The Saudi-Iranian rivalry is raising sectarian tensions in Malaysia and threatening its security.
Julia Roknifard
Julia Roknifard is the Director of Foreign Policy at EMIR Research, a Kuala Lumpur based think-tank. She is also a research fellow at the National Res... earch University "Higher School of Economics" and a consultant for PIR Center, a Moscow based think-tank specialising on the matters of international security. She holds a PhD in History of International Relations from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and MA in Muslim World Issues from the International Islamic University Malaysia.