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Areas of research:
Religious politics, Islamist transnationalism, contested governance, political thought
Regional focus:
Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Professional experience:
since 2023
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Gerda Henkel Foundation Grant) at the Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh
2022-2023
Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI), Post-Doctoral Fellow
Since 2022
Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), Fellow
Since 2022
Centre Jacques-Berque, Post-Doctoral Associate Fellow
2021-2022
King’s College London, Department of Political Economy, Lecturer
2021-2022
SOAS, University of London, Department of Politics and International Studies, Teaching Fellow
Education:
2016-2021
PhD, Prof. Matt Nelson and Prof. Charles Tripp, Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK
2014-2015
MA Near and & Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK (full scholarship)
2013-2014
MA Legal and Political Theory, University College London, UK
2008-2011
BA Philosophy, Bristol University, UK
Selected Publications and Working Papers
‘The Moroccan ‘Salafism since the Arab Spring', in Salafi Social and Political Movements: National and Transnational Contexts’, edited by Prof. Masooda Bano at Oxford University (Edinburgh University Press, September 2021)
‘‘Quietist’ Salafism and politics in Morocco and Libya’, co-written with Inga Trauthig (KCL), Sharq Forum (2021)
‘Of friends and foes: Schmitt, shibboleths, and Islamic (anti-)politics in Morocco’, working paper.
‘Salafi-Islamist contestation and the state in the MENA’, working paper.
