Neema Parvini

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| known_for = Elite theory, historic recurrence, literary criticism

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Neema Parvini is a British YouTuber, academic, and writer. He is currently a senior fellow at the Centre of Heterodox Studies at the University of Buckingham.{{cite web |title=Heterodox Centre |url=https://www.heterodoxcentre.com/about-us/ |access-date=14 April 2024}} He has worked at Richmond American University London,{{Cite web|title=Dr Neema Parvini|url=https://www.richmond.ac.uk/school-of-liberal-arts/dr-neema-parvini/#toggle-id-3|website=richmond.ac.uk|publisher=Richmond, The American International University in London|date=|access-date=16 July 2023}} Brunel University of London,{{Cite web |title=Neema Parvini |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3223-754X |website=orcid.org |date= |publisher=ORCID |access-date=26 July 2023 }} Royal Holloway, and the University of Surrey.

He was trained as a literature scholar, and his books on William Shakespeare mainly discuss the influence of new historicism, cognitive approaches to Shakespeare studies, and ethical thinking in Shakespeare's works. He has written for the online magazine Quillette{{Cite web |title=Neema Parvini |url=https://quillette.com/author/neema-parvini/ |website=Quillette |date= |access-date=26 July 2023 }} and the Ludwig von Mises Institute,{{Cite web |title=Neema Parvini |url=https://mises.org/profile/neema-parvini |website=Ludwig von Mises Institute |date=5 July 2018 |access-date=5 September 2023 }} and has spoken at the think tank Traditional Britain.{{Cite web |title=Traditional Britain Conference - October 8th, 2022 |url=https://traditionalbritain.org/events/traditional-britain-conference-october-8th-2022/ |website=Battle of Ideas |date=8 October 2022 |publisher=Traditional Britain |access-date=26 July 2023 }} Parvini is a member of the Heterodox Academy and the Evolution Institute, and attended the Battle of Ideas event run by the Institute of Art and Ideas.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Neema Parvini |url=https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/2018/speaker/dr-neema-parvini/ |website=Battle of Ideas |date= |access-date=26 July 2023 }} He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Heterodox Social Science.{{Cite web |title=Our People |url=https://www.heterodoxcentre.com/about-us/#our-people |website=Centre for Heterdox Social Science |date= |access-date=16 March 2024 }}

Parvini discusses political theories on the rule of elites on his YouTube page "Academic Agent".{{cite web | title=Book review: The Populist Delusion | last=Adams | first=Alexander | website=Bournbrook Magazine | date=May 6, 2022 | url=https://www.bournbrookmag.com/home/book-review-the-populist-delusion-by-neema-parvini | access-date=September 5, 2023}}

In Bournbrook Magazine, Alexander Adams describes Parvini's book The Populist Delusion as "an informative, succinctly-written and accessible handbook for those who wish to understand the core principles of elite theory discussed by reactionaries and the dissident right".{{r|bourn}}

In 2024 the advocacy group Hope not Hate described his views as "extreme" in nature.{{cite web | title=State of hate 2024 | url=https://hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/state-of-hate-2024-v15.pdf|page=127|editor=Nick Lowles|publisher = Hope not Hate}}{{cite web | title=Case File | url=https://hopenothate.org.uk/case-files-neema-parvini/}} The group also specifies that he has "a large international following" and "has spoken at a range of conferences. These included the Traditional Britain Group in 2022 and 2023, Nomos in London alongside Colin Robertson (AKA Millennial Woes), and Scyldings alongside Carl Benjamin (AKA Sargon of Akkad) and Curtis Yarvin."