Reza Parchizadeh, PhD, is a political theorist, security analyst and cultural expert. He wrote his master’s thesis on Middle Eastern history and Orientalist philosophy and his doctoral dissertation on political thought and cultural studies in the English-speaking world, defending both with distinction. Parchizadeh serves on the editorial boards of The Journal for Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies of Israel’s Ariel University and the global news agency Al Arabiya Farsi. He is an international committee correspondent for the World Shakespeare Bibliography, a joint project of Johns Hopkins University and the Shakespeare Association of America.