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Abbasian, Kaveh
University of Roehampton, London
After studying Cinema/Montage at the Tehran University of Art, Kaveh Abbasian started his MA in documentary practices at the Roehampton University of London in 2008. He continued with a PhD in Film and Television studies at the same institution in 2014 where he also currently works as a visiting lecturer. His practice based PhD research is titled 'Documentary films and national identity: Morteza Avini’s TV series ‘Chronicle of Triumph’ and the role of state-funded war documentaries in the construction of Iranian national identity in the Islamic Republic of Iran during the Iran-Iraq War'. In 2016, Kaveh was awarded a four month research fellowship with the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. which he undertook. Apart from and also as part of his academic responsibilities, he has been making documentary films regarding social and political issues. His last documentary film was titled ‘Last Summer in Europe’ which was a self-reflective film around the topic of political refugees in Europe. He is currently working on an essay documentary on the topic of memory and war.
Abbasian, K and Thornton, E (2016) ‘Stasis and the State: The Role of Nomadic Forces in the Thought of Deleuze and Guattari and the Formation of Iranian National Identity.’ Logios Journal, Vol 1
Abbasian, K (2016) ‘Iran-Iraq War and The Sacred Defence Cinema.’ Journal of The Iran Society
Iranian National Identity,
Iranian Cinema,
Sacred Defence Cinema,
Iranian Revolution,
Shi'ism in Iranian Cinema,
Exilic Cinema,
Diasporic Cinema,
Iranian Documentary Cinema
Al-Masaoodi, Amjed
University of Western Australia
PhD Candidate ‘Technology effect on economic development in the Arab countries’, “B.A Graduating Research, 2006”.
‘Chinese orientation toward Africa: study in effect of two variables: Political and Economic’, “M.A. Thesis, 2009”.
‘International relations and its impact on human development in Iraq.’ “Paper presented to the Ministry of Planning in Iraq, 2012”.
Iraqi politics and International Relations
‘U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East in the 21st century - a prospective study’, “Research published in the strategic report of Hammurabi Center 2012”.
‘The deterioration of economic life in Iraq’, research published in the journal of Hammurabi center.
Bakhshizadeh, Marziyeh
Ruhr University Bochum
Marziyeh is a PhD candidate in Social Science at the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. My dissertation is about women’s rights in the main Interpretations of Islam in Iran after the 1979 revolution.
- 2011, Frauenrechte und drei Lesarten des Islam im Iran seit der Revolution 1979 (Women’s rights and three interpretations of Islam in Iran after the 1979 Revolution), Marcus Hawel (ed.), Work in progress. Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin, 251-259.
- 2012, Religion and women’s movement in Iran, in: Voices from Asian Women Activists, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Sociology of religion and Islamic studies; sociology of emotions; Middle Eastern studies; human dignity human rights and social justice; gender studies, women's movements particularly in the Muslim world
Bank, Charlotte Charlotte Bank (PhD in Arabic, University of Geneva; MA in Near Eastern archaeology and art History, University of Heidelberg) is an art historian and independent curator. From 2013 to 2016 she was a member of the research project “Other Modernities: Patrimony and Practices of Visual Expression Outside the West” at the University of Geneva. From March – May 2016, she was a doctoral fellow at the Orient Institute Beirut. She is a member of the research group Art Production and Art Theory in the Context of Global Migration and is currently preparing the publication of her PhD research on the contemporary Art Scene in Syria 2000 – 2010.
Beigi, Khashayar
University of California
Khashayar Beigi has recently graduated with a PhD in Anthropology from University of California at Berkeley.
The anthropology and history of hospitality and migration between Iran and former territories of the Soviet Union in particular Central Asia and the Caucasus
Bortolazzi, Omar Dr. Bortolazzi holds a PhD in History at the University of Bologna and a PhD in Political Science at Science Po Panthéon Paris. He has
Dr. Bortolazzi’s research interests mainly focus on political development in the
American University in Dubai
worked at the University of Bologna as Associate Researcher and Assistant Professor at the History, Anthropology and Cultures Department and as coordinator of the Philanthropy and Social Innovation Research Centre (PHaSI, University of Bologna) for several years. He has also worked as an associate editor of the academic journal “Giving - Thematic Issues in Philanthropy and Social Innovation” for five years.
Dr. Bortolazzi joined AUD in January 2016, where he teaches various courses relating to Political Science and International Relations.
MENA region, international relations, political theory, civil society and political movements in the Arab/Islamic world and in comparative perspective, contemporary Lebanon, class formation and economic resources.
Breyley, GJ
Monash University
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=W4FRezcAAAAJ&hl=en
2016: GJ Breyley and Sasan Fatemi, Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond (Routledge).
Cultural histories of Central and West Asia and the region’s diasporas
Music, film, literature, theatre and art of Iran and Iranian diasporas
Brosch, Ricarda
Museum für Asiatische Kunst Berlin
Castellanos, Diego
National University of Colombia
PhD: History, National University of Colombia MA: Religious Studies, Florida International University BA: Anthropology, National University of Colombia 2015: Researcher, Social Studies of Religion Center. National University of Colombia.
2014: Assistant Professor, Human Sciences Faculty. Rosario University.
Islam en Bogota: Presencia inicial y diversidad (2010).
Mut’ah: usos y adaptaciones de una práctica matrimonial islámica en el Pacífico colombiano (2016).
El Islam enriquece la diversidad religiosa en Bogotá (2008).
Sufismo en Colombia: entre el fundamentalismo y el New Age (2011).
Elementos para una periodización de la historia de la comunidad musulmana de Buenaventura (2014).
Working paper: Islam in Colombia: Between Assimilation and Exclusion (2010).
Lebanese diaspora, Muslim minorities in Latin America, perceptions about the Americas in the Ottoman empire.
2012–2013: Instructor, Center for Theology and Religious Studies. Rosario University.
2010–2012: Teaching Assistant / Instructor. Florida International University.
2008–2010: Instructor, Center for Theology and Religious Studies. Rosario University.
2007–2009: Instructor. Lutheran Theology School.
Etnicidad y religión en la comunidad musulmana de Buenaventura (2014).
Bases religiosas para la realización de autopsias en el judaísmo y en el islam (2011).
