Saied Reza Ameli

Saied Reza Ameli (In Persian سعیدرضا عاملی, born 1961 in Karaj, Iran) is a (full) professor of communications at the University of Tehran and vice president of Planning and Information technologies at the University of Tehran.^[1][2][3][4] He is also the founder of the Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran. He is currently a member of Department of Communications and the director of Cyberspace Policy Research Center, Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran. Over the past decade, Ameli has been working on issues of Muslim minority identity in the West, and Muslim minority rights in UK,^[5][6] France^[7] and the U.S.

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

Awards

• National Award of Excellence – Year 2008 (1387) for Initiator of Electronic Public Relations in Iran, Permanent Secretary of E. PR Conference
• Prominent Researcher of Year 2009 (1388) for Research Project on Virtual City of Tehran, University of Tehran Annual Research Award
• Prominent Researcher of Year 2009 (1388) for Book entitled as Studies on Virtual City of Tehran, Municipality of Tehran
• Distinguished and Honours of Excellent for Research entitled as Strategic Study on Cyber Space, University of Tehran Annual Research Awards
• Prominent Award for book entitled Critical Approach to American Virtual Colonialism, Award for Season Book
• First Award for book entitled as Critical Approach to American Virtual Colonialism, International Annual Cultural Research
• Prominent Media, Art and Cultural Award for Research on Cultural Symbols in the State of Tehran, 40 volumes of reports on theoretical, conceptual, comparative studies and survey with 7910 samples were results of this research
• Top Researcher in the 22nd Festival of Research and Technology University of Tehran
• Especially Selected Awards of the first National Award of ISPA (Student Survey Centre of Iran) in the week of research
• Founder of public relations of the fifth award received by Dr. H. of the 10th International Conference on Public Relations

Books

English

• 2002, Globalization, Americanization and British Muslim Identity, London, ICAS Press.
• 2004, Dual Citizenship: British, Islamic or Both: Obligation, Recognition, Respect and Belonging, London, IHRC, – co- authors, Saied R. Ameli & Arzu Mirali.
• 2004, Social Discrimination: Across the Muslim Divide, London, IHRC, Saied R. Ameli, Manzur Elahi & Arzu Merali
• 2005, Secular or Islamic? What Schools do British Muslims want for their children?, London, IHRC, Co-authors, Saied R. Ameli, Alya Azam, Arzu Mirali.
• 2006, Hijab, Meaning, Power and Politics: British Muslim Women, London, IHRC, Co-authors, Saied R. Ameli and Arzu Mirali.
• 2006, Law & British Muslims: Domination of the Majority or Process of Balance?, London, IHRC, Saied R. Ameli, Beena Faridi, Karin Lindahl and Arzu Merali.
• 2007, The British Media and Muslim Representation: The Ideology of Demonisation, London, IHRC, Saied R. Ameli, Syed Mohammed Marandi, Saeera Ahmed, Seyfeddin Kara, Arzu Merali.
• 2009, Reflections on Palestine, Universality of Liberation Theology: one is Equal to all are Equal to One
• 2011, A Critical Approach to The United States’ Virtual Colonialism: Internet Domination Policy, Tehran, Islamic World Peace Forum and Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran
• 2011, Getting the Message: The Recurrence of Hate Crimes in the UK, London, IHRC Press.
• 2011, "The Organization of Islamic Conference: Accountability and Civil Society", in Jan Scholte (ed.), Building Global Democracy: Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance, Cambridge Press, pp. 146–162.
• 2012 Bibliographical Discourse Analysis The Western Academic Perspective on Islam, Muslims and Islamic Countries (1949-2009), 4 volume of books, London, IHRC (Islamic Human Rights Commission)
• 2012 France and the hated society: Muslim Experiences, Saied R. Ameli, Arzu Merali, Ehsan shahghasemi, IHRC (Islamic Human Rights Commission)
• 2013, Bluetooth Virtual Community: Formation & Functions, Esmaeel Ramezani & Saied Reza Ameli, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing.
• 2013, Once Upon a Hatred: Anti- Muslim Experiences in the USA, Saied Reza Ameli, Ebrahim Mohseni Ahooei, and Arzu Merali, London, IHRC(Islamic Human Rights Commission)

Persian

• 2008: Electronic Public Relations (Dual Spacized Public Relations: Concepts, Theories and Action Plan)
• 2008: Mobile Phone Studies: Moving Life
• 2009: Virtual City of Tehran Studies (Analytic Approach to Public Spaces) Two Volumes

Tehran Virtual City Studies: Analytical Approach to Public Spaces

• 2009: Head Editor: Translation Project of Communication Theories; Four Volumes
• 2009: Virtual Time “Development in Virtual Institues”
• 2009: Virtual Text
• 2009: Scientific Virtual Networks
• 2009: Virtual Research
• 2009: Global City of Tehran
• 2009: Gloablisation and Islamic World
• 2010: Critical Approach to Virtual Colonialism of the U.S.: Cyber Empires and Soft Power
• 2011: Comparative Studies of E-Readiness
• 2011: Dual Spacized View to Pathologies, Crimes, Laws and policies of Cyberspace
• 2011: Civilization Legacy of Iran: From Ancient Iran to the Islamic Revolution, two volumes
• 2011: Globalization Studies: Dual Globalisations and Dual Spacizations
• 2012: National Content in Cyberspace
• 2013: Dual Spacization of Publishing; Fundamentals of Electronic Publishing
• 2013: Research Methods in Media and Cultural Studies

Chapter Books and Introductions

• 2007: Evaluating Iranian Cyberspace
• 2010: Eight Eurocentric Historians, J.M. Blaut
• 2011: “Liberalism and Empire” by Uday Singh Mehta
• 2012: Internet (Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications) [Lorenzo Cantoni, Stefano Tardini]
• 2013: Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire, co-edited by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
• 2013: Religion and Coexistence

Bibliography

External links

• Faculty of World Studies