Received a BA in Archaeology, followed by a Masters in Public Archaeology, both at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL.
Currently Honorary Research Assistant at IoA, UCL.

Hashemi, A & Arab, R., ‘Tataloo and His Multiple Morphologies’ in Iran Amplified, One hundred Years of Music and Society (editors. Nahid Siamdoust & Houchang Chehabi) Ilex Foundation, Harvard University Press, Expected Dec 2025.   Arab, R & Saeed Zeyabadi-Nejad editors of ‘Iranian Cinema’, The Middle East in London LMEI. Volume 15 – Number 2 February–March 2019.   Arab, R. & N. Earl. 2011. ‘Persians, Classics and Secondary Education’, The Journal of Classics Teaching, no. 24, Autumn 2011: 11-14.   Arab, R. 2010. ‘Open letter on Iranian heritage’. Public Archaeology. Vol 9, No 2: 108-120.    Arab, R. 2009. ‘Theodore Wertime’. Encyclopaedia Iranica.      Arab. R & Rehren.Th 2004. ‘The pyrotechnological expedition of 1968’. In: Th. Stöllner, R. Slotta and A. Vatandoust, eds), Persiens Antike Pracht, Bergbau Handwerk Archäogie, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, Bochum: 550-555.

The Socio/Political and economic uses and abuses of the past in the present, involving the study of ownership, rights of interpretation, dissemination, preservation and presentation of the past. Since 2015, research into the changing use and presentation of music and musicianship in Iranian films and what it might reveal about attitudes to, and perceptions of, music in Iranian society.

Independent Scholar