Dr. Meysam Badamchi
Political philosophy, liberalism and multiculturalism in Muslim-majority societies, comparative constitutionalism, civil society in the MENA region, nationalism and identity politics, and contemporary Islamic political theory.
Dr. Meysam Badamchi is an Iranian-Turkish philosopher and journalist and a member of the Institute for Interregional Study of Constitutionalism, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague. He is also a senior researcher and editor at Volunteer Activists Institute (VA), which is dedicated to fortifying civil society in Iran and the MENA region. Previously he was a guest researcher at the Institute for Philosophy & the Institute for Area Studies, in Leiden University, Netherlands (2020-2022).
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His fields of expertise in political philosophy and science include political liberalism and multiculturalism as extended to Muslim Majority context as well as Iranian, Turkish and Azerbaijani (in general Islamic) contemporary political thought and politics.
Dr. Badamchi earned his PhD from Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome in 2012, with a dissertation entitled Political Liberalism for Muslim Majority Societies. Between 2013-2016 he was a postdoc research fellow at the Center for Modern Turkish Studies, Istanbul Åžehir University, founded by Turkish TÜBÄ°TAK.
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He is also a regular writer and contributor to variety of Persian media platforms outside Iran, including Aasoo, Radiozamaneh, Zeitoons, and BBC Persian, with the experience of working full-time as a multimedia journalist for the London-based Iran International TV news channel (2017 –2020).
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Some of his English publications include: Post-Islamist Political Theory: Iranian Intellectuals and Political Liberalism in Dialogue, (Springer, ‘Philosophy and Politics: Critical Explorations’ Series, 2017), “Can Kymlicka’s Liberal Multiculturalism be exported to Iran? The Challenge of Multi-National Federalism” (in François Boucher & Jean-François Caron (eds.), Multicultural Citizenship: Critiques and Legacies, Routledge, 2024), and “Azerbaijani and Kurdish Ethnonationalism within Multicultural Perspective: A Comparative Study of Iran and Turkey”. His writings in Persian, English and Turkish are available in his website: https://nikomakhus1.blogspot.com/ as well as his academia.edu page: https://independent.academia.edu/MeysamBadamchi
