Berkeley Lecture Series Presents:
A Lecture by Banafsheh Keynoush, Scholar
Topic: “History in Perspective: What Actually Drives the Saudi Rivalry with Iran?”
Banafsheh Keynoush is a foreign affairs scholar and the author of “Saudi Arabia and Iran: Friends or Foes?” She received her PhD at Tufts University. She was recently a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University, and a Visiting Fellow at the King Faisal Center for Islamic Studies and Research in Saudi Arabia. She is an adjunct professor, and a geopolitical consultant, and writes and speaks extensively on the Middle East.
The lecture will focus on her new book “Saudi Arabia and Iran: Friends or Foes?”, a narrative based on accounts of her interactions with Saudi and Iranian politicians and rich archival material, as it unravels the mysteries of a contentious relationship. As a seasoned observer of political and diplomatic worlds she shatters the myth of the inevitability of sectarian conflict and that the diplomacy between Saudi Arabia and Iran is exhausted. Instead, Banafsheh Keynoush argues that it has yet to be explored, by recasting the partnership from a US-centered point of view to one based on how Saudi Arabia and Iran see their roles.
Lecture in Persian
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