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Yerevan Saeed Barzani Scholar-in-Residence Politics, Governance & Economics

Additional Positions at Â鶹ÊÓƵ
Director of Global Kurdish Initiative for Peace
Degrees
PhD from the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

MA from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

BA in Government, the University of Texas at Austin

Languages Spoken
Kurdish, Arabic, Persian
Bio
Yerevan Saeed is the Barzani Scholar in Residence at Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s School of International Service and a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington He is a TEDx speaker and former lecturer at the University of Kurdistan Hewler. Saeed previously was a visiting scholar and research associate at AGSIW. Saeed is a political analyst who researches and writes on security, political, and energy issues in the Middle East, focusing on Iraq, Turkey, Iran, the Gulf, and the Levant. He has served as White House correspondent for the Kurdish Rudaw TV, and his work has been published in the Washington Institute’s Fikra Forum, the Diplomatic Courier, The New York Times, the London-based Majalla magazine, Rudaw, Global Politician, and several Kurdish newspapers. In addition, he has been interviewed by Voice of America, NPR, CNN, Voice of Russia, and Kurdish television programs and newspapers. From 2009-13, Saeed worked with Stratfor; additionally, he worked for several media outlets, including The New York Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, BBC, and The Guardian, as a journalist and translator in Iraq from 2003-07.
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