Debian, Riham
Alexandria University, Egypt
Lecturer at the Institute of Applied Linguistics and Translation
Packaging Zainab Al-Ghazali: the Gendered Politics of Translation and the Production of 'moderate' Muslim Sister and Islamism", Presented at Cultural Politics of Translation, Cairo University & University of Manchester. Published in International Relations and Diplomacy. 2017. Vol. 5. No.4. New York: David Publishing Company.
"Dream Deferred: A Girl Named Dhat and the Production of Gender in Translation." Presented at the 20th International Philadelphia Conference, Amman-Jordan. Published in Bulletin of Faculty of Arts. 2016. Issue 82.
"From My Sisters' Lips: Diasporic Rendering of 'Muslim Sisterhood'" Presented at Literature and Language of Resistance. The 12th Symposium on Comparative Literature. Cairo University. Published in Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Comparative Literature, “The Language and Literature of Resistance” Cairo: Cairo University Press.
“Egypt’s Translating Democracy: A Model in the Making.” Presented at Invitation to Discourse: Normative Concepts in Transformation in the Arab Spring and Beyond. Cairo University & Freie Universitat & Clusters of Excellence “Normative Orders”. In Journal of the Faculty of Commerce for Scientific Research Jan 2015, vol. 52. No 1.
“Arab Feminism” in Women Writing Africa: the Northern Region New York: Feminist Press, 2005.
“Winds of Change: Egypt’s Islamic Family Law between Two Centuries.” (1920-2013). In North African Women After the Arab Spring: In the Eye of the Storm. Palgrave Macmillan: Switzerland, 2017.
Literary Criticism
Cultural Criticism
Gendered Citizenship
Translation and Gender Studies, with a special focus on Gender in Translation and Third World/ Arab women’s identities and feminisms in the modern era of late capitalism
Beyond the Purdah of the Mind: Arab Women Tell Their Stories. Saarbrucken: OmniScriptum, 2014.
Beyond The Nation: Third World Women’s Identity Politics and the Production of Glocality. Saarbrucken: OmniScriptum, 2014.
Dowran, Behzad
Iranian Research Institute for Information Science & Technology
PhD in sociology, faculty member and deputy of research in Iranian Research Institute for Information Science & Technology (IranDoc);
Social (familial, peer group, national and religious) identities Computer mediated communication (CMC) Information society
Erol, Ayhan
Dokuz Eylul University
Ayhan EROL is Professor of Musicology at Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey, where he teaches courses on theory of ethnomusicology, cultural studies of music, sociology of music, music history, and popular music studies. He holds a PhD in ethnomusicology (2000) He is the author of two books: Populer Muzigi Anlamak, 2002) and Muzik Uzerine Dusunmek (Istanbul: Baglam Yayınları, 2009). His work has appeared in renowned scholarly journals, including Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Social Compass, and European Journal of Cultural Studies. Dr. Erol is the chair of Turkish branch of the IASPM.
Erol, Ayhan (2017) “The Glocality of Islamic Popular Music: The Turkish Case”, Routledge Global Popular Music Series, Made in Turkey, Routledge.
Erol, Ayhan (2016) “Muslum Gurses”, the Encyclopaedia of Islam, EI3, Brill.
Erol, Ayhan (2012) “Identity, Migration, and Transnationalism: Expressive Cultural Practices of the Toronto Alevi Community”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 38 (5): 833-849. (SSCI)
Erol, Ayhan (2012) “Music, Power, and Symbolic Violence: The Turkish State’s Music Policies During the Early Republican Period”, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 15 (1) 35-52. (SSCI)
Erol, Ayhan (2011) “Understanding Diversity of Islamic Identity in Turkey Through Popular Music: Global/Local Nexus”, Social Compass, 58 (2) : 187-202. (SSCI)
Erol, Ayhan (2010) “Alevi Kimliğini Diasporada Müzakere Etmek: Toronto Alevi Göçmenlerinin İfade Kültürü Pratikleri”, Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi, 56 (4):39.60. (AHCI)
Erol, Ayhan (2010) “Controlling National Identity and Reshaping Public Taste: The Turkish State’s Music Policies in the 1920s and 1930s”, Musicology Today, vol. 7, 136-159.
Erol, Ayhan (2010) “Re-Imagining Identity: the Transformation of the Alevi Semah”, Middle Eastern Studies, 46 (03):375-387. (SSCI)
Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Popular Music Studies
Erol, Ayhan (2009) “Marketing the Alevi Musical Revival”, Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption, Johanna Pink (ed), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, (165-185).
Erol, Ayhan (2008) “Change and Continuity in Alevi Musical Identity”, The Human World and Musical Diversity: Proceedings from the Fourth Meeting of the ICTM Study Group Music and Minorities in Varna, Bulgaria 2006, Eds. R. Statelova, A. Rodel, L. Peycheva, I. Vlaeva and V. Dimov, Bulgarian Musicology Studies, Sofia (109-117).
Erol, Ayhan (2007) “Associative structure in the perception of music: The case of Turkish Yanık”, Journal of interdisciplinary music studies, 1, (86-97)
Erol, Ayhan (2004) “The Arabesk and its significance in terms of bittersweet feelings” Sentiment doux-amer dans les musiques du monde. ed. Michel Demeuldre. Paris. L’Harmattan. (191-201).
Esmailpour, Nima
Concordia University
Nima Esmailpour is an artist, art historian and educator based in Montreal. He graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London with a MA in Art & Politics and is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Art History at Concordia University.
His research examines shifts in art production enabled by discursive and institutional (trans)formations in the Middle East.
Fatima, Saba
Jamia Millia Islamia
PhD Research Scholar "International Humanitarian law and protection of women" in International Journal of Management and Social Sciences.
Women in Conflict, International Humanitarian law, Refugees, Human rights, West Asia
Fotouhi, Sanaz
Monash University
Sanaz Fotouhi holds a PhD from UNSW where she worked on diasporic Iranian literature in English. She is currently a visiting scholar at Monash, working towards further studying this topic other world literatures in English.
Fotouhi, S. The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora: Meaning and Identity Since the Islamic Revolution, London: I.B Tauris, 2015.
