Graduate Students
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Abubakar Abdulkadir
Ph.D. Student, History and Classics
Research project: The ‘Emergence’ of the Verse Tradition in Mauritania: Intellectual History and the Culture of Islamic Scholarship in the “Land of Million Poets.”
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Emad Afkhsan
PhD Candidate; History, Classics & Religion
Thesis topic: His project examines peasant unrest and power relationships in Safavid Persia, known as the Siyāh pūshān.
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Sayeed Al-Zaman
MA Student, Digital Humanities
Research topic: Religious misinformation on social media in Bangladesh
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Houssem Ben Lazreg
PhD Candidate, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
benlazre@ualberta.ca
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Ahmed El-Damanhoury
MA Student, History and Classics
Thesis Topic: The forgotten founders of Egyptian football: Sports, Culture and Society (1890-1956)
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Rezvaneh Erfani
PhD Candidate, Sociology
Title of Research Project: A Post-Colonial Critique of the Global Environmental Justice Discourse
rezvaneh.erfani@gmail.com
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Anas Fassih
PhD Student, Political Science
fassih@ualberta.ca
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Hajar Ghorbani
PhD Candidate, Music
Topic of Dissertation: The Dissemination of Azerbaijani Pop Songs in Iranian Azerbaijan
hghorba1@ualberta.ca
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Nazli Gul Deniz Claeys
PhD Student, Political Science
denizcla@ualberta.ca
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Hande Gür
PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Thesis topic: The rise of Sufi mystical practices among young, middle-class women of Turkish origin living both in Turkey and the West.
gur@ualberta.ca
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Reyhaneh Javadi
PhD Student, Sociology and Social Anthropology
Topic of Dissertation: Encroachments in Juridicial Field: Iranian’s struggle for Rights as a Social Non-Movement.
javadi1@ualberta.ca
Ehsan Kashfi
PhD Candidate, Political Science
kashfi@ulaberta.ca
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Uthman Khan
PhD student, Sociocultural Anthropology
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Reza Khodarahmi
PhD Student, Political Science
rkhodara@ualberta.ca
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Emad Mousavi
Ph.D. Student, Philosophy
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Md Nazmul Arefin
PhD Student, Sociology
Thesis topic: Islamophobia in Canada: Exploring the lived experiences of Muslim university students.
marefin1@ualberta.ca
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Behrang Nikaeen
PhD Candidate, Music
Title of Dissertation: The impact of Iran’s post-revolutionary cultural policies on Persian classical music composition
nikaeen@ualberta.ca
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Saman Rezaei
PhD student, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Thesis topic: His thesis examines the idea of a leading Muslim mystic, Suhrawardi, and his theory of intuitive ontology through narrative structures and symbols, and the influence of this ontology on the transformation of the substance of symbols.
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Mehdi Rezania
PhD Candidate, Music
Title of Dissertation: The impact of Iran’s post-revolutionary cultural policies on Persian classical music composition
rezania@ualberta.ca
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Arshad Said Khan
PhD Student, English and Film Studies
Thesis Topic: Hijra Nation: Representing the Subaltern in Postcolonial Narratives, Films and Life Writing
ask1@ualberta.ca
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Mailk Samara
Ph.D. student, Political Science
Thesis Topic: Malik critically examines the presumed ideological, religious, and political threads linking the Palestinian group of Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah.
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Sajad Soleymani Yazdi
PhD Candidate, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Title of Dissertation: Of Sand and Snow: The Eco-Witnesses of Canadian Settler Muslims and The Cree
ssoleyma@ualberta.ca
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Laya Soleymanzadeh
MA student, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Thesis topic: Her doctoral project, titled “Narrative and Metanarrative Hospitality in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis,” challenges reductionist Orientalist and/or Occidentalist narratives.
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Samira Torabi
PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Title of Dissertation: Women Creating New Spaces: Reconfiguring Gender Segregation in Iran
torabi@ualberta.ca
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Nakita Valerio
PhD Student, Religious Studies
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