A piece that I wrote recently reflecting on Tehran's urbicide by the US-Israel bombs. In it, I read the bombed streets of Tehran through their revolutionary histories and ask what is erased when such archives of defiance are bombed... kohljournal.press/tehran-archi...

On Urbicide and Bombs that Fail: Reading Tehran as an Archive of Defiance

Over the past week,This piece was written in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak of the 40-day war on Iran, launched by the United States and Israel on 28 February 2026. As such, the emotions it c...

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Missed our event on Sovereignty in #Iran: Challenges to Eurocentrism from Ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic with @shabnamholliday.bsky.social, @edwardwastnidge.bsky.social & @drasmaabdi.bsky.social? 🎧 Listen back to the recording here: soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeas...

Highly recommended on Labour’s macroprudential dilemma, from Nick Kotucha

Back to the Future: Labour and the Politics of Financial Deregulation

One of the professed aims of the current Labour government in the UK is to boost GDP by ‘cutting red tape’. This also applies to the financial sector, where in recent months regulators have been aske...

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So honoured and overjoyed to receive the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD thesis on the Middle East for my PhD thesis, "Towards a Feminist International Political Economy of Sanctions: Social Reproduction, Labour and Survival in Iran" at the @brismes.bsky.social BRISMES conference!

I won a prize this week in the PSA conference 😍 Feeling so honoured to be awarded the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Political science Association (PSA) Elizabeth Wiskemann Prize for the best PhD dissertation in the field of (in)equality and social justice!! @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

🌟New Publication! Raksha Gopal and I examine how Rohingya and Syrian refugees negotiate survival amid multiple forms of violence in India and Turkey. We introduce a new concept—the (in)securitization of social reproductive capacities—drawing on our PhDs @gvagrad.bsky.social. 📖Displaced Lives⤵️

Displaced lives: rethinking survival, social reproduction, and (in)security with refugees

In this article, we examine the practices of survival that Rohingya and Syrian refugees perform as they confront multiple forms of violence resulting from their forced displacement in India and Tur...

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Pleased to share my paper, “A Feminist International Political Economy of Sanctions: Crises and the Shifting Gendered Regimes of Labour and Survival in Iran", published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics. The paper is open access and available here 👇

In the last 24 hours, four babies have died from the freezing cold in Gaza. This harsh period, known locally as "Arabiniya," brings 40 days of relentless cold. As you sit in warmth, take a moment to think of others enduring unimaginable suffering and remember: Israel is a genocidal state.

If you are working in UK HE, consider donating to Brismes - the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, fundraiser to support Gazan universities & students: gofundme.com/f/the-brisme...

Donate to The BRISMES Fund for Higher Education in Gaza, organized by British Society for Middle Eastern Studies

Founded in 1973, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studi… British Society for Middle Eastern Studies needs your support for The BRISMES Fund for Higher Education in Gaza

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🎉 We're in the final stretch of celebrating 50 volumes! 🎉 Check out the 2019 most-cited article: "Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence" by Juanita Elias & Shirin M. Rai. 📄👉 buff.ly/3ZzQ2sV

feminist/queer political economy starter pack is here - let me know who else I need to add

Ethnic cleansing in Northern Gaza.

My first single-authored paper is out in @Peasant_Journal w/ #OpenAccess. It explores how land shapes women's agency across intersecting identities after the genocide in #Rwanda, and theorises the nexus between land dispossession and gendered violence👇https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167

Land dispossession as continuum of violence: women’s political agency in post-genocide Rwanda

The article investigates how gender and class shape women’s political empowerment in post-genocide Rwanda, where access to land creates gendered networks for women to exercise their political agenc...

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