Since 08/2021: Associate at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies
2020 - 2021: Assistant Dean, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Habib University, Karachi
2017 - 2021: Assistant Professor, Social Development and Policy Program, Habib University, Karachi
2014 - 2017: Instructor, Center for International Exchange and Education, Amman
Education: PhD in Political Science, Syracuse University; M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS, University of London; M.A. in African and Asian Studies, University of Pavia; B.A. in Social Sciences for Cooperation and Development, University of Pavia
How has global jihadi militancy affected the security landscape of West African states? This paper examines this question by considering the cases of Algeria and Mali as they became theaters of Al-Qā’idah in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) jihadi project. This interaction is examined through the perspective of glocalization.
Salafist movements, like any phenomenon of social activism, follow heterogeneous, mutually influencing trajectories: from quietist Salafism to jihadist terrorism; from associationism in defense of human rights to institutional party forms; from Sufi-inspired movements to forms of Islamic populism.
The radicalization of Salafi-Jihadi militants is a process primarily attributed to structural factors such as economic dispossession, political repression, and cultural alienation which breed individual grievances.
ECPR General Conference 2021, Online Event
Organisers: European Consortium for Political Research
Dr. Sinan Chu (Chair, Discussant), Dr. Massimo Ramaioli (Chair, Discussant)
Panel #173 "Global Formations of Knowledge: Intellectuals and Political Praxis Beyond the West"
