Authors

Ali Kassem

Ali Kassem is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Beirut Urban Lab at the American University of Beirut through the support and funding of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Ali is also a school tutor at the School of Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK where he obtained his PhD in 2020. Currently, Ali serves as steering committee member at the Sussex Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and management committee member at the Middle East North Africa Centre at Sussex. He has previously held research and/or teaching positions at the Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich, the Ecole Des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, the Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies, the Lebanese American University, AUB, and others.

His main interests are in Post-, anti-, and decolonial work, ethnic and racial studies, inequalities, Islam and Knowledge making on which Ali has published multiple peer-reviewed and non-academic articles and essays. His current research focuses on the lived experiences of discrimination and exclusion of visibly Muslim Lebanese citizens with a particular focus on the role of urbanity – as an institution of modernity/coloniality.

ARTICLES BY Ali Kassem