Mohammad Ataie is a historian of the Middle East and a lecturer in History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research explores the intersection of revolutions, transnationalism, and Muslim clerical networks, with a particular focus on the global impact of the 1978–79 Iranian revolution. He has written extensively on Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine in English and Persian, and is completing a book that traces the transnationalisation of the Iranian Revolution.