Commonwealth Club World Affairs, May 12, 2026

Iran’s Bottleneck Diplomacy With Saudi Arabia and Israel, 2026

With Peace Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, Austin, Texas, 2007

My moderated conversation with Oscar-nominated filmmakers Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni, at the Commonwealth Club World Affairs, February 24, 2026

With His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Hiroshima, Japan, November 2010

What Is Iran’s Defense Doctrine? I Explain Here: Avoiding All-Out War & An Imposed Peace

The Future Of Persian Gulf Security, World Boston, December, 2021

On Fox News, discussing U.S. foreign policy and the balance of power in the Middle East

Honored to be a Prominent Fletcher Woman (Hall of Flags, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University)

U.S., Saudi Arabia, Iran: A New Calculus?

A calligrapher offered to write my name, in Persian

From Game Theory To Chaos Theory, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 19, 2018

My moderated conversation with author Dalia Dasse Kaye, on U.S.-Iran relations, at the Commonwealth Club World Affairs, January 22, 2026

The Boston Globe interviews me about my war-time experiences and professional background as a senior EU-accredited linguist, translator and interpreter

In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, receiving an award for contributing to a discussion about U.S. foreign policy, November 2018

The Memory of Hiroshima Looms Large As We Reflect On The Case Of Iran’s Nuclear File, I write for French Magazine Orient XXI

The launch of my book at Princeton University, October 2017

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 2018

Link to my interview with the Portuguese Observador, on what the current US-Iran conflict escalation means.

MENA2050 is pleased to share a new publication by Dr. Banafsheh Keynoush, a member of the MENA2050 Climate Action Committee. This article is part of Dr. Keynoush’s series of publications examining climate policy, adaptation, and regional cooperation across the MENA region.