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Visiting researcher Dr. Dalal Bajes participated in a series of academic activities on Palestinian prisoners, carcerality, colonial violence and so on in the USA universities.

Our Sociology PhD candidate Ayesha Syed presented a paper titled “‘Hate’ in the Name of ‘Love’: Safeguarding the Honour of the Prophet (PBUH) and Violent Extremism in Pakistan” at the University of Cambridge.

The article aldığı “What Drives Boycotts? Exploring Motivational Frames in Digital Activism” co-authored by Research Assistant Yunus Yeşil has been published in Politics and Governance (Q1) Journal.

Asst. Prof. Tesnim Khriji and Visiting Researcher Dr. Intissar Kherigi from our Sociology Department participated in the British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Meeting 2026.

Our Sociology PhD candidate Nesibe Demir defended her doctoral dissertation and earned her PhD degree.

“War on Iran and Beyond: Perspectives from Sociology and Political Science” discussed at the Round Table Talks.

The article titled “Between ‘Joseph’s School’ and ‘Jonah’s Whale’: Palestinian Women’s Coping Strategies and the Temporal Politics of Incarceration”, authored by Dr. Dalal Bajes, a visiting researcher in our university’s Department of Sociology, has been published in the SAGE-affiliated journal Incarceration.

Prof. Siraj Ahmad from the City University of New York gave a lecture at our university titled “Colonialism, Wars, and Freedom of Speech in Western Academia”.

Prof. Irfan Ahmad from the Department of Sociology was a guest on the podcast series “Neutrality Studies”.

The master’s thesis of our graduate Rahime Seyit, titled “Archeology of De-Democratization: Mobilizing the Pharaonic Past in Post-2013 Counterrevolutionary Egypt”, has been published as a book under the same title.

Our Postdoc Researcher Havva Yılmaz’s Article “Islamism and Cinema: An Examination from the Perspective of the Sociology of Emotions” has been published in the Tezkire journal.

The review article written by our Sociology doctorate student Obaidur Rahman Naufal has been published in the American Journal of Islam and Society, which is considered an authority in its field.

Our sociology PhD candidate Sevde Öztürk, in collaboration with Naoki Yamamoto, has translated the scholar Liu Zhi’s work titled “The Wisdom of the Five Pillars of Islam”.

Research Assistant Yunus Yeşil from Sociology Department presented the co-authored study on digital activism and boycott at the ISA’s 67th Annual Convention.

The book titled “Specialized Meeting on Secularization (Worldliness)”, featuring a chapter by Prof. Alev Erkilet titled “Some Observations on the Concepts of Secularism and Secularization” has been released.

The article titled “Epistemological Contestations in Global Governance: The OIC and the Conceptualization of Minorities” by our Sociology MA graduate Hibatuallah Bensaid is published in the Politics and Religion journal.

Within the scope of the Sociology Talks, the topic of “Said Nursi and Modern Muslim Subjectivity” was discussed from a sociological perspective.

The Department of Sociology’s traditional iftar program once again highlighted unity and togetherness this year.

The book “Being Muslim in the Digital World” in which our Sociology Department Research Assistant Yunus Yeşil authored a chapter is published.

Assist. Prof. Arzu Ünal’s article titled “Karyağdı Hatun: Locating Islam in the National Opera of ‘Modern’ Türkiye” has been published in the international Q1 journal Contemporary Islam.

The academic study titled “Climate Change Induced Political Conflict and Violence in Greater Somalia” by our Sociology Department PhD graduate, Dr. Abdirashid Diriye Kalmoy, has been published in the OPUS Journal of Society Research.

Merve Reyhan Ekinci, a PhD candidate in our University’s Department of Sociology, has been awarded support under the TÜBİTAK 2214-A International Research Fellowship Program for PhD Students.

The article titled “The Problem of Women in İsmet Özel's Thought” co-authored by Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet, faculty member of the Sociology Department at Ibn Haldun University, and our Sociology graduate student Hüsamettin Öztürk, has been published in Tezkire journal.

Prof. Alev Erkilet has published a new article titled “Tevhidden Yararcılığa, Muvakkithanelerden Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü’ne Kentlerin ve Zihinlerin Dönüşümü” in the journal Düşünen Şehir.