Iranian Studies Iranian literautre World literature in English Postcolonial studies Film Studies
Ghaderi, Farangis
University of Exeter
Farangis Ghaderi completed her PhD in Kurdish Studies at the University of Exeter in January 2016. Her dissertation examines the development of modern Kurdish poetry from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. She has taught Kurdish and Persian languages at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies,
Ghaderi, F. (2015). ‘The Challenges of Writing Kurdish Literary History: Representation, Classification, and Periodisation’. Kurdish Studies Journal. III (1), pp. 101–120.
Ghaderi, F. (2014). ‘Hecî Qadirê Koyî û Peydabûna Netewperweriya Kurdî’ (Haji Qadir Koyi and Kurdish Nationalism). Zarema. I (2), pp. 43–50. [in Kurdish]
Kurdish classical and modern poetry, Kurdish nationalism, modern Kurdish history, comparative literature, diaspora literature
University of Exeter. She is one of the editors of Derwaze, the first Kurdish peer-reviewed journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. She received her BA and MA in English literature from Kurdistan University and Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran), respectively. Her research interests are Kurdish classical and modern poetry, nationalism and modern Kurdish history.
Ghaderi, F. (Forthcoming, June 2016). ‘Serwa: Lêkollîneweyekî Şîkarîy Berawirdkarîyele Şî’rî Kurdî da’ (A Comparative Study of Kurdish Rhyme Schemes) by ‘Ezîz Gerdî: Erbil, Aras. Derwaze, 1 (1). [in Kurdish]
Gould, Rebecca Ruth
University of Birmingham
Rebecca Gould is Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literature, at University of Birmingham. Her books include Writers and Rebels: The Literatures of Insurgency in the Caucasus (2016), which was awarded the University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies as well as a book award from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, and the translator of After Tomorrow the Days Disappear: Ghazals and Other Poems Hasan Sijzi of Delhi (2016), and The Prose of the Mountains: Tales of the Caucasus (2015). Her articles have received awards ranging from the International Society for Intellectual History's Charles Schmitt Prize to the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages Association's Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship. From 2018-2023, she directs the project “Global Literary Theory: Caucasus Literatures Compared,” funded by an ERC Starting Grant.
Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016). ISBN: 978-0300200645. 336pp.
Comparative literature, postcolonial studies, world literature, translation studies, Muslim migration, methodologies of comparison, political theory, literatures of the Middle East & Caucasus, legal cultures
Hamzah, Dyala
Université de Montréal
Dyala Hamzah is assistant professor of Middle East History at the University of Montreal.
Editor of the Routledge volume The Making of the Arab Intellectual in (2013) and author of the upcoming Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865-1935) ou le « Tournant salafiste ». Intérêt général, Islam et opinion publique dans l'Égypte coloniale (Editions du CNRS in France, 2018).
Madrasa curricula 18th-19th century, Nahda, Islamic Reform, Pan-Islam, Pan-Arabism, History of the Mandates, Arab-Israeli conflict, the contemporary Arab public sphere.
Hanna, Kifah
Trinity College, CT
Kifah Hanna is an Associate Professor of Language and Culture Studies and the Head of the Arabic Program at Trinity College in Connecticut, USA. She earned her MSc and PhD in Comparative and General Literature and Middle East Studies at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK.
Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Twentieth and twenty-first century Arabic literature, feminist and queer theory, (trans-)nationalism, (trans-)cultural studies, cinema studies, postcolonial theory, war literature, comparative literature, and world literature.
Holman, Rosa
Monash University
Rosa Holmans holds a Ph.D from UNSW on the topic of Iranian Women’s Cinema.
“Leprosy and the Dialectical Body in Forugh Farrokhzad’s ‘The House is Black’”, Disability in World Film Contexts, Wallflower Press (2015, Forthcoming publication).
“Holding a Mirror to Iran: Liminality and Ambivalence in Shirin Neshat’s ‘Women Without Men’, Screening the Past No 38, (December 2013).
Rosa Holman’s research has primarily investigated the cultural politics and aesthetic practices of Iranian national and diasporic cinema, with particular emphasis on women’s cinema, the influence of poeticism and poetry and representations of disability.
Holman, Zoe Zoe Holman is an Anglo-Australian journalist, academic and writer, specialising in the Arab region. Her work has appeared in outlets including The Guardian, Open Democracy, The Economist, The Sydney Morning Herald, VICE News and Al Jazeera, as well as various poetry and literary journals. Zoe has a History PhD on Britain's foreign policy in the Middle East from the University of Melbourne/SOAS. She currently lives in Greece where she is working on a book about the so-called ‘migration crisis’ in Europe.
Housamedden, Darwish
University of Cologne
Dr. Housamedden Darwish studied philosophy and specialized in Hermeneutics and methodology of social and human sciences. He earned his Master degree in Philosophy at Bordeaux University which was followed in 2010 by his Ph.D. in Philosophy on the French philosopher Paul Ricœur. He
Books: - Paul Ricœur: Problématique de la méthode et herméneutique du dialogue, (Saarbrücken: Presses Académiques Francophones, 2017). (In French) - Critical Texts on Arab Political Thought, Syrian Revolution and Asylum, (Beirut: Arab Scientific Publishers Inc, 2017), (In Arabic) - The Problematique of Method in Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics and its
Arab and Islamic Thought,
Cultural Studies,
Political Philosophy,
Hermeneutics,
Refugee Studies
worked as freelance researcher, visiting researcher, and teaching assistant on the subjects of Eastern philosophy and the Arab uprising, and on transcultural concepts, as well as on Political Islam and Modernity. Dr. Darwish participated in presentations and panel discussions worldwide, with a focus on the Arab and Islamic thought, political and moral philosophy, cultural studies and migration Studies. He has numerous papers and articles in the field of philosophy, politics and Arab and Islamic thought. Furthermore, he published several books about the hermeneutical philosophy and the French philosopher Paul Ricœur as well as about Arab political thought, Syrian revolution and asylum. Currently, Dr. Darwish is Assistant Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies of Cologne University and at the Department of Philosophy of Duisburg-Essen University, Germany.
