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

Protest and Politics in Turkey in the 1970s: Echoes of Dissent
by Selin Bengi Gümrükçü (March 2026)
https://www.routledge.com/Protest-and-Politics-in-Turkey-in-the-1970s-Echoes-of-Dissent/Gumrukcu/p/book/9781138242371

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Blue Humanities
by  Mohammed Muharram, ( Jan 2027)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbury-handbook-to-the-blue-humanities-9781350450707/ 
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
 Ahmed Kamal Junina: "In Gaza, the joy of Eid has gone. Visiting relatives at the end of Ramadan is a procession through loss" (March 25, 2026) 
 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/24/gaza-eid-ramadan-palestine
Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Online Pieces
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

Ahmad Qabaha 
(with Ekrema Shehab): " Translating Resistance: A Postcolonial Analysis of Cultural and Ideological Shifts in the Arabic Version of Mornings in Jenin.” Journal for Cultural Research ( March, 2025)
 doi:10.1080/14797585.2026.2643827.
 (with Ahmed Khouli) "Mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am’: Stuttering and writer's block in Mahmoud Darwish's works", Critical Survey 37, 2 (2025): 18-34, 2026) 
https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2025.370202

Arash Reisinezhad
“The Rise and Decline of Iran’s Forward Defense”, British Journal of the Middle East. (February 2025) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2026.2627252
“Corridor War in the Middle East”, The Middle East Policy. (May 2025)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mepo.12811?af=R
“Between Religious Principlism and Pragmatism: Islamic Iran’s Approach to Communist China”, Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs. (Aug. 2025)
https://irfajournal.csr.ir/article_219522.html
“The Shift from Neo-Ottomanism to the Century of Türkiye: Domestic, Regional, and Global Implications”, Digest of the Middle East. (Forthcoming)

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.

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
 Bahman Khodadadi: "Between Orthodoxy and Reform: Theorizing the Suspension of Islamic Corporal Punishments in Shiʿi Theocracy" (June 15, 2026)
 https://doi.org/10.1017/jlr.2026.10082
 Fateh Saeidi:  “The Language of ‘Conquest’ in Syria’s Renewed War against Kurdish Self-Rule.” Mediterranean Politics, May, 1–11. doi:10.1080/13629395.2026.2669863. ( 4 May 2026)
Fateh Saeidi: " The language of ‘conquest’ in Syria’s renewed war against Kurdish self-rule" (May 4, 2026) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13629395.2026.2669863
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 
 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.
Malaka Shwaikh: "“When Resilience Becomes a Burden: Reflections from Gazan Palestinian Scholars" (Jan7, 2026)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0377919X.2025.2599554
Mohammed Muharram: "Making the Invisible Visible: How the Blue Humanities Translate Climate Change to the Public" (September 17, 2025)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-humanities/article/making-the-invisible-visible-how-the-blue-humanities-translate-climate-change-to-the-public/551F83904141AED446D790849DE1CB56
 Mohammed Muharram: “Teaching the Blue Humanities: Sources, Strategies, Challenges, and Benefits.” (2024) In Towards ‘Bluer’ Humanities: Oceanic Meditations in Art, Literature and Culture (Preface by Steve Mentz). Authorspress, New Delhi.
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/
Nijmeh Ali: " "The Gaza School Birth: On Genocide, Silence, and the Birth of a New School " (March 31, 2026)
https://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-abstract/doi/10.1215/15525864-12242159/408883/The-Gaza-School-BirthOn-Genocide-Silence-and-the
Nijmeh Ali: "From Wadi Salib to Revolution: Palestinian Women and the Struggle for Liberation" (March 1, 2026)
https://scene48.org/en/articles/loud-clear/from-wadi-salib-to-revolution-palestinian-women-and-the-struggle-for-liberation
Nijmeh Ali: "Palestinian resistance: reflections on violence and the right to resist" ( May 21,2026)
 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17539153.2026.2675129#abstract
Wesam Amer: with others " Reflections on Scholasticide and Epistemicide Testimonies from Myanmar and Afghanistan to Palestine and Beyond" (June 30, 2026) 
https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iqas/article/view/28979
Zahra Khoshk Jan: "Religiosity against religiosity: Iranian women’s approach to reflexive religiosity – Dimensions, reasons, and consequences"(2025). https://doi.org/10.1177/00377686251372022
Media Engagements
Ahmed Kamal Junina
 Interview with CBS News (September 2, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrbpkK5zhIU 
 Interview with RTE Radio 1 (September 3, 2025)
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22541814/
"‘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/ 
"Performing Safety, Erasing Women: How Influencers Rewrite the Reality of Afghanistan" (May 3, 2026)
https://www.fairobserver.com/region/middle_east_north_africa/performing-safety-erasing-women-how-influencers-rewrite-the-reality-of-afghanistan/