Ray Takeyh is an Iranian-American

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scholar, former

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official, and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Early life

Ray Takeyh was born to an

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family in

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, Iran in 1966. His family has origins in the village of Takeyh-Ardishai in

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. He obtained his doctorate from the

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Career

Prior to joining the Council, he was a fellow in international security studies at

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, a fellow at the

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, a professor at the National War College, and a professor and director of studies at the Near East and South Asia center at the

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. He is married to Suzanne Maloney, Brookings Institution Deputy Director of Foreign Policy, also a Iran analyst. Takeyh has written extensively on

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and on U.S. policy toward the Middle East. He has testified several times before various committees of the

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and has appeared as an Iran expert on a variety of television programs, including the

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'' Newshour''. Takeyh assisted

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in 2009 in the latter's position as senior Iran advisor at the U.S. State Department.

Books

* Ray Takeyh, ''The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty'' (Yale University Press, 2021). * Ray Takeyh, ''Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs'' (Oxford University Press, 2009). * Ray Takeyh,
Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic
' (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2006). * Ray Takeyh, Nikolas Gvosdev,
The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Radical Political Islam
' (Praeger Publishers, 2004). * Ray Takeyh, ''The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine: The United States, Britain and Nasser's Egypt, 1953–1957'' (Macmillan Press, 2000)

References

External links

Senate testimony
– September 19, 2006. *

{{DEFAULTSORT:Takeyh, Ray 1966 births Alumni of the University of Oxford Iranian Assyrian people Iranian expatriate academics Living people Middle Eastern studies in the United States The Washington Institute for Near East Policy American people of Iranian-Assyrian descent People from Tehran Iranian emigrants to the United States