麻豆传媒

Dr Mohsen Nagheeby is PDRA in Water Security and Policy and co-leader of Water Governance Workstream at . Within this multinational project, Mohsen is collaborating with several researchers and practitioners in Colombia, Ethiopia, India and Malaysia to offer in-depth insights into the issues surrounding water governance. 

Mohsen has over a decade of experience as a senior practitioner in the field of transboundary waters, leading several related multi-disciplinary research projects. He has an interdisciplinary academic and professional background. Mohsen has been involved in several consultancy projects, policy-making and negotiations processes related to transboundary water diplomacy in collaboration with national, regional and international organisations. 

Moving back to academia, Mohsen joined Prof. Alistair Rieu-Clarke at Northumbria School of Law in 2017 and completed his PhD research on "Anarchy and the Law of International Watercourses: Unpacking the role of equitable and reasonable utilisation principle in the pursuit of water conflict transformation".

Research Groups:

• Environment and Sustainability Politics Research Group
• 麻豆传媒 Centre for Water (NUCoRE Water)

Mohsen's work experience and research interests have been mainly on the intersection of international law and politics surrounding transboundary waters. His interests focus on critical analysis of the role of (geo)political dynamics and legal norms in promoting hydropolitical relations towards equitable and sustainable manner. His geographic focus is on the Middle East and Central Asia, in particular, Iran and Afghanistan. His current line of thoughts focuses on "Decolonising Water Diplomacy".

I am currently leading two research projects:

• "Reunited in Dreams: Future Proofing the 1973 Helmand Water Treaty between Afghanistan and Iran", awarded through the BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants Scheme.
• "Decolonising Water Diplomacy", awarded from Geneva Water Hub.

• Transboundary Water Governance
• International Water Law
• Environmental Politics and Policy

• Articles

  • Nagheeby M. . Water Alternatives 2026.
  • Nagheeby M. . Political Geography 2026, 128, 103545.
  • Nagheeby M, Mdee A, Amezaga J, Heller L, Nicol A, Pena-Varon MR, Garcia V M, Bantider A, Kumar A, Zainon Noor Z, Wan Ahmad Tajuddin J, Narayanaswamy L, Figueroa-Benítez A. . Third World Quarterly 2026, 47(3), 614-628.
  • Chun KP, Octavianti T, Bradford L, Reeves M, Nagheeby M, Olusola A, Howard BC, Ceperley N, Castelli G, Nkwasa A, Budiyono Y, Strickert G, Morales-Marin LA, Sutanto SJ, Nóbrega RLB, Diele-Viegas LM, Gopinath D. . Environmental Science & Policy 2026, 178, 104340.
  • Nagheeby M, Mason O, Dajani M, Hussein H. . Environment and Security 2025, 3(4), 610-622.
  • Nagheeby M. . FLOWs 2025.
  • Nagheeby M. . Asian Journal of International Law 2024, 14(1), 25-44.
  • Mdee A, Ofori AD, Cohen J, Kjellén M, Rooney E, Singhal S, Amezaga J, Ankush, Figueroa-Benítez A, Gupta S, Tamiru Haile A, Haileslassie A, Kongo V, Kumar A, Mafla Noguera SA, Nagheeby M, Noor ZZ, Polaine X, Singh N, Sylvester R, Wan Ahmad Tajuddin WAN, Bin Yusop Z, Zúñiga-Barragán J. . Water Alternatives 2024, 17(2), 391-414.
  • Ghoreishi SZ, Mianabadi H, Warner J, Nagheeby M, Vij S, Parvaresh Rizi A, Jafari M, Arfa-Fatolahkhani A. . Water International 2024, 49(5), 664-689.
  • Bantider A, Tadesse B, Mersha AN, Zeleke G, Alemayehu T, Nagheeby M, Amezaga J. . Water 2023, 15(4), 803.
  • Nagheeby M, Rieu-Clarke A, McCaffrey S, Stephan RM, Cascão AE, McIntyre O, Nicol A, Meland A, Hussein H, De Châtel F, Tawfik R, Flowers C, Fantini E, Bateh F. . FLOWs: The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education 2023.
  • Wan Ahmad Tajuddin WAN, Zainon Noor Z, Weng Wai C, Aris A, Nagheeby M, Sa'adi Z, Amezaga J, Abdul Wahid NA. . Journal of Water and Climate Change 2023, 14(10), 3891-3911.
  • Nagheeby M. . The Journal of Water Law 2023, 28(1/2), 13-21.
  • Figueroa-Benitez A, Nagheeby M, Figueroa A, Amezaga J. . Frontiers in Water 2023, 5, 801171.
  • Nagheeby Mohsen, Amezaga Jaime. . Water Policy 2023, 25(8), 835–850.
  • Nagheeby M, Warner J. . Water Alternatives 2022, 15(3), 551-573.
  • Nagheeby M. . Global Water Forum 2022.
  • Nagheeby M. . EJIL:Talk! 2022.
  • Nagheeby M. . The Student Journal of Professional Practice and Academic Research 2020, 2(1).
  • Nagheeby M, Piri M, Faure M. . Transnational Environmental Law 2019, 8(2), 247-278.
  • Nagheeby M, Warner J. . International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 2018, 18(6), 839-860.

• Book Chapter

  • Nagheeby M, Rieu-Clarke A. . In: Kittikhoun A; Schmeier S, ed. River Basin Organizations in Water Diplomacy. Routledge, 2020.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Nagheeby M. . In: The Seventh Finnish Colloquium of Middle East and North African Studies. 2024, Tampere, Finland: Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME).
  • Nagheeby Mohsen. . In: 20th Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. 2023, Joensuu, Finland: University of Eastern Finnland.

• Edited Book

  • Nagheeby M, Amezaga J, Mdee A, ed. . 麻豆传媒 upon Tyne, UK: Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub, 2023.

• Online Publication

  • Nagheeby M. . 麻豆传媒 upon Tyne, UK: The UKRI GCRF Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub, 2024. Available at: .

• Report

  • Nagheeby M, Lawson E, Amezaga J. . Decentralised Water Technologies Project, 2026.