Nasrin Akhter is a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where her research focuses on Syria’s relations with Hezbollah and Hamas from the mid-1980s to the present.

Akhter is also a research assistant at the Center for Syrian Studies (CSS) at the University of St. Andrews. Prior to joining the CSS, Akhter worked as an English tutor for the British Council in Damascus and as an English-language examiner at International House in Tehran. 

Her research project, “The Syrian-Hezbollah-Hamas Nexus: Understanding the Dynamics of a Complex Alliance,” focuses on Syria’s relationship with foreign Islamist movements over the past few decades.