Relationship to the Humanities and Social Sciences: towards establishing hermeneutics of dialogue, (Doha: Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies, 2016). (In Arabic)
- Paul Ricoeur. La problématique de la méthode et le déplacement herméneutique du texte à l'action et à la traduction. Vers une Herméneutique du dialogue, (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2012). (In French) - Paul Ricoeur et la problématique de la méthode dans l'herméneutique. Interpréter, comprendre et expliquer dans les théories du symbole, du texte, de la métaphore et du récit, (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011). (In French) Articles: - “On the Relationship between Culture and Politics: a Critique of the Culturalist Approach”, 5 Kalamoon, (forthcoming). (In Arabic). - “On the Understanding of Al-Azm’s Thought: between Philosophism, Ideologism and Scientism”, Awraq, (forthcoming). (In Arabic). - “On the Distinction between Critique and Criticism: the Thought of Sadiq Jalal al-Azm as a Case Study”, 1 Kalamoon, May 2017. (In Arabic).
- “The Critique and the (Sexual) Taboo in the Thought of Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm”, Mominoun without Borders Institute, 23 April 2017. (In Arabic).
- “Some Incentives of Al-Azm’s Critique”, 82 Nizwa, April 2015. (In Arabic). - ““Critical Study of Azmi Bishara’s Book” The Arabian Question: Introduction to Arabian Democratic Manifesto”, 43 Alam Al Fiker, 2014, pp. 257-296.
- “An Introduction to the Legitimacy of the Philosophical and Arabic Study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”, 3:10 Tabayyun, 2014. (In Arabic) - “Translation as a Paradigm for Hermeneutics”, 42 al-Tafahom Journal, 2013. (In Arabic)
- “Justice as Recognition: a Preliminary Conceptual Study”, 2:5 Tabayyun, 2013. (In Arabic)
- “Critical Discussion on Mohammed Jamal Parrott's Research about the Syrian Revolution”, Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies, 3 January 2012. (In English).
- “The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur and its Relationship with Religion and Science (2)”, alawan, 11 July 2011. (In Arabic).
- “The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur and its Relationship with Religion and Science (1)”, alawan, 11 June 2011. (In Arabic).
Ince Yenilmez, Meltem
Yasar University
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ince Yenilmez completed her BA in Business Administration and MA in Banking and Finance at Eastern Mediterranean University. She completed her PhD degree in Economics at Afyon Kocatepe University. She has worked as a fellow and given lectures at University of Cambridge, University of California Berkeley, University of California Santa Cruz and Georg-August-Universitat Göttingen. She is interested in the fields of labor economics, economics of gender, occupational segregation and women entrepreneurship. She has published a range of papers and articles in the mentioned fields. Currently, Assoc. Prof. Dr. İnce Yenilmez is giving various courses at undergraduate and graduate levels at Yasar University.
Economics of Gender, Labor Economics, Women at Work, Women Entrepreneurs
Jayasuriya, Sisira
Monash University
Professor Sisira Jayasuriya is a development economist with a focus on economic policy issues in Asia. He has held previous appointments at the International Rice Research Institute (Philippines), the Australian National University, Melbourne University and La Trobe University, and has been a consultant to the Asian Development Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute, World Bank and several United Nations agencies such as ESCAP, FAO and ILO. He is also Honorary Professor at the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics at the Australian National University, Canberra, Institute of Social and Economic Studies, Osaka University, Japan, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi. Prof
Jayasuriya has a BA (Hons in Economics) from the University of Ceylon (Peradeniya), and a Masters and PhD from the Australian National University.
Kars, Aydogan
Monash university
Aydogan earned his PhD in Religion at Vanderbilt University. He worked four years for the Divinity Library at Vanderbilt as the bibliographer in the fields of Islamic Studies and World Religions. During the 2015-2016 academic year Aydogan served as a Visiting Faculty and Dissertation Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the Middle Tennessee State University. Currently he is serving in the Centre for Religious Studies at Monash University as a Lecturer in Islamic and Interreligious Studies.
“Two Modes of Unsaying in Early Thirteenth Century Islamic West: Theorizing Apophasis through Maimonides and Ibn ‘Arabi,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 74.3 (2013), pp.261-278. “Maqasid or Shari‘a? Secularism, Islamic Reform and Ethics in Modern Turkey,” in Maqasid al-Shari‘a and Contemporary Muslim Reformist Thought: An Examination. A. Duderija (Ed.). Palgrave, Macmillan (2014), pp.127-150.
mysticism, theology, philosophy, Islam
Kong, Yuk Chui
Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong
Kong Yuk Chui received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History from Hong Kong Baptist University in November 2017. The topic of dissertation is ‘Jewish Merchants' Community in Shanghai - A Study of the Kadoorie Enterprise, 1890-1950’. She currently teaches as an Assistant Lecturer at the School of General Education and Languages in Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong. Jewish merchants
Li, Xiaoyang
University of Canterbury
Maleki, Kimia
University of Chicago
Marat, Aizhamal
MA in Migration and Intercultural Relations, Oldenburg, BA in Cultural Studies, Hong Kong; have experience in migration-related
migration, asylum, feminisation of migration, labor and migration, diaspora, borders
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
research, diaspora, and asylum in Central Asia, Turkey and EU.
Masoud, Zoya
Technical University of Berlin / Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin
Identity and Heritage in the Middle East
Mendikulova, Gulnara
Satbayev University
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Full Professor of History, Mendikulova Gulnara Malbagarovna (Kazakhstan), Professor of the Department of Social Studies of the Satbayev University, the author of 9 monographs, more than 200 articles published in the world. She speaks Kazakh, Russian, English - fluent, Turkish, French, Latin - with a dictionary. 18 international grants were won, including: 3 US State Department Fulbright grants, and others. The member of the European Geopolitical Forum, Fulbright Association of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Central Eurasian Society, Massachusetts Historical Society, and others.
Monographs and textbooks
1. Contemporary History and geopolitics in Central Asia. Ed. by Gulnara Mendikulova. Almaty: Kazakh University, 2017. – 232 p. (collective international monograph) (in Russian and English)
2. History and Contemporary Development of the Kazakh Diaspora and Irredenta. Almaty: Kazakh University, 2016. – 258 p. (tutorial, textbook) (in Russian)
3. Participation of Kazakhs to the WWII in the Western-European countries. Almaty: Kazakh University, 2014. – 165 p. (in Russian)
Articles 4 ‘Kazakhstan: 19th century to early 20th century’ // Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Online edition. #15, 2017
5 ‘Kazakh Issue and Russian-Chinese State Territorial Demarcation In Central Asia’ // International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. 2016 # 4.
