Soheil Asefi is a journalist and scholar. He studied Political Science at The New School for Social Research and is a PhD student of Sociology at the University of Nevada. Soheil Asefi was Nuremberg’s guest under the German PEN project “Writers in Exile”, and received the German Hermann Kasten award. He has written extensively on the politics of belonging, commodification, imperialism and the dimensions of democratisation and neoliberalisation in the Middle East.