Simon Theobald
@simontheobald.bsky.social
Recovering anthropologist with an interest in ethics, morality, and the "good life" in the Persianate world. Presently a research fellow at the University of Oxford.
An absolute avalanche of bad takes on Iran.
January 12, 2026 at 7:51 PM
An absolute avalanche of bad takes on Iran.
Whatever happens in Iran, Iranians deserve both better than Khamenei, and the Pahlavis.
January 11, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Whatever happens in Iran, Iranians deserve both better than Khamenei, and the Pahlavis.
Any attempt to get at just some of the complexities in Iran in a very condensed form: theconversation.com/do-all-irani...
Do all Iranians hate the regime? Hate America? Life inside the country is much more complex and nuanced
News reporting on Iran encourages a view of the regime as homogeneous, ideological and separate from the people. But many Iranians have ambivalent views on the state.
theconversation.com
June 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Any attempt to get at just some of the complexities in Iran in a very condensed form: theconversation.com/do-all-irani...
My article in American Ethnologist on sound, utopia, and Iranian post-revolutionary Islamism is now available, open access at anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 26, 2023 at 4:10 AM
My article in American Ethnologist on sound, utopia, and Iranian post-revolutionary Islamism is now available, open access at anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...