7 Historiography and sources of the problem of the Soviet prisoners-of-war of Kazakh ethnicity in the Second World War // Вестник КазНУ (серия историческая, 2016 , #1. - С. 11-18. (c А. Габдуллиной).
8 The Strategic Partnership between the EU and Central Asian Countries // 55 International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research, 2015. 55-59 (with Raikhan Sadykova)
9 Сравнительный анализ сохранения и трансформации обычаев и традиций у казахов Казахстана, Узбекистана и Монголии // Вестник
Historical and current problems of ethnic politics, the Kazakh Diaspora and Irredenta, Migration in Eurasia, ethnicity, polyethnicity in Central Asia, transnational history, and others.
«Alatoo Academic studies. (Бишкек, Кыргызстан). № 4. 2015. рекомендуемый ККСОН МОН РК. - С. 188-194.
10 Возвращение бриллианта Кохинур: единое достояние или повод для конфликтов между Индией и Великобританией // Вестник современной науки, РОССИЯ, рекомендуемый ККСОН МОН РК. 2015 г., #2. - С. 53-54. (c Д. Каримовой)
11 Влияние колониального / имперского прошлого на взаимоотношения Великобритании и Индии: историография проблемы // Вестник КазНУ серия Историческая, 2015, #4. – С. 41- 45. (с Д. Каримовой)
12 The Kazakh Diaspora in the USA: New Data” // Association of Study of Nationalism, 19th Annual World Convention Columbia University, 24-26 April 2014.
13 The Diaspora Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan // Regional Routes, Regional Roots? Cross-Border Patterns of Human Mobility in Eurasia. – Comparative Studies on Regional Powers. # 14. – Sapporo, March 2014. – (Japan). - p. 77-83
Moosavi, Amir
Brown University
Currently, I am Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Iranian Studies at Brown University. I am a scholar of modern Arabic and Persian literatures and the cultural histories of Iran, Iraq and the Levant, specializing in representations of war and violence. My current manuscript looks at representations of the Iran-Iraq War in Arabic and Persian fiction and poetry.
“Dark Corners and the Limits of Ahmad Dehqan’s War Front Fiction” Middle East Critique, Volume 27, no. 1 (February 2017)
“How to Write Death: Disenchanting Martyrdom in two Novels of the Iran-Iraq War” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, No. 35 (2015)
Review of War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction, by Ikram Masmoudi, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2017)
Review of Conflicting Narratives: War Violence and Memory in Iraqi Culture by Stephan Milich, Friederike Pannewick and Leslie Tramontini, Arab Studies Journal, XXI, No. 1 (fall 2015)
Middle East modern Arabic literature; modern Persian literature; comparative modern Middle Eastern studies; representations of war and violence; Arabic and Persian language pedagogy; translation studies
Moradabbasi Fouladi, Mazda
University of New South Wales, Australia
PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales, School of the Arts and Media, in Sydney, Australia. He received his master’s degree in Dramatic Literature from Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, Iran. His research interests focus on film studies particularly Iranian cinema with a specific
Moradabbasi, Mazda. Word in Frame: Structure of Literary Adaptation in Iranian Cinema. Tehran: Sooremehr, 2011. Print.
_____________. Don't Miss Your Dreams: Analysis of Mohammad Ali Talebi's Children and Youth Film. Tehran: Farabi Cinema Foundation, 2012. Print. _____________. The Lady from Zagros: Cinema of Pouran Derakhshandeh. Tehran: Farabi Cinema Foundation, 2014. Print.
Film studies particularly Iranian cinema with a specific emphasis on the adaptation studies, children films, Iranian filmmakers, and auteurism.
emphasis on adaptation studies, children films, Iranian filmmakers, and auteurism.
Motamedi, Kamran
Monash
A former management consultant, Quality Management System auditor and Industrial engineer who turned to social science. I am studying Arts at Monash, majoring in International Studies.
I have worked with some domestic Iranian newspapers for couple of years in music, literature and economy section, and I've published some short articles on Iranian websites about economic development.
Political Economy, Globalisation, Development, Feminism
Nanquette, Laetitia
University of New south Wales [email protected]
Laetitia is a Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the School of the Arts and Media. She joined UNSW in 2013 as a Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Her current work project as a DECRA Fellow is entitled: "A Global Comparative Study of Contemporary Iranian Literature".
Nanquette L, 2013, Orientalism Versus Occidentalism. Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran Since the Islamic Revolution, IB Tauris, London
She is interested in modern and contemporary Middle Eastern literatures, particularly in Persian literature; the circulation of literature and culture between the Middle East and the diasporas; the relations between the West and the postcolonial world; World Literature; literature and globalization, exile and diaspora literatures.
Nasirpour, Sanaz
The University of Melbourne
She is a PhD candidate in the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne. Her area of research includes gender, diaspora, diasporic activities over the Internet, transnational women’s organizations, feminism and women’s leadership.
(2013) “Efficiency of UN Women in Perpetual Peace” (co-authored with Ziauddin Sabouri & Marzieh Hamidian) - International Relations Research Quarterly, No. 9.
(2011) Cultural Diversity and Cultural Coverage, IISA Newsletter, No. 8, Winter 2011
(2010) “Globalization and Women in Developing Nations (Opportunities and Challenges)”, National Conference on Women and Millennium Development Goals, Islamic Azad University- Khoramabad Branch
Her area of research includes gender, diaspora, diasporic activities over the Internet, transnational women’s organizations, feminism and women’s leadership.
Naziya
Jamia Millia Islamia
Naziya has recently completed her M.Phil in West Asian Studies on ‘Role of U.S. in Democracy Promotion in Egypt since 9/11’ and is currently a doctoral research scholar in Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, working on Indian Diaspora. Furthermore, she holds her bachelors and masters in Political Science.
Her research interests include theories of international relations, soft power diplomacy and Diaspora as a factor.
Nikolotov, Anton
Humboldt Uiniversity, Frei University
Anton is an experimental anthropologist currently completing his PhD at the Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies, Frei University. His research interests are situated at the borders of anthropology of migration, critical affect studies. Having background in art practice (BA Fine from Central Saint Martins College) and MA in Cultural Theory and History from Humboldt University, Anton is exploring the transformations of precarious social worlds and moral economies of migrant traders and alms seekers in Moscow.
