Publications

Individual Works by Fellows
Books
Industrial Islamism How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers
by Utku Baris Balaban (July 2025) 
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/industrial-islamism/paper 


"Exiled Scholars in Western Academia: Refugees or Intellectuals? Reflections on the Paradox of Inclusion and Exclusion" ia edited by Sayed Hassan Akhlaq and Alfred Babo. 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". 2025

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-83775-3

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Newspaper Articles
Ahmed Kamal Junina: ‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza (August 19, 2025)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/aug/19/too-hungry-to-think-too-weak-to-sit-upright-concentration-slips-away-the-struggle-to-stay-focussed-as-an-academic-in-gaza.
Ahmed Kamal Junina: "Recognising Palestine is important, but more is needed to save Gaza’s shattered generation" (September 21, 2025)
Ahmed Kamal Junina: “During a fierce storm I could hear the panicked screams of children in tents outside. This is Christmas in Gaza.” (December 30, 2025) 
 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/30/shelter-storm-winter-weather-children-tents-christmas-in-gaza
Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Online Pieces
Bahman Khodadadi: "Public Interest (Maslahat) in Shiʿi Theocracy: Implications for Legal and Political Decision-Making"  (June 13, 2025)
 https://resolve.cambridge.org/core/journals/iranian-studies/article/public-interest-maslahat-in-shii-theocracy-implications-for-legal-and-political-decisionmaking/76DE3653957C64F217D8053EE34F8CD9.
Nijmeh Ali: "Decolonial Peace, Theory of Resistance and Justice: Insights from the Palestinian-Israeli Context" ( Aug. 2025)  https://rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/08/18/decolonial-peace-resistance-theory/
Bahman Khodadadi: "The Theocratic Agency of the Iranian Legal System at the Legislative and Judicial Levels" in Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities (September 15, 2025)
 https://openyls.law.yale.edu/entities/publication/0c660f28-5209-441c-965a-cd9a09920664
 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.
Amira Badri: "Building skills and decent work opportunities for migrant women in Italy" (December 2, 2025) https://migrationpolicycentre.eu/building-skills-and-decent-work-opportunities-for-migrant-women-in-italy/
Zahra Khoshk Jan: "Religiosity against religiosity: Iranian women’s approach to reflexive religiosity – Dimensions, reasons, and consequences"(2025). https://doi.org/10.1177/00377686251372022
Fateh Saeidi:"Muslim Brotherhood legacies and local adaptations in Iran: the Iranian call and reform organization" (2025) 
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21567689.2025.2604580 
Fateh Saeidi: "Religious Rhetoric and Genocidal Violence: The Massacre of Kurds in Rojhelat Under Khomeini’s Fatwa" in The Palgrave Handbook of Kurdish Genocides (2025) 
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-87612-7_17 
Media Engagements
Ahmed Kamal Junina: Interview with CBS News (September 2, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrbpkK5zhIU

Ahmed Kamal Hunina: Interview with RTE Radio 1 (September 3, 2025)
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22541814/

Ahmed Kamal Junina: "‘Silence never truly arrives’: what the eve of a ceasefire feels like in Gaza" (October 10, 2025)
 https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/gaza-peace-deal-ceasefire-israel-palestine-war-hope-b2843042.html

Abdul Wahid Gulrani: 'Beyond Security Screening: What the National Guard Shooting Reveals About Afghan Resettlement' (December 3, 2025) 
https://thediplomat.com/2025/12/beyond-security-screening-what-the-national-guard-shooting-reveals-about-afghan-resettlement/