Abbas Vali

Prof. Abbas Vali is a Kurdish political theorist from Mahabad, Iran, and one of the foremost scholars on Kurdish identity and nationalism. He studied in Tehran and London, earning his PhD in Historical Sociology from the University of London, and later taught at Swansea University and Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. He was also the founding president of the University of Kurdistan in Hewlêr. His works include Essays on the Origins of Kurdish Nationalism and Kurds and the State in Iran: The Making of Kurdish Identity.