‘Volatile Conviviality: joking relations in a marginal marketplace in Moscow', Modern Asian Studies (forthcoming)
Participation in Art and Anthropology, 2015, GRAPA, blog entry
migration and border studies, affect and emotions, art and anthropology, moral anthropology, anthropology of precarity
Ozgur, Ergun
Leibniz- ZMO, Berlin
immigrants, migration, culture, identity, area studies
Palizban, Maryam theatre scholar/cultural theorist, poet, actor, director
Pourgiv, Farideh
Shiraz University
Farideh Pourgiv is Professor of English Literature at the Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shiraz University, Iran and the editor of Persian Literary Studies Journal.
(2016) ‘Transnation and Transgeneration in Zoya Pirzad's We'll get used to it.’ Anthropology of the Middle East 11: 91-99;
(2016) "On the Development of Female Voice in Adrienne Rich." Studia Universitatis Petru Maior. Philologia:, 21 : 71-82;
Zekavat, M. & Pourgiv, F. (2015) ‘Construction of gender identities via satire: The case of Juvenal.’ European Journal of Humour Research 3(1):1-21.
‘Gender Trouble in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.’ Journal of Research in Gender Studies (2013) with Shams.
‘Nabokov’s Ada and The 1001 Nights’ in Marvels and Tales (2012) with Shafiee-Sabet
‘Martha the Mimos: Femininity, Mimesis and Theatricality in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ (2012) with Hoorvash
Simple Poetry. Shiraz: Molk-e Solaiman (2010)
A Handbook for Studying, Shiraz: Shiraz University Press (2002)
Fiction, Comparative studies, Children's literature
Ranjan, Rakesh
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Rakesh Ranjan is a PhD Scholar at the Centre for Studies of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has worked with India Centre for Migration, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. He is also a founding and editorial member of the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), an international think tank based in New Delhi, India. Mr Ranjan has contributed several articles and chapters in national and international referred publications. He has research interest in Diaspora, Entrepreneurship, International Migration, Labour and Development Studies.
Ranjan, Rakesh and Yasin Kerem GÜMÜŞ (2018), Economic Impacts of Migration on UK Labour Markets: The Case Study of Indians in Britan, for book, India Migration Report, 2018: Migrants in Europe, edited by S Irudaya Rajan, New Delhi: Routledge (In press)
Ranjan, Rakesh (2017), Mapping Diaspora Engagement through Entrepreneurial Perspective: Issues and Challenges, for book, Mapping Indian Diaspora: Contestation and Representations, edited by Ajaya K. Sahoo, Jaipur, Rawat Publication.
Ranjan, Rakesh (2016), Migration and Diaspora: What role for Development, GRFDT Research Monograph Series, Delhi: Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism, October 2015. ISSN- 2454-3675
Ranjan, Rakesh (2015), Migration Development Nexus: South Asian Perspective. Roots and Routes, GRFDT Newsletter. VOL.4, No. 7-8, July-August 2015.
Ranjan, Rakesh (2015), Entrepreneurship in Indian Diaspora, E-Pathshala Module, unit ‘Sociology of Indian Diaspora’, Sociology, for University Grant Commission of India, New Delhi.
Ranjan, Rakesh (2015), Remittance and Development: A study of selected villages of Mithilanchal Region of Bihar, GRFDT Research Monograph Series, Delhi: Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism, April 2015. ISSN- 2454-3675.
Ranjan, Rakesh (2015), Indian professional immigrants and the healthcare sector in India, for book, International Migration and Development in South Asia" edited by Md Mizanur Rahman and Tan Tai Yong. London and New York: Rutledge. ISBN- 0415724236.
Ranjan, Rakesh (2014), Social Structure among New Indian Diaspora: A study of United States of America, published by World Focus, January 2014. ISSN- 2230-8458.
Economic Sociology, Qualitative Research, Migration Policy, Labour Studies, Remittance Process, Human Resource Management and, Industrial Relations
Ranwa, Ruchika
Jawaharlal Nehru University
I graduated in Sociology from Miranda house, Delhi University, completed postgraduate studies at Pune University and then a MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU, Delhi). I am currently pursuing my PhD in
dance, gender, culture and state
Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University with dance, gender and caste broadly as my research areas. Simultaneously, I am working as project assistant in a project on MNREGA in conjunction with Uppsala University, Sweden. I previously worked on a project on regional movements in Uttarakhand as research assistant.
Rowshan, Masoud
Association of Iranica in Australasia
I am a trained Librarian by profession with broad experience in academic, research, special, college and public libraries. I have a BA in Anthropology & Sociology, Graduate Diploma in Librarianship and MA in Science & Technology Studies (STS). I have travelled to many countries, been involved with organising various cultural events. My deep interest in Iranian culture and literature has led me to the formation of the Association of Iranica in Australasia.
Art, cultural studies, history, music and musicology
Sahhar, Micaela
University of Melbourne
Micaela Sahhar is an Australian-Palestinian poet and scholar. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2016 which focused on the influence of Israeli national narrative on Western media coverage of two 21st century Israeli authored military assaults on the Occupied Palestine Territories.
Micaela has published in scholarly journals and is a frequent commentator on events in the Israel-Palestinian conflict on radio and in print and online magazines. She currently lectures in the History of Ideas at Trinity College.
Her research interests include comparative settler colonialism, identity and indigeneity in settler-colonial societies and questions of resistance where structures of Occupation have been disrupted by neo-liberal frameworks.
Saparova, Marhabo
Northeastern University
gender, globalization, transnational migration, urban theory
Sathananthar, Arththi
University of Leeds
Arththi Sathananthar is a PhD candidate at the School of English, University of Leeds. Her thesis explores twenty first century diasporic Anglophone life writings from the Arab world in the context of civil conflict in their homelands.
diaspora, exile, postcolonial studies, Middle East studies, cultural theory, home studies, space and place, life writing, memory studies, feminism.
Senay, Banu
Macquarie University
banu.senay@ mq.edu.au
I joined the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University in 2017, after a three-year post-doctoral fellowship in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne. I teach in the areas of anthropology of religion and fieldwork methods. At the moment I am interested in the broad areas of the anthropology of music and learning. My current research on Islamic art pedagogies in Istanbul explores the effects of skill acquisition from a phenomenological perspective. This research engages with important debates in anthropology around skilled-learning, ethics, and Islamic cultural politics. I have secondary research expertise in the areas of migration, transnationalism and diasporic politics. My PhD, awarded in 2010, is a study of the diaspora politics of the Turkish State, and the long-distance nationalism of Turkish immigrants in Australia.
