Dina Esfandiary Senior Advisor, Middle East and North Africa Please submit all media inquiries to media@crisisgroup.org or call +32 (0) 2 536 00 71 Crisis Group Role Dina Esfandiary advises Crisis Group’s Middle East and North Africa Program on research, analysis, policy prescription and advocacy. Professional Background Previously, Dina was a Fellow in the Middle East department of The Century Foundation (TCF), and an International Security Program Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Dina also worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) Middle East Program, the War Studies Department at King’s College London, and in the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament programme of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Dina has published widely, including in Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, The Guardian, the Washington Post, International Affairs, the National Interest, Arms Control Today, and The Washington Quarterly. She holds a Ph.D in the War Studies department at King’s College London and Masters Degrees from King’s College London and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. Areas of Expertise Persian Gulf security and foreign relations Relations between states and non-proliferation in the Middle East Select Publications Triple-Axis: Iran’s Relations with Russia and China, I.B Taurus (2018) Living on the Edge: Iran and the Practice of Nuclear Hedging, Palgrave Macmillan (2016) In The News 4 Oct 2022 The train has already left the station. No matter what this government [in Iran] gives, it probably won’t be enough to assuage protesters’ grievances at this point. LA Times Dina Esfandiary Senior Advisor, Middle East and North Africa 15 Sep 2022 Russia and Iran are showing that they are not afraid to work together when it's in their interest. The National Dina Esfandiary Senior Advisor, Middle East and North Africa 29 Apr 2022 There’s a real frustration among Gulf Arab states with the way the West is dealing with this conflict [in Ukraine] versus how it has with other conflicts in the region. The National Dina Esfandiary Senior Advisor, Middle East and North Africa 7 Mar 2022 I think there has also been a realization among these energy producers (Middle East oil producers), that they are not as important now as when the world was highly depend... DW Dina Esfandiary Senior Advisor, Middle East and North Africa 14 Dec 2021 The fact that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are becoming more willing to engage the Iranians will bring them closer to the other countries in the GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council... Al Jazeera Dina Esfandiary Senior Advisor, Middle East and North Africa 5 Sep 2021 The US and other Western countries welcome Qatari mediation because of their [own] limited interactions with the Taliban [in Afghanistan]. France 24 Dina Esfandiary Senior Advisor, Middle East and North Africa Latest Updates Podcast / Middle East & North Africa 25 November 2022 Football and Politics in the Gulf Commentary / Middle East & North Africa 14 April 2022 The Impact of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine in the Middle East and North Africa Also available in العربية Commentary / Europe & Central Asia 04 March 2022 The Ukraine War: A Global Crisis? Also available in Español Commentary / Middle East & North Africa 15 September 2021 The Anxiety Effect: How 9/11 and Its Aftermath Changed Gulf Arab States’ Relations with the U.S. Op-Ed / Middle East & North Africa 13 September 2021 The Taliban’s Comeback Is a Conundrum for Iran Op-Ed / Middle East & North Africa 22 June 2021 The Hard-Liners Won in Iran. That’s Not All Bad News. Load more