Journal Paper

1. "Cosmology, identity and food related rituals among the Mandaeans"
   Mehrdad Arabestani
   Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, Vol. 1, No 189, pp.203-226, 2020
2. "The fatherless society: Discourse of the hysteric in Iran"
   Mehrdad Arabestani
   Psychoanalysis Culture & Society, Vol. 24, No 4, pp.520-536, 2019
3. "Landscape and Constructs in the Mandaean Culture: Immediacy and Temporality"
   Mehrdad Arabestani
   Art and civilization of the ORIENT, Vol. 6, No 19, pp.18-23, 2018
4. "Life Skills Training Among 7-13 Years Old Afghan Refugee Children in Rafsanjan Camp, Kerman, Iran"
   Nasrin Emami Naeini, Said Nouroozi Javinani, Mehrdad Arabestani
   International Clinical Neuroscience Journal, Vol. 4, No 2, pp.72-76, 2017
5. "The Mandaeans’ Religious System: From Mythos to Logos"
   Mehrdad Arabestani
   Iran and the Caucasus, Vol. 20, pp.261-276, 2016
6. "Ritual Purity and the Mandaeans' Identity"
   Mehrdad Arabestani
   Iran and the Caucasus, Vol. 16, No 2, pp.153-168, 2012
7. "Organizational Strategies and Conflictual Discourses"
   Manouchehr Ansari, Mehrdad Arabestani, Amir Khanlari, Masoumeh Javaherian, Hoda Jebelli
   Quarterly Journal of Cultural Studies and Communication, Vol. 19, No 3, 2023
8. "The Analysis of individual-Contextual Cultural Identity Elements in Formation and Stability of Ethnic Identity of Turkish People in Iranian Azerbaijan"
   اکرم سلطانپور اشتبینی, Mehrdad Arabestani, Bagher Sarokhani
   Cultural sociology, Vol. 13, No 3, pp.83-109, 2022
9. "Identifying and Prioritizing the Elements of Cultural Identity in the Creation and Stability of the Identity of the Turkish Ethnicity"
   اکرم سلطانپور اشتبینی, Mehrdad Arabestani, Bagher Sarokhani
   Sociological Journal of Social Institutions, Vol. 8, No 18, pp.89-113, 2022
10. "The feeling of loss is the main reason of emigration"
    Mehrdad Arabestani
    Ayandenegar, Vol. 1, No 113, pp.63-64, 2021
11. "Gargur Fishing as a Total Social Fact: an on local knowledge, local techniques, environment, development, and social relations in Genaveh"
    Mohsen EBRAHIMI, Mehrdad Arabestani
    Indigenous Knowledge, Vol. 7, No 14, pp.49-85, 2021
12. "The Mandaeans and their Changing World"
    Mehrdad Arabestani
    Journal of Iranian Anthropological Research, Vol. 9, No 1, pp.31-49, 2019
13. "The Mandaeans: cosmology, landscape and constructs"
    Mehrdad Arabestani
    Art and civilization of the ORIENT, Vol. 6, No 19, pp.16-21, 2018
14. "From native anthropology to fieldwork with the natives"
    Mehrdad Arabestani
    Shia Horizons, Vol. 1, No 1, pp.47-52, 2018
15. "New Year (ritual)."
    Mehrdad Arabestani
    Vol. 2, No 2, pp.595-596, 2016
16. "Family in the Southeast Asia"
    Mehrdad Arabestani
    Vol. 22, No 1, pp.48-38, 2016
17. "Kinship"
    Mehrdad Arabestani
    Vol. 22, No 1, 2016
18. "Election and the ignored minorities: voice and ethno-religious geopolitics"
    Mehrdad Arabestani
    Journal of Socio-Cultural Knowledge, Vol. 1, No 3, 2015

Conference Paper

1. "The surviving Gnostics with an emphasis on the Mani Daoist denominatio n in Qingtian, China"
   Mehrdad Arabestani, Yang Der-Ruey
   Manichean Tradition Hiding Inside Daoism in Qingtian: Intellectual Importance and Research Ideas, 2024
2. "Politics of Anthropology of Iran"
   Mehrdad Arabestani
   Identity, Separation, and Belonging, 2023
3. "Material Mediators of the Non-material: Objects, Materiality, and Change in Mandaean Religious Practice"
   Mehrdad Arabestani
   Materialities of Everyday Religiosity: Historical and Contemporary Dynamics in Turkey and Iran, 2021
4. "Cultural Heritage: afterwardness, antagonism and hegemony"
   Mehrdad Arabestani
   Reinventing Cultural Heritage, 2020
5. "Complicated Grief During the Corona Epidemic in Iran"
   Mehrdad Arabestani
   Iterations of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Themes and Problem Spaces in Turkey, Iran and Germany, 2020
6. "Desire to leave: a study on emigration in the Iranians intersubjectivity"
   Mehrdad Arabestani
   Foi en actes, 2020
7. "Ethnographic Practice in Iran: Politics and Precarity"
   Mehrdad Arabestani
   No Country for Anthropologists: Ethnographic in the Contemporary Middle East, 2018
8. "Everybody Used to Have a Cow Back Then We Used to Make Cheese, to ,We Have Three Geese on the Roof Two are Mine! Challenges in Ahvazi Mandaeans Food Norms"
   Mehrdad Arabestani, Marta Marsano
   Food and Society, 2017
9. "Food Habitus: The Iranian's Food Choice in Malaysia"
   Mehrdad Arabestani, Ashraf Namakyan
   Food and Society, 2017
10. "Encoding the Mandaean’s Rituals : The Threatened Identity of an Ethno-religious Minority"
    Mehrdad Arabestani
    Le fait religieux en Iran: état des lieux de la recherche et perspectives de coopération, 2015
11. "Precarity in Iranian Academy: an introduction"
    Mehrdad Arabestani
    Social and Cultural Studies on Higher Education, Science and Technology, 2019
12. "The degital: exploring the possibilities of "being""
    Mehrdad Arabestani
    Virtual Space: Opportunities and Chanllanges, 2016