Dr. Guitty Khorsand-Tabatabai has been a visiting professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School since 2004. Professor Khorsand-Tabatabi (Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes-Etudes, Paris, 1979) has taught such courses as Middle East through Films, Women in the Muslim World, Politics of Islamic Radicalism, Muslims in Europe and the United States, Islamic Political Thought, and Middle Eastern Political Systems. She has previously worked as a TV correspondent, author, translator and university professor in Iran and France.