 interviews he conducted with senior officials in the three title countries.
Parsi has worked for the Swedish Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, where he served in the Security Council handling affairs for Afghanistan, Iraq, Tajikistan, and Western Sahara. He also served as a foreign policy advisor for Congressman Robert Ney (R-Ohio), and spent time as an adjunct professor of international relations at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Parsi is a frequent commentator on U.S.-Iranian relations and Middle Eastern affairs. He has appeared on BBC World News, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CNN, Al Jazeera, C-Span, National Public Radio, ABC and MSNBC.
Parsi was born in Iran and grew up in Sweden. He earned a master’s degree in international relations at Uppsala University, a second master’s degree in economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, and a doctorate in international relations at Johns Hopkins University.