Background
Vali was born in 1949 in Mahabad, Iranian Kurdistan.
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He then received his Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from the University of London in 1983.
Career
He received his primary and secondary education in Tabriz. He obtained a Bachelor in Political Science from the National University of Iran in 1973. He then moved to the United Kingdom to continue his graduate studies in modern political and social theory.
He obtained an Master of Arts in Politics from the University of Keele in 1976.
This was followed by a post-doctoral research fellowship funded by the Economic and Social Research Council in 1984. Abbas Vali began his academic carrier in 1986 in the Department of Political Theory and Government at the University of Wales, Swansea.
He was invited by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to establish and lead a new university in Erbil in 2005. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kurdistan before he was removed for disagreements with the KRG over the management of the university in May 2008.
Professor Vali has since been teaching Modern Social and Political Theory in the Department of Sociology at Bogazici University in Istanbul.
