Op-eds and analysis

Hostage-Taking By Rogue States Is On the Rise. New Research Provides Fresh Ways To Tackle It The Conversation, 5 May 2026.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Has Not Been Seen In Months. For Trump’s Sake, He Better Not Be Dead The Age, 30 April 2026.

Trump’s Iran War Has Inflamed Bitter Rivalries That Will Shake The World The Age, 24 March 2026.

5 Books To Help You Understand Iran – Recommended By Experts The Conversation, 18 March 2026.

My Cell Guard’s Tears Put My Jaw On The Floor. Why ‘Good’ Australians Mourn a Torturer The Age, 9 March 2026.

The Ambiguity Over Rules and Regimes That Is Tearing Europe Apart Il Foglio Europeo 6 March 2026.

L’equivoco sulle regole e i regimi che sfalda anche l’Europa Il Foglio Europeo 6 March 2026.

Why Iranians Are Celebrating Being Bombed The Age, 2 March 2026.

I’m A Swinging Voter. Here’s Why The Prospect Of A New Centre-Right Party Has Me Excited The Age, 1 March 2026.

What a Gripping BBC Drama Gets Wrong About Tehran Prison Life Foreign Policy, 20 February 2026.

I Thought I Was In Control Of The Algorithm. Then Came The Dreams Of Blood-Soaked Streets The Age, 28 January 2026.

All The Conditions Are There For Iran’s Regime To Fall – Except One The Age, 21 January 2026.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is Crumbling. Miscalculations Have Pushed It To This Terminal Frenzy The Age, 15 January 2026.

The Mood on Iran’s Streets Seems To Be Desperation Rather Than Hope The Age, 8 January 2026.

When I Was Behind Bars, Time Stopped. But You Could Never Hide From the New Year The Age, 4 January 2026.

There Are Three Kinds of Antisemitism The Age, 28 December 2025.

Iran, Nazanin and the Value of a British Passport The London Standard, 12 December 2025.

Five Years On, Australia Is Calling Out the Thugs Who Jailed Me For What They Are The Age, 4 December 2025.

I Gave Birth Four Days Before Stacey’s Death. This Tragedy Could Have Happened to Any of Us The Age, 9 November 2025.

Left or Right, the Real Source of Extremism is Right in Front of Our Faces The Age, 25 September 2025.

Stubborn Hope: A Radical Message of Coexistence Australian Book Review, 2 September 2025.

When I Was Jailed in Iran, the Interrogator Showed Me a List of Australian Sites and Began Asking Questions The Age, 26 August 2025.

From Epstein to Trump, Rich and Powerful Men Have a Vulnerable-Women Problem The Age, 30 July 2025.

Yesterday, Bombs Fell on the Prison Where I Was Jailed. It May Be a Metaphor For the Iranian People’s Fate The Age, 24 June 2025.

What Happens to Iran When the Bombs Stop Falling?Crikey, 23 June 2025.

Israel Can’t Win if It Loses the Iranian People The Next Move with Garry Kasparov, 20 June 2025.

Iranians Support Israel Assassinating Their Opppressors – At Least For Now The Age, 17 June 2025.

Why Iran’s Supreme Leader Hasn’t Been Assassinated (Yet)Australian Financial Review, 17 June 2025.

Fatima Payman’s Backflip on Iranian Women’s Rights is a Betrayal Australian Financial Review, 26 February 2025.

Why DFAT’s Denial on Arbitrary Detention is Baffling The Australian, 11 December 2024.

Trump Can Reset the Middle East Conflict The Australian, 12 November 2024.

Iran’s Critical Blunder Has Only Further Deepened its Strategic Miscalculation The Age, 3 October 2024.

My Walls Have Crumbled The Jewish Independent, 23 September 2024.

Could Iranians Have Been Involved in Haniyeh’s Killing? Foreign Policy, 31 July 2024.

I Won’t Mourn the Sudden Death of the Man Who Oversaw My Sham Trial The Age, 24 May 2024.

The Exclusive – But Growing – Group No-one Wants to be Part of The Age, 18 March 2024.

I Was a Hostage … and Can’t Watch What’s Happening Now The Australian, 15 November 2023.

This is How to Curb Middle East Terror Australian Financial Review, 13 October 2023.

In the Game of Spy vs. Spy, Israel Keeps Getting the Better of Iran The Atlantic, 16 May 2024.

I Was a Hostage in Iran. The Deals Are Part of the Problem. The Atlantic, 25 August 2023.

Is the US Negotiating a Hostage Deal with Iran?International Intrigue, 30 June 2023.

Australia Must use its Magnitsky-Style Sanctions More Effectively to Deter Hostage Diplomacy Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 21 December 2022.

Part of Me Wished Iran’s Godforsaken Prison Would Burn to the Ground CNN, 24 October 2022.

Iran’s Revolutionary Moment Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 17 October 2022.

The True Meaning of Protest in Iran The Saturday Paper, 15 October 2022.

Iran’s Fingerprints are All Over the Salman Rushdie Attack, but the Question is Will the US Stand Up iNews, 16 August 2022.

On Ambition The Age, 12 August 2022.

The Heroes I Met Fighting Iran’s Brutal Prison System The National, 16 April 2021.

Mohamed Bin Salman and the Art of War

Arena Magazine, 2017.

A Band of (Muslim) Brothers? Exploring Bahrain’s Role in the Qatar Crisis The Middle East Institute, 3 August 2017.

Sectarian Divide and Rule in Bahrain: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? The Middle East Institute, 19 January 2016.