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Abbas Barzegar

Assistant Professor at Georgia State University and Fellow at the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding

Abbas Barzegar is an Assistant Professor of Islam at Georgia State University and a Fellow with the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding. With Richard Martin he is co-editor of the volume Islamism: Contested Perspective of Political Islam (Stanford, 2009). His views have been distributed through Common Ground News and the Guardian's Comment is Free. His scholarly research concerns the history of the Sunni-Shi'a conflict.