Senay, B. 2013. Beyond Turkey’s Borders: Long-distance Kemalism, State Politics and the Turkish Diaspora. London and New York: I.B. Tauris.
Senay, B. 2015. Masterful Words: Musicianship and Ethics in Learning the Ney. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 21: 524-41.
Senay, B. (2014) Artists, Antagonisms and the Ney in the Popularization of ‘Sufi Music’ in Turkey. European Journal of Cultural Studies.
Senay, B. 2014. The Fall and Rise of the Ney: From the Sufi Lodge to the World Stage. British Journal of Ethnomusicology 23(3): 405-24.
Senay, B. 2013. Seeing for the State: Kemalist Long-Distance Nationalism in Australia. Nations and Nationalism, 19(2): 376-94.
Senay, B. 2011. Trans-Kemalism: The Politics of the Turkish State in the Diaspora. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(9): 1615-33.
Senay, B. 2009. Remembering the “Timeless City”: Istanbul, Memory and Music among Turkish Migrants in Australia. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 30(1): 73-87.
Senay, B. 2009. A “Condition of Homelessness” or a “State of Double Consciousness”? Turkish Migrants and Home-Making in Australia. International Journal on Multicultural Societies, 11(2): 260-77.
Turkish diaspora
Turkish nationalism
Migration and Transnationalism
Islamic pedagogies
Sufi music
Senchan, Nina
University of Leipzig
MA Arabistic (Middle Eastern Studies) at University Leipzig
Middle East, Art, Culture, Sexuality, Youth
Shlapentokh, Dmitry
Indiana University
Associate Professor
Siddique, Muskan
Jamia Millia Islamia
Muskan is a Mphil Research Scholar at Centre of West Asian Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, Central Univeristy, India. She received her schooling from GGSS School, Noor Nagar,
Her area of Interest is West Asia, Gender, India and Gulf relations and Migration.
New Delhi. She completed her Bachelors (Hons.) in Political Science, Masters in Development Extension from Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University. She has presented papers at various national and international seminars on topics related to West Asia. She is currently working on Indian Labour Migration to the Gulf and its socio-economic impact on the families of migrants.
Sienkiewicz, Joanna J.
Bielefeld University
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/soz/personen/sienkiewicz/index.html
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/psp.1905/full Sociology, Social Inequality, Migration, Mixed Methods
Stephan-Emmrich, Manja
Humboldt University
Manja Stephan-Emmrich is a junior professor for Islam in Asian and African Societies at the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. Her current book project comprises a translocal ethnography of the entangled study and work trajectories of young Tajik Muslim migrants in the Gulf and how their experience of migration intersects with personal projects of Islamic reform. A sociocultural anthropologist, her focus of interest is on transnational Islam and Muslim identity in Tajikistan and wider Central Asia. She has published widely on Islamic education, Muslim youth, migration/mobility, Islamic lifestyle and consumption, and on Muslim cosmopolitanism in trading business networks in Dubai.
Transnational Islam and Muslim identity in Tajikistan and wider Central Asia
Suhrawardy, Tasneem
University of Delhi
I am Associate Professor in the History department of St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, a premier institution of India. I have taught Medieval Indian History, Central Asian History, Mongol History and Islamic History at the postgraduate level. I hold a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University,
Central Asians in Mughal India
with a thesis on ‘Central Asians in Mughal India: Migration, Settlement and Impact on North Indian Culture. Circa 1500-1800’. I did my PhD under the guidance of Professor Muzaffar Alam.
Sunar, Kiran
The University of British Columbia, Canada/ Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt, Germany
Kiran Sunar is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Asian Studies and a guest doctoral student at the Max Weber Kolleg for Advanced Social and Cultural Studies. Kiran received her BA (Jt. Hons) from McGill University in Religious Studies and Gender Studies, and an MA from UBC in English Literature focusing on literary representations of diasporic Sikh masculinity. Her PhD project attends to questions of gender, sexuality, and the fantastical with a focus on Punjabi literature in the early modern period. As an interdisciplinary scholar who is also involved in creative work on the complexity of Punjabi identity, Kiran is working on a novel entitled Nerve and is also involved, from time to time, in performance work. Nerve engages alternate readings of Punjabi sexualities, as well as questions of migration, trauma, and agriculture.
gender theory, sexuality studies, critical race theory, queer theory, Punjabi identity, Asian literature, Asian religions, hybridity.
Taiwo, Olatunde
Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria
Deportations, African History
Turan, Burcu (Korucu)
2008-2010: PhD: Atatürk’s Principles and History of Turkish Revolution, Yıldız Technical University, Graduate School of Social Sciences
2007: MA in Political Science and International Relations, Yıldız Technical
2013 “Nazım Hikmet’in Yayınlanmamış İlk Şiirleri”, İnsancıl Journal 275, June, 25–27 (“The First and Unpublished Poems of Nazım Hikmet”)
2011 “Kemal Özer Şiiri’nin İkinci Yeni’den Toplumcu Şiire Yolculuğu”, Simge Özer Pınarbaşı (ed.), Kemal Özer İçin Anı Fotoğrafları, Istanbul: Yordam Publishing (“The Poetic Journey of Kemal Özer from the Second New Movement to Socialist Realism”)
Cultural and intellectual history of Turkey (WWII and Cold War periods)
Intellectuals and politics
University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis: “Türk Hümanizmi”nin Çeviri Boyutu: Tercüme Bürosu ve Tercüme Dergisi (1940–1946) | Translation Aspect of “Turkish Humanism”: Translation Bureau and Tercüme (Translation) Journal (1940 – 1946)
2004: BA in International Relations, Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences
Languages: English, Ottoman script (printed materials)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2016 “Türk Romanında Kalkınma Düşüncesi: 1950–1980“, 8th National Sociology Congress: Sociology in the Age of Diversities, Conflicts and Movements, 1–3 December, Middle East Technical University, Ankara (The Idea of Development in Turkish Novels: 1950–1980)
2015 “The Idea of “Turkish Humanism” and the Translation Activities in Turkey Between 1940-1946: Translation Bureau and the Translation Journal”, 3rd Annual CCCS Conference on Culture and Identity, Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies, 3 – 5 September, Skopje, Macedonia.
