This page brings together a growing selection of my published writing across different fields. Entries may be grouped into thematic sections over time, and each item includes a brief description and a link to the original publication.

Politics and political economy

• Iran’s Political Capitalism and the Western Left’s Hesitation: How a Revolt Gets Filtered Through Ideology — Zamaneh Media (January 30, 2026)
  A political-economic reading of Iran’s “political capitalism” and recurring revolt, alongside an argument about how parts of the Western left misrecognize uprising agency under geopolitical framing and information control.
  https://en.radiozamaneh.com/37714/
• Iran’s Protest Cycles: Exclusion, Contention, and the Path to Anti-Discriminatory Politics — Zamaneh Media (January 12, 2026)
  A compact framework for understanding recent protest waves as recurring cycles rooted in an exclusionary accumulation regime, pointing to anti-discrimination politics as a bridge across overlapping grievances.
  https://en.radiozamaneh.com/37641/

Technology AND SOCIETY

• Meaning in the Making: Saussure, Narratives, and Large Language Models — Zenodo (February 21, 2026)
  A short reflection on how Ferdinand de Saussure’s structuralism clarifies what LLMs do when they generate fluent text—strong sign-to-sign patterning—while showing where that fluency fails to become grounded, accountable human meaning.
  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18725677