Assal Rad is a historian of Middle East history and a Nonresident Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC and DAWN. Assal completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues, the Middle East, contemporary Iran, and Israel/Palestine. Her writing can be seen in Newsweek, The Independent, Foreign Policy and more, and she has appeared as a commentator on BBC World, Al Jazeera, CNN, and NPR. She is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Don’t Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide (Vintage, 2026). Follow her on X/Twitter: @AssalRad and IG: @AssalRad_
Assal Rad
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Assal Rad is a historian of Middle East history and a Nonresident Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC and DAWN. Assal completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues, the Middle East, co…