2015 “İktisat ile Edebiyat İlişkisi Üzerine Düşünmek”, 4th International Anatolian Congress of Economics, 10–12 June, Anadolu University, Eskişehir (The Relationship Between Economics and Literature)
2014 “Blue Anatolia: A Narrative of Modern Nation Building Within the Context of Mediterraneanism”, World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies WOCMES, 18–22 August, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
2012 “Türk Hümanizmi ve Tercüme Bürosu (1940 – 1946)”, İnsancıl Workshop Seminars, 21 September, İstanbul, Turkey (Turkish Humanism and Translation Bureau 1940 – 1946).
2009 “Orhan Kemal’in İstanbul’dan Çizgiler’inin İzinde: 1960’lar Türkiyesinde Kente Göç ve Kent Yoksulluğu”, 3rd Symposium of History and Literature from Ottoman Empire to the Republic: Spatial Histories and Representations, 06 November, Yıldız Technical University – İstanbul (Following the Footsteps of Orhan Kemal in the Sketches from Istanbul: Urban Migration and Urban Poverty in Turkey in the 1960s)
Historical sociology of cultural and literary translation
History of literary journals
History of books, reading and publishing
Women translators
Comparative literature
History of translation
Uhlendorf, Niels
Leuphana University Lüneburg
2017: PhD 'Migration in the context of late modern demands of self-optimization'
since March 2017: Research assistant (Post Doc) at Leuphana University Lüneburg (Institute for Educational Sciences)
2012-2015: Research assistant in the project 'Aporias of Perfection in Accelerated Societies' (led by Vera King, Benigna Gerisch,
King, V., Schreiber, J., Uhlendorf, N., & Gerisch, B. (2018). Optimising Patterns of Life Conduct – Transformations in Relations to the Self, to Others and Caring. in V. King, B. Gerisch, & H. Rosa (Hrsg.)‚ Lost in Perfection: Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche. London: Routeledge.
Migration, Refugee Studies, Family, Transmission, Socialization
Hartmut Rosa & funded by Volkswagen Foundation)
2009: Adjunct instructor at Hamline University (MN, USA)
2005-2012: M.A. at the University of Trier (Sociology, English Studies, German Studies)
Vicini, Fabio
Istanbul 29 Mayis University
Islam in the Middle East and Central Asia
Vicziany, Marika
Monash University
Emeritus Professor of Asian Political Economy
Yarbakhsh, Elisabeth
Australian National University
elisabeth.yarbakhsh@
anu.edu.au
Elisabeth is a scholar at the Australian National University's Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies - the Middle East and Central Asia. She is currently exploring spatial contestations between Iranian citizens and Afghan refugees in the Iranian city of Shiraz and has a broader interest in policy and social factors impacting refugees across the Middle East and beyond.
2014 'Green Martyrdom and the Iranian State' Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 28: 1
Refugees Anthropology in and of Iran
Yazdani, Nasim
Deakin University
Nasim Yazdani is a Ph.D candidate with the Deakin University Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation
Yazdani, N and Lozanovska, M (2013) ‘Sense of place in urban natural landscapes.’ Cultural ecology: new approaches to culture, architecture and ecology. School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University, 46-53
Yazdani, N and Lozanovska, M (2014) ‘Representation of multiculturalism in urban green spaces: a review of immigrants' experiences in Australia.’ In: Gjerde, M and Petrović, E (eds) UHPH 2014: Landscapes and Ecologies of Urban and Planning History.
Landscape architecture, Social and Cultural Geography, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Islam and Sufism in Iran, Migration and Diasporas Research, Persian Poetry
Zablotsky, Veronika
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ph.D. Candidate in Feminist Studies Transnational Diaspora, Developmentalism, West Asia, South Caucasus
Zananiri, Sary Sary Zananiri is an Australian-Palestinian artist and cultural historian based in Narrm
His research interests sit at the intersection of landscape,
Monash University
(Melbourne). He completed a PhD in Fine Arts at Monash University in 2014 looking at the ways in which biblical frameworks colour the imaging of the Palestinian landscape.
He exhibits and publishes widely and was the Artistic Director of the Palestinian Film Festival Australia in 2016. He also teaches in the Fine Art department at Monash University.
colonialism, indigeneity and religious narrative with a focus on photography and visual culture. More recently he has also been researching masculinity and transgression in contemporary Middle Eastern politics.
Zeiny, Esmaeil
The National University of Malaysia
Esmaeil Zeiny is Research Fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM), and Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Creative Arts and English, La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has received his PhD in Postcolonial Literature in English from UKM. His research interests lie at the intersection of literary studies, cultural studies, and political theory. His work addresses questions about identity, representation, colonialism, and postcolonialism.
Book
Fotouhi, S. & Zeiny, E. (eds) Seen and Unseen: Visual Cultures of Imperialism. 2017. Brill: Leiden.
Chapter in Book
Esmaeil Zeiny. “Intellectual Decolonization: Shariati in Dialogue with Alatas” in Byrd, D. J & Miri, S.J. (eds.) Shariati and the Future of Social Sciences: Religion, Revolution and the role of the Intellectual. Brill: Leiden. 2017.
Papers
Zeiny. 2017. “Diasporic Muslim Discourses: Re-visiting & Challenging the Stereotypes.” Islamic Perspective, London Academy of Iranian Studies.
Zeiny. 2017. “From Visual Culture to Visual Imperialism: The Oriental Harem and the New Scheherazades.” 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature.
Zeiny & Noraini Md. Yusof. 2015. “Educating the Silenced: Threads of Visual Culture in Domesticating the Wives.” International Education Studies, Vol 8, No 8.
Zeiny & Noraini Md. Yusof. 2015. "The Clash of images: 9/11 & Terrorism." Asian Social Science, Vol 11, No 16.
Zeiny. 2015. “The Said and the Not-Said: New Grammar of Visual Imperialism.” Gema Online Journal of Language Studies, Vol 15, No 3.
Postcolonial Literature, Visual Culture, Cultural Studies, Diaspora Studies and Iranian Studies. His current research interests involve studying the rhetoric of visual culture as well as meaning-making in visual texts and visual Orientalism/Imperialism.
