Dr Babak Rahimi
Former Visiting Fellow
Dr Babak Rahimi
Former Visiting Fellow
Babak Rahimi, who earned his BA at UCSD, received a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, in October 2004. Rahimi has also studied at the University of Nottingham, where he obtained an MA in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, and London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, 2000-2001.
Rahimi has written numerous articles on culture, religion and politics and regularly writes on contemporary Iraqi and Iranian politics. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the national endowment for the Humanities and Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute, and was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, Washington DC, where he conducted research on the institutional contribution of Shi’i political organizations in the creation of a vibrant civil society in post-Baathist Iraq. Rahimi’s current research project is on the implications of ICTs for Shi’i Islam in Iran and Iraq, especially how the Internet contributes to Shi’i politics online.
Civil society, public sphere, Internet, cyber-culture.