If you are working on an academic publication and have requests or questions, please e-mail us at [email protected]. We are open to collaborations and appreciate any feedback. GAMAAN’s work has been cited in academic journals such as the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology of the Middle East, and Secular Studies, and in books published, among others, by Oxford University Press, New York University Press, De Gruyter, and Routledge. In 2022, GAMAAN was awarded the Market Research Society’s President’s Medal in London for making an “extraordinary contribution to research.” In 2024, GAMAAN’ member Pooyan Tamimi Arab was awarded a Vidi grant by the Dutch Research Council for a project titled Iran’s Secular Shift (2025-2030) and together with Ammar Maleki they are working on a monograph on this topic based on GAMAAN’s research. GAMAAN presents their work at international academic conferences and universities and at events for the general public. 

Journal articles/book chapters/reports:

• Tamimi Arab, Pooyan, and Maleki, Ammar. Forthcoming. “Unbelief and Nonreligiosity in Iran: Survey Evidence for Nationwide Phenomena.” In The Oxford Handbook of Apostasy and Religious Deconversion, edited by Phil Zuckerman and Alexandr Zamușinski.    
• Tamimi Arab, Pooyan, and Maleki, Ammar. 2025. Iran : une société sécularisée, diverse et dissidente. Paris: Fondapol.  
• Tamimi Arab, Pooyan, and Maleki, Ammar. 2025. “The secular-religious divide in Iran: An analysis of GAMAAN’s online surveys.” In Nonbelievers, Apostates, and Atheists in the Muslim World, edited by Jack D. Eller and Natalie Khazaal. London: Routledge, 93-123.  

• Stausberg, Michael, Tamimi Arab, Pooyan, and Maleki, Ammar. 2023. Survey Zoroastrians: Online Religious Identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 62(4): 823-844.

Presentations (selection):

• Maleki, Ammar, and Tamimi Arab, Pooyan. 2025. WAPOR Webinar: Anonymity Sampling for Measuring Hidden Opinions in Authoritarian Contexts. 
  
• Maleki, Ammar. 2025. Revealing the Hidden: The Pitfalls of Conventional Surveys in Authoritarian Contexts. Workshop on the ethical and methodological challenges of doing research in authoritarian countries. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Tamimi Arab, Pooyan. 2024. Can Online Non-Probability Surveys Work in an Islamic Republic? Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Pittsburgh.
• Maleki, Ammar. 2024. Prospects for Change in Iran Based on Findings from GAMAAN Surveys (in Persian). University of Toronto. 
• Stausberg, Michael; Tamimi Arab, Pooyan; Maleki, Ammar. 2023. Survey Zoroastrians: Online Religious Identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Tenth European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University.
• Tamimi Arab, Pooyan. 2023. ‘The Game is Over’: Deveiling and Secularity in Contemporary Iran. Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities. Leipzig University.
• Tamimi Arab, Pooyan. 2023. What GAMAAN’s data shows about Iranians’ revolutionary sentiments. In conversation with Masih Alinejad; see the presentation starting at 16:00. De Balie, Amsterdam.