Dr. Fakhari is Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs/Associate Provost and Professor of Political Science at Kingsborough Community College of The City University of New York (CUNY). He holds a Ph.D., with honors, in International Relations from the New School for Social Research in New York City. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the emergence of Mikhail S. Gorbachev in the Soviet Union and his key role in ending the Cold War. Before joining Kingsborough in August 2005, Dr. Fakhari served as Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY. He has also been an adjunct professor of International Politics at Fordham University in New York since 1985 and has taught at Vassar College and the International Pacific College in New Zealand. He has been an invited faculty presenter on “How to Promote Globalism among Students” in the International Study Program of the Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, in 2004, 2006 and 2008.

Dr. Fakhari has lectured widely on Islam and the Middle East in the U.S. and abroad and has appeared on TV and radio. His research interests include globalization and its discontents, the United Nations, the changing role of the U.S. in the world in the post-9/11 international system, global governance, the Middle East, and promoting civic engagement and globalism among college students.