Ray Takeyh
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Ray Takeyh | |
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| Born | 1966 (age 57–58) Tehran, Iran |
| Education | University of Oxford (PhD) |
Ray Takeyh is an
Iranian-American Middle East scholar, former United States Department of State official, and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.[1]
Early life
Ray Takeyh was born to an Assyrian family in Tehran, Iran in 1966.[2] His family has origins in the village of Takeyh-Ardishai in Urmia.[3] He obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford.
Career
Before joining the council, he was a fellow in international security studies at
Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a professor at the National War College, and a professor and director of studies at the Near East and South Asia Center at the National Defense University. He is married to Suzanne Maloney
,
Brookings Institution Deputy Director of Foreign Policy, also an Iran analyst.[4]
Takeyh has written extensively on
Newshour
.
Takeyh assisted Dennis Ross in 2009 in the latter's position as senior Iran advisor at the U.S. State Department.[5]
Books
- Ray Takeyh, The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty (Yale University Press, 2021). ISBN 978-0-30-025626-0
- Ray Takeyh, Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs (Oxford University Press, 2009). ISBN 978-0-19-532784-7
- Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2006). ISBN 0-8050-7976-9
- Ray Takeyh, ISBN 0-275-97628-9
- Ray Takeyh, The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine: The United States, Britain, and Nasser's Egypt, 1953–1957 (Macmillan Press, 2000)
References
- ^ U.S. Is Seeking a Range of Sanctions Against Iran
- ^ "Zinda 16 October 2006". www.zindamagazine.com. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ^ "Zinda 16 October 2006". www.zindamagazine.com. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ^ Shirazi, Michael Weiss (10 July 2015). "Clinton Foundation Donor Violated Iran Sanctions, Tried to Sell 747s to Tehran". The Daily Beast.
- ^ "New Members of the Obama Administration". Arms Control Association. May 7, 2009. Retrieved July 14, 2015.
External links
- Ray Takeyh's Council on Foreign Relations web page
- Senate testimony – September 19, 2006.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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