Latest Research
Beyond the Academy
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Beyond the Academy –
Audio & podcasts
Including 'Legacies of the War on Terror' and a Material Crimes episode on Guantánamo's infrastructure, alongside the Identities podcast.
Listen to the Legacies of the War on Terror→
Collaborations
'The Securitisation of Muslims in Britain', produced with Maslaha, brings research to academic and non-academic audiences alike.
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My most recent work traces how artificial intelligence reproduces and extends Islamophobic logics of suspicion, tracking how risk and threat become newly spatialised through automated systems.
Political Geography, 2026
Automating Islamophobia (MUP, forthcoming)
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A sustained body of work on how the Prevent Duty circulates through school and university spaces, and how counter-extremism policy transforms the Muslim home and classroom into sites of pre-emptive suspicion.
Identities, 2024
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Work on the politics of researching race and security from within the university, including the role of friendship and solidarity networks in sustaining radical scholarship under institutional pressure.
Area, 2025
I Refuse to Condemn, 2018
Education as Liberation: Embodying and Embracing Inclusivity in the Interdisciplinary Classroom, 2025
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Broader work on the spatial politics of the War on Terror, from Guantánamo Bay's carceral infrastructure to the geopolitics of protests
Oxford Bibliographies, 2023
Security and the War on Terror: Predict, Prevent, Police, 2026
To read more of my research, take a look at my Google Scholars page. If you can’t access a chapter or article I wrote, get in touch.
Public scholarship
Regular contributions to Middle East Eye, Discover Society and the Runnymede Trust, translating research for wider audiences.