2025 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Host Organization: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Website: http://carnegieendowment.org
Organization Profile: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a unique global network of policy research centers in Russia, China, Europe, the Middle East, India, and the United States. Our mission, dating back more than a century, is to advance peace through analysis and development of fresh policy ideas and direct engagement and collaboration with decision-makers in government, business, and civil society. Working together, our centers bring the inestimable benefit of multiple national viewpoints to bilateral, regional, and global issues.
We are 120 thinkers and doers from diverse disciplines and perspectives spread across more than twenty countries and six global centers working together as one network to advance international peace
City: Washington D.C
Internship format: In-person
Department Profile: Middle East Program
Work description: Assist Senior Fellow Karim Sadjadpour with research on Iran and the Arab world for a book to be published by Random House/Knopf.
Karim Sadjadpour is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Iran and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. He is a regular contributor to the Atlantic and has also written for Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Economist, and the Washington Post. He is a frequent guest on the PBS NewsHour, NPR, Charlie Rose, and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, and has also been on the Colbert Report, the Today Show, and NPR’s Fresh Air.
Sadjadpour regularly advises senior U.S., European, and Asian officials and has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress. He has lived in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East (including both Iran and the Arab world) and speaks Persian, Italian, Spanish, and proficient Arabic. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, teaching a class on U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East.
He has written on Iran and the Middle East through the prism of neuroscience, cinema, satire, and sexuality, and his recent publications include “Ayatollah Machiavelli: How Ali Khamenei Became the Most Powerful Man in the Middle East.” He was previously an analyst with the International Crisis Group, based in Tehran and Washington. In 2007, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Number of Opening(s): 1
Work Hours and Internship Start/End Dates: (Monday to Friday, June 16 – August 8, 2025): Full time/ Five days a week
Work Attire: Business casual, Friday is off in the summer
Local Language Needed (One-year level at Stanford): Persian and/or Arab reading skills would be a plus
Additional desired intern qualifications: Diligent/meticulous researcher, excellent/clear writer.
- Priority will be given to students enrolled in the Global Studies Iranian Studies Minor.
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