Personalities who expressed to
help and be part of the cohort so far:
ABDELKADER, Deina is currently an assistant professor in the
department of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Abdelkader
is a Comparitivist and International Relations specialist. Her scholarly
interests and research, focus on the Middle East and North Africa, Comparative
Democratization in the Muslim World, Islamic Activism, and the Role of Muslim
Women in Religious Interpretation. She is the author of Social Justice in
Islam (2000) and Islamic Activists: The Anti-Enlightenment Democrats
(Pluto Press, 2011). She has also authored a number of articles; her latest is:
Coercion, Peace and the Issue of Jihad in the Digest of Middle East
Studies, and a forthcoming book chapter titled: "Modernity, Islam and
Religious Activism", The New Global Order and the Middle East, Ashgate
Publishers, (forthcoming Fall, 2012). Abdelkader is also one of two women on
the Islamic Jurisprudential Council of North America (Fiqh Council of North
America) and she is also part of the editorial board of the Digest of Middle
East Studies, and the new President of Voile: “Voices of Islamic Law and
Ethics”. <deina_abdelkader@uml.edu>
ACOSTA, Eduardo Erazo is a sociologist at the Research on Religion and Migration at the University
of Nariño in Pasto, Colombia. <rueduardo2000@hotmail.com>
ADIONG, Nassef Manabilang is the founder of the IR-IS Research Cohort. <info@nassef-m-adiong.com>
ARAJ, Victoria Dimitri is currently a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and
Social Sciences at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey and a PhD candidate
in the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK. Her research interests include Turkish
Foreign Policy, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, relations between Turkey and
Israel, state building and peace building. <victoriaaraj@sabanciuniv.edu>
ARNAKIM, Lili
Yulyadi Bin is a visiting scholar at the Centre
for Policy Research and International Studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia.
<yulyadi@yahoo.com>
DALAY, Galip is a PhD student in
International Relations at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara,
Turkey. He is also a research assistant under the political research wing of
SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research in Ankara. He has
co-authored with Hatem Ete and Mustafa Altunoglu the “Dominant Party
Politics and Justice and Development Party” (SETA Foundation, 2013). <galip.dalay@gmail.com>
DUDERIJA, Adis is a senior lecturer in gender studies at the University of Malaya. He
is the sole author of “Constructing Religiously Ideal Believer and Muslim Woman
Concepts: Neo-Traditional Salafi and Progressive Muslim Methods of
Interpretation (Manahij),” (Palgrave, 2011) and a forthcoming edited book
entitled “Maqasid Al Shari ah and Contemporary Muslim Reformist Thought”
(Palgrave, 2014). His research interests in Islamic Studies are gender and Islam,
contemporary reformist Muslim thought, and Islamic hermeneutics. <adisduderija@gmail.com>
ERSOY, Eyüp is a PhD candidate in International Relations at
Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. He is an assistant editor of Review of
International Law and Politics published USAK International Strategic Research
Organization. His article on “Bringing Religion Back In: Debating Religion in
International Politic” was published in All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign
Policy and Peace in 2012. He has written a book entitled “Turkish-Chinese
Military Relations: Spinning More, Moving Less” (Ankara: USAK Publications,
2008). <eyupersoy@hotmail.com>
HAQUE, Mohammad Mohibul is an assistant professor of the department of political science at Aligarh Muslim University in India. In 2011, he authored a book entitled “International Terrorism and Violence: A Human Rights Perspective” published by Manak Publications (New Delhi) in collaboration with Aligarh Muslim University Press (Aligarh). He also contributed several articles and research papers in national and international journals, magazines, and newspapers. He has been a panelist for discussions on TV and other public fora. He is the recipient of the President of India Dr. Shankardayal Sharma Gold Medal. His areas of interest are Political Theory, International Politics, Poltical Islam, Indian Polity, Terrorism and Human Rights. His email address is <mohibulhaque@gmail.com>.
KIDWAI, A.R.M. Saleem is a professor in School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru
University in New Delhi, India. He was a twice recipient of Fulbright
Fellowship. He has authored four books and several journal articles. He is the
director of the International Centre for Peace Studies in New Delhi and the president
of the Centre for the Study of Muslim World and Democracy. He travelled extensively
and visited Pakistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, China, Thailand, Austria, the UK,
France, and the USA. <kidwaisaleemjnu@gmail.com>
KUMAR, Rajeesh is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for
International Politics, Organization and Disarmament in the School of
International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. He
co-edited with Navaz Nizar the “Islam, Islamist Movements and Democracy in
Middle East: Challenges, Opportunities and Responses” (New Delhi: Global
Vision Publishing House, 2012), and co-edited with Daniel Daianu, Giorgio
Basevi and Carlo D’Adda the “Eurozone Crisis and the Future of Europe: Political Economy of Further Integration and
Governance” (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming in 2013).
<rajeeshkumaar@gmail.com>
MAURIELLO, Raffaele is an Italian historian of the modern Middle East. He holds a PhD in Islamic Civilization: History and Philology from the Sapienza, University of Rome (Italy). He has published several peer-reviewed essays and chapters in edited volumes on Shi‘a Islam history and on Iranian and Iraqi geopolitical affairs. He is also a translator of both Arabic and Persian languages. In 2013, he was awarded the World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the field of Islamic Studies for his monograph Descendants of the Family of the Prophet in Contemporary History: A Case Study, the Šī‘ī Religious Establishment of al-Naǧaf (Iraq) published on December 2011 by Fabrizio Serra. He can be contacted through his email address, i.e. <raffaele.mauriello@me.com>.
PARRAY, Tauseef Ahmad is a doctoral candidate at Aligarh Muslim University in India. His
research interests involve Islam and democracy, modern Islamic political
thought, and Qur’anic studies. His latest article is ‘Democracy in Islam:
Views of Several Modern Muslim Scholars’ published in American Journal of
Islamic Social Sciences. <tauseef.parray21@gmail.com>
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