Dr. Rowena Abdul Razak

Rowena Abdul Razak holds a DPhil in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford. Her thesis examined the start of the Cold War in Iran. She has written on Arab nationalism in Bahrain, British-Iranian labour history, and on the Tudeh Party in Britain. She has previously taught at the LSE and Queen Mary, University of London. She is an independent researcher involved in projects that explores the historical links between Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf. She lives in between London and Kuala Lumpur.