Elisabeth Yarbakhsh is a researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia) at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Honors), majoring in anthropology and development studies, and a Bachelor of Asian Studies, majoring in Urdu/Persian and contemporary Asian societies, both from ANU. Dr. Yarbakhsh completed her PhD in 2017.