About William Figueroa

Dr. William Figueroa is a recent graduate of the History PhD program at University of Pennsylvania, where he specialized in historical and contemporary Sino-Iranian relations. He has written a dissertation on the history of Sino-Iranian relations called “China and the Iranian Left: Transnational Networks of Social, Cultural, and Ideological Exchange, 1905-1979”, and has written about modern Sino-Iranian relations for Jadaliyya, Entekhab, The Diplomat, and Mondoweiss. He has also conducted interviews on the 25 year China-Iran Strategic Cooperation Agreement for international media outlets like BBC Persian, Newsweek, and Iran International. He tweets on the history and future of Sino-Iranian relations @IranChinaGuy