Fatima Alsmadi

Fatima Alsmadi is a senior researcher at Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, where she supervises research on Iran, Türkiye, and Central Asia. Alsmadi holds a PhD in Social Sciences from Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran and has served as an assistant professor at several Jordanian universities. She has also written and edited a number of books and research papers including “Opinion Poll: Arab Elites’ Attitudes toward Arab-Iranian Relations and Iran’s Role in the Region,” Political Trends in Iran, Women in Politics, Iranian-American Rapprochement and the Future of the Iranian Role, and The Controversy of Hijab in Iran: From Religious to Political.