Dr Sanaa Alimia Lecture, 8 February 2024
Dr Sanaa Alimia (Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
Dr Sanaa Alimia (Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, The Aga Khan University) will speak on:
“Refugee Cities: Afghans in Pakistan”
When: Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 3 PM
Where: Via Zoom (Meeting ID: 956 0434 9137 Passcode: 832193)
This CIRD Lecture is part of Dublin City University’s Theology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Research Seminars.
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Biography
Dr Sanaa Alimia is Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, Aga Khan University. Dr Alimia is a political scientist with a focus on migration, surveillance, and urbanity. She holds a PhD from SOAS, London and an MSc from the LSE. Prior to joining the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), Dr Alimia was a Research Fellow at the Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin (2016-2019) and a recipient of the COFUND Dahlem Research Award, at the Freie Universität and Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin (2014-2016). She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Peshawar (2013-2016) and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS (2011-2014).
Dr Alimia is the author of Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan, published in 2022 by University of Pennsylvania Press.
Her current research focuses on surveillance, governance, and migration.