Ray Takeyh
Ray Takeyh is the Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His area of specialization are Iran, U.S. foreign policy, and modern Middle East. Takeyh is, most recently, the author of “The Last Shah: America, Iran and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty” and three other books, “Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs,” “Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic,” and “The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine: The US, Britain and Nasser’s Egypt, 1952-1957.” He is the co-author of “The Pragmatic Superpower: Winning the Cold War in the Middle East” and “Revolution & Aftermath: Forging a New Strategy toward Iran.” He has written more than three hundred articles and opinion pieces for various news outlets including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Foreign Affairs. Takeyh has testified more than twenty times in various congressional committees. Before joining CFR, he served as a senior advisor on Iran at the State Department, a fellow at Yale University, the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, and the Middle East Center at the University of California, Berkeley. He is on the editorial board of Survival: Global Politics and Strategy and Orbis: Journal of World Affairs. Takeyh has a doctorate in modern history from the University of Oxford.
