Abdulla Moaswes
Postgraduate Researcher
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Abdulla is an interdisciplinary social scientist and qualitative methodologist. His research interests revolve around global and transnational colonial and anticolonial connectivities in the Majority World. In his doctoral work, he draws upon the connected fields of political economy and communication studies to outline and examine the interconnections between Israeli and Indian colonial rule in Palestine and Kashmir respectively, as well as the role of these interconnections within planetary political and economic circulations. This doctoral project is co-supervised by Professor Ilan Pappé and Professor Adam Hanieh.
Abdulla's other interests include the politics of food and culture, the geopolitics of competing anticolonialisms, and modern Arabic and Urdu poetry. In addition to his academic work, Abdulla also writes speculative fiction.