Talks, Presentations, and Media Appearances

I regularly present my research in a variety of public settings from academic gatherings to community and museum events. Below is a list of upcoming or recent talks and events. For more information you can download my CV or please be in touch via the contact page on this website.

Upcoming

April, 2024: “Ignorance, jāhiliya and contrasting conceptions in Qutbian Thought.” International Studies Association (ISA) – South Conference, San Francisco, California.

Conference and Academic Presentations

November 2-5, 2023: “On the Modalities of Ignorance: Muhammad and Sayyid Qutb on Contrasting Conceptions of jāhiliya in Qutbian Thought.” Middle East and Studies Association (MESA) Conference, Montréal, Canada.

September 22-24, 2022: “Myth Making from the Afghan jihad – Abdullah Azzam and Esoteric literature in jihādi Culture.” Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies (NSMES) Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

October 7-9, 2022: “The Globalization of Radicalization: jihād, Canadian Foreign Fighters, and Getting Lost Online.” International Studies Association (ISA) – South Conference, Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida.

March 2022: “Fairy Tales from the Afghani Jihad – Martyrdom, Miracles, and Mythology in Jihadi Culture.” Middle East and Islamic Consortium of British Columbia (MEICON) Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

June, 2019: “Beyond my Brothers Shadow: Sayyid and Muhammad Qutb on the Intellectual Origins of Islamic Revivalism in Contemporary Saudi Arabia,” Ibadi Islam: A Critical Examination of Sources - Summer School, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

 

March 2019: “Arming the Nation of Islam: Gaddafi, Farrakhan and the Twilight of Third-Worldism,” Middle East and Islamic Consortium of British Columbia (MEICON) Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

 

April 2017: “Seeing, Being Seen: Muhammad Qutb and Abul A'la Maududi on the Politics of Gender, Agency and a Correctly Genderized Islamic World”. Middle East and Islamic Consortium of British Columbia (MEICON) Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

 

February 2016: “Islamist Modernities of Futures-Past.” History and Classics Graduate Students’ Association Annual Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. 

 

January 2016: “Contrasting Islamist Modernities: Sayyid Qutb and Ali Shari’ati on Remembering the Future.” Qualicum Graduate History Conference, Parksville, BC. January 30 to February 1, 2016.