He holds a PhD in Contemporary Arab and Islamic Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a Master's Degree in Asian and African Studies, specializing in the Middle East, from El Colegio de México. He has postdoctoral studies at the Center for Research and Higher Studies on Social Anthropology (CIESAS) and is a member of several organizations such as the Forum of Researchers of the Arab and Muslim World (FIMAM) and the Latin American Association of Asian and African Studies (ALADAA). He is currently a full-time tenured "A" professor at the Center for International Relations of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the UNAM where he directs the Middle East Studies Workshop. He is the author of the text " The People' s Fighters of Iran: history, rise and fall of an Islamo-Marxist opposition", UNAM (2020) and coordinator of the book "Iran 40 years after its revolution: society, state and foreign relations", UNAM (2020). His research interests are Contemporary Social Movements in the Middle East, Political Actors and International Relations of Iran and Sectarianism and Social Justice in the Middle East. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of CONACYT at Level I.
The story of the People's Combatants of Iran (Moyahedin-e Jalq-e Iran) is the sad saga of the noblest hopes and aspirations of a revolutionary mobilization that became distorted over time into a set of betrayals that let down each and every revolutionary ideal of 20th century Iran. This distortion transformed them into a vulgar and violent cult that abandoned even its own promises of change and social justice, so that it is safe to say that the story of the Moyahedin sums up in itself the best and the worst of contemporary Iranian political culture.
This book is a long-term and unique Spanish-language research on this controversial organization. It is a manuscript elaborated with the help of primary sources, interviews with Iranian politicians, activists, former members and intellectuals specialized in the subject, and the result of a series of research stages carried out between 2011 and 2019 in Tehran, Madrid, Paris, Washington and New York, in which the necessary material was recovered to document the trajectory of the group and its ways of articulating interests with political actors as varied as Ayatollah Khomeini and Saddam Hussein to people like John Bolton and Turki Al Fasal, for whom this group has been attractive throughout its history not so much for its ideology, but for the military potential and the information networks it has always had inside Iran.