Saied Reza Ameli

Saied Reza Ameli (In Persian سعیدرضا عاملی; born 1961 in Karaj, Iran) is a (full) professor of communication at the University of Tehran. He is currently a member of Department of Communications and the director of the UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture,^[1] and Cyberspace Policy Research Center,^[2] Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran. Sinde the 2010s, Ameli has worked on issues of Muslim minority identity in the West, and Muslim minority rights in UK,^[3][4] France^[5] and the U.S. He also serves as the editor-in-chief of Journal of Cyberspace Studies.^[6] He was also Secretary of Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution.^[7][8] He is the member of Supreme Council of Cyberspace and Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution.^[9] He cofounded the United Kingdom-based Islamic Human Rights Commission in 1997.^[10]

Ameli in 2017

Education

• 1977: Graduate from John F. Kennedy High School – Sacramento, United States
• 1977-78: BA in mechanical engineering at the University of Sacramento (uncompleted)
• 1980-92: Seminary study in Islamic studies including, Arabic literature, theology, logic, philosophy, jurisprudence and principal of jurisprudence
• 1988-92: BA in social sciences at the University of Tehran
• 1994-95: MA in sociology of communications in University College of Dublin, dissertation topic was: The Relationship between TV programs and Religious Practices and Values
• 1996-01: PhD in sociology of communications, at the Royal Holloway University of London, his research topic was: The Impact of Globalization on British Muslim Identity