Seyedeh Behnaz Hosseini completed her doctoral research with a focus on Yārsān, a religious minority in Iran, and forced migration in the Department of Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies in University of Vienna. Her research interests include religious minorities in Iran and Iraq, forced migration and integration. Currently she is a visiting researcher in the Department of Sociology in the University of Alberta, where she is working on a research project about Iranian religious minorities.