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Human Geography
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Arvin Khoshnood

Programme Coordinator

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Human Geography
Contact details
  • Email: arvin [dot] khoshnood [at] keg [dot] lu [dot] se
  • Phone: +46 46 222 86 90
Organisation
  • Department of Human Geography
  • Service point: 16
Other affiliations
  • Academic advisor (Leave of Absence)
    Department of Human Geography

Presentation

  • Occupation: Administrative Director of Studies. Programme Coordinator for the master's programme in International Development and Management (LUMID).
  • Education: M.Sc. in Human Geography, M.Sc. in Policital Science, B.Sc. in Human Geography, B.Sc. in Political Science, B.Sc. in Intelligence Analysis from Lund University.
  • Thematic research interests: Civil Resistance, Defection within Security Forces, Geopolitics, Hydropolitics, Intelligence Studies, Security Policy, Terrorism
  • Regional research interests: Iran, the Middle East

Research Publications

Analysis and Op-eds (selection)

Lectures and Expert Participation (selection)

  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2024). Panelist. Seminar, "Terrorstämpla islamiska revolutionsgardet inom EU" [Designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a Terrorist Organisation within the EU], arranged by the Sweden Democrats and the ChristianDemocrats, the Swedish Parliament, 22 May, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2024). Breaking Ranks: Fostering Defection within the Islamic Regime’s Armed Forces and the Role of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. Seminar, "IRGC is NOT an Organ of a Nation-State, but a Terrorist Organization", arranged by Iran Novin Party (hosted by the ECR group), the European Parliament, 4 April, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2023). Prospects for Democracy in Iran – Challenges and Opportunities. Seminar, "CMES Seminar Series", arranged by Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, 11 May, Lund, Sweden.
  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2023). Fattigdom och rekrytering till islamiska regimens säkerhetsstyrkor [Poverty and Recruitment to the Islamic Regime's Security Forces]. Seminar, "IRGC in Focus", arranged by Iran in Focus, 28 March, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2022). Iran Revolution 2022. Lecture, Moderata Ungdomsförbundet, MST Ultimatum, 5 November, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2019). Deprivation and Democracy in Iran -The Negative Impact of International Trade. Seminar, “Iran and the Changing World Order”, arranged by “China-Eurasia” Council for Political and Strategic Research, 12 March, Jerevan, Armenia.
  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2017). Poverty in the Post-Nuclear Agreement Iran - The Dilemma of Lifting the Sanctions. Lecture, bachelor's programme in Global Governance, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 16 November, Rome, Italy.
  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2014). Human Rights Violations in Iran - Tortures, executions and de-development since 1979. Lecture,  Amnesty International, 11 February, Lund, Sweden.

Conference Contributions

  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2017). Deprivation in Iran – Poverty, Islam and Regime Security. 2017 Salzburg Conference in Interdisciplinary Poverty Research: Religion and Poverty, University of Salzburg, 21-22 September, Salzburg, Austria.
  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2017). Securitization of Poverty – Ali Khamenei’s Poverty Discourse and Determination of the Poverty Line in Iran. Symposia Iranica's Third Biennial Conference, University of Cambridge, 11-12 april, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2016). Poverty as a Regime Security Objective – The Case of Islamic Republic of Iran. Development Research Day - End Hunger and Achieve Food Security by 2030, Lund University, 10 November, Lund, Sweden.
  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2013). Water Scarcity in the Levant: The Cost of Water, War and Co-operation. 17th Annual International Conference on Economics and Security, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), 14-15 June, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2011). War or Cooperation? – The Role of Water in the Future of the Jordan River. Development Research Day - Development, Peace and Statebuilding, Lund University, 21 September, Lund, Sweden.

Book Reviews

  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2016). [Hovsepian-Bearce, Yvette (2016). The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei – Out of the mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran. London: Routledge]. Orientaliska studier, 145, 116-120.
  • Khoshnood, Arvin (2014). [Gilly, Pierre (2013). Informationskriget mot Iran. Stockholm: Verbal förlag]. Orientaliska Studier, 137, 85-99.

Interviews (selection)

Last updated: 21 May 2025