New publications by fellows and alumni in Summer-Fall 2025
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/industrial-islamism/paper
New book by our alumnus Utku Barış Balaban: "Industrial Islamism
How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers". Available now to read online or purchase as hard copy!
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-83775-3
New publication by our fellow Sayed Hassan Akhlaq! His edited volume "Exiled Scholars in Western Academia: Refugees or Intellectuals? Reflections on the Paradox of Inclusion and Exclusion" is out now! Other Global Academy scholars contributed to this book. Naima Mohammadi wrote "Gender, Religion, and Nationality: The Sense of Misrecognition of an Exiled Scholar in Western Academia" and Mohammed Muharram wrote "An Exiled Yemeni Scholar in Western Academia: Perils and Promises".
Bahman Khodadadi: "Public Interest (Maslahat) in Shiʿi Theocracy: Implications for Legal and Political Decision-Making" (June 13, 2025)
Nadia Al-Sakkaf: “Crafting a Post-Conflict Constitution for Yemen: Navigating Rule of Law and Emerging Forces.” Published in Review of Middle East Studies 58, no. 1–2 (2024): 3–8.
https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2024.38.
https://rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ali-Decolonial-Violence.pdf
Nijmeh Ali: "Decolonial Peace, Theory of Resistance and Justice: Insights from the Palestinian-Israeli Context" Aug. 2025 published in the BMBF Network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict (Germany).
Fateh Saeidi: "Religion Meets Gender: The Impact of Sunni Islamic Discourse on the Jina Uprising in Eastern Kurdistan".
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-middle-east-studies/article/open-constitution-the-dilemma-of-constitutional-stability-and-adaptability-irans-1906-and-1979-constitutions-a-case-study/AC4C417CB72A9796A178D21311F7D52D
Seyed Masoud Noori: "Open Constitution: The Dilemma of Constitutional Stability and Adaptability Iran’s 1906 and 1979 Constitutions: A Case Study".
Nijmeh Ali: “Archives Under Fire: Resisting Erasure Amid Genocide”.
https://openyls.law.yale.edu/entities/publication/0c660f28-5209-441c-965a-cd9a09920664
Bahman Khodadadi: "The Theocratic Agency of the Iranian Legal System at the Legislative and Judicial Levels" in Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities
Lutforahman Saeed: "Freedom of Communal Prayer in the Primary Sources of Islamic Law and under the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan" in the Canopy Forum on Interactions of Law & Religion.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/education-gaza-children-israel-bombing-ceasefire-b2830378.html
Ahmed Junina: "Recognising Palestine is important, but more is needed to save Gaza’s shattered generation".
Dr. Nijmeh Ali and Dr. Lutforahman Saeed, gave talks at the UN in September 2025.
Dr. Ali's talk was a part of the panel "Ending the Gaza Genocide" and took place on September 30 in Geneva. Dr. Saeed's talk, part of the session "Weaponization of Religion by the Taliban and Its Consequences on Afghanistan and Beyond," took place on September 26 in New York and is available here: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1w/k1wc51d4f7.
Ahmed Kamal Junina: "‘Silence never truly arrives’: what the eve of a ceasefire feels like in Gaza" (October 10, 2025)
