I am a historian of the modern Middle East, specializing in the history and politics of Iran, the Persian Gulf and Palestine/Israel. I have a PhD in history from the University of Oxford (2024). In October 2025 I joined the Austrian Academy of Sciences as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies. I take part in the ERC project “Persianate Jews: Mobility, Community, Memory”, researching the history of Jewish migration and belonging in modern Iran.

My first book came out in April 2025: Iran and Israel: Old friends, new enemies (in Norwegian). This book tells the history of the conflict between Iran and Israel. Drawing on sources in Hebrew and Persian, it highlights Iran’s Jewish history and places the conflict in a wider context of Western imperialism in the Middle East. The book provides a fresh take on a relatively new conflict, making it the latest attempt at explaining the emergence of rivalry between Iran and Israel.

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