Graduate Students
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.”
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.
Sayeed Al-Zaman
MA Student, Digital Humanities
Research topic: Religious misinformation on social media in Bangladesh
Houssem Ben Lazreg
PhD Candidate, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
benlazre@ualberta.ca
Ahmed El-Damanhoury
MA Student, History and Classics
Thesis Topic: The forgotten founders of Egyptian football: Sports, Culture and Society (1890-1956)
Rezvaneh Erfani
PhD Candidate, Sociology
Title of Research Project: A Post-Colonial Critique of the Global Environmental Justice Discourse
rezvaneh.erfani@gmail.com
Anas Fassih
PhD Student, Political Science
fassih@ualberta.ca
Hajar Ghorbani
PhD Candidate, Music
Topic of Dissertation: The Dissemination of Azerbaijani Pop Songs in Iranian Azerbaijan
hghorba1@ualberta.ca
Nazli Gul Deniz Claeys
PhD Student, Political Science
denizcla@ualberta.ca
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
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
Uthman Khan
PhD student, Sociocultural Anthropology
Reza Khodarahmi
PhD Student, Political Science
rkhodara@ualberta.ca
Emad Mousavi
Ph.D. Student, Philosophy
Md Nazmul Arefin
PhD Student, Sociology
Thesis topic: Islamophobia in Canada: Exploring the lived experiences of Muslim university students.
marefin1@ualberta.ca
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
Nakita Valerio
PhD Student, Religious Studies
