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Abdirashid Diriye Kalmoy

BA: Political Science and Public Administration, Hacettepe University
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: abdirashid.kalmoy@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Social Theory, Politics, Religion, Knowledge, Phenomenology, Border, War, Music, Kenya, Somalia.

Akbar Mohammadi Kahrizeh

BA: Law, Payam E Noor University (Iran)
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: akbar.mohammadi@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Ethics, Media, Nationalism, Mobility, Identity, Secularism, Iran.

Ayesha Syed

BA: Social Science, Kinnaird College for Women University (Pakistan)
MA:  Philosophy, University of the Punjab (Pakistan)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: ayesha.syed@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Politics, Gender, Modernity and Postmodernity, Media, Decolonialism, Critical Theory, Islam, Pakistan.

Betül Tozlu

BA: Sociology, Marmara University
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: betul.tozlu@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Emotion, Space and Place, Media, Digitalization and Virtual Spaces, Religion and Irreligion

Bilal Salaam

BAEnglish, Morgan State University (USA)
MA: Historiography, Rutgers University; Pedagogy, Rutgers University (USA)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad
Email: bilal.salaam@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research InterestSociology of Islam, Historical Anthropology, USA.

Ensar Kül

BA: Anthropology, Mardin Artuklu University
MA: Cultural Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: ensar.kul@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Linguistics, Modernism, Kurdish Studies, Postcolonialism, Nationalism and Identity, Comparative Literature.

Faozah Morad Uyan

BA: Journalism, Istanbul University
MA: General Journalism, Istanbul University
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: faozah.uyan@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Conflict and Trauma, Environmental Journalism, Media, Family, Philippines.

Hatice Sıla Öztürk

BA: Sociology, Istanbul Şehir University
MA: Sociology, Boğaziçi University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: sila.ozturk@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Gender, Sexuality, Anthropology of Emotion.

Havva Betül Koçali

BA: Psychology, Istanbul Şehir University
MA: Psychology, Doğuş University
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: betul.kocali@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Family, Marriage and Divorce, Emotion, Space, Gender, Social Psychology.

Hilal İslam

BA: Sociology, Üsküdar University
MA: Sociology, Hacettepe University
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: hilal.islam@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Methodology, Religion, Emotion, Gender, Sociology of Work.

Hüseyin Dağ

BA: Anthropology, Mardin Artuklu University
MA: Religious Studies, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: huseyin.dag@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Religion, Identity, Religious Conversion, Political Sociology.

Hüsna Zülfikar

BA: Sociology, Boğaziçi University
MA: Sociology, Istanbul Şehir University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: husna.zulfikar@ibnhaldun.edu.tr
Research Interest: Micro-Sociology, Culture, Phenomenology, Discourse Analysis, Everyday Life, Ethnography, Religious Ceremonies.

Imren Turner

BA: Turkish Language and Literature, Çukurova University
MA: Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Tesnim Khriji
Email Address: imren.turner@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Sociology of Medicine, Anthropology of Islam.

Mahmudul Hasan Naeem

BA: Journalism, Ege University
MA: Civilization Studies/Anthropology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Irfan Ahmad
Email Asdress: hasan.naeem@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Political Anthropology, Southeast Asia, Islam, State Violence, Communalism, Decolonization, Bangladesh.

Melahat Göktaş

BA: Anthropology, Mardin Artuklu University
MA: Cultural Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University
Supervisor: Prof. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: melahat.goktas@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Modernization, Postmodernism, Comparative Literature, Postcolonialism, Kurdish Studies, Gender, State, Nationalism.

Meyreme Oğuz Kantekin

BA: Sociology, Abant İzzet Baysal University
MA: Institute of Middle East and Islamic Countries, Marmara University
Supervisor: TBA
Email Address: meyreme.oguzkantekin@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Ahiska Turks, Identity, Migration, Sociology of the Body.

Merve Reyhan Ekinci

BA: Theology, Harran University
MA: Religious Studies, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: reyhan.ekinci@ibnhaldun.edu.tr
Research Interest: Migration, Ethnicity, Culture, Identity, Welfare State, Border, Qualitative Research, Politics, Social Psychology.

Mohammad Moosa Khan

BA: Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia (India)
MA: Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia (India) & Philosophy, Indira Gandhi National Open University (India)
Supervisor: TBA
Email Address: mohammadmoosa.khan@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Violence, Trauma, Ethnographic Vulnerability, Occupation, Resistance, Nationalism, Social Movements, Kashmir, India.

Muhammad Yusoph Ramos

BA: Medical Technology, Mindanao Sanitarium and Hospital College (Philippines)
MA: Civilization Studies, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: yusoph.ramos@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Medical Sociology, Pandemic, Illness, Security, Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, Philippines.

Mushtaq Ahmad Wani

BA: Mass Communication, Kashmir University (India)
MA: Politics and International Relations, Pondicherry University (India)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: mushtaqahmad.wani@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Islam, Emotion, Place and Space Ethnography, Passport Politics, Social Theory, Knowledge, Kashmir, India.

Nesibe Demir

BA: Faculty of Education, Necmettin Erbakan University
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: nesibedemir@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Islam, Politics, Emotion, Nationalism, Women, Youth, Place and Space Ethnography.

Neveen Fathi Aboueldahab

BA: International Business Administration, University of New Brunswick (Canada)
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: neveen.aboueldahab@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Muslim Identity, Westernization, Religion, Education, Decolonization, Egypt.

Obaidur Rahman Naufal

BA: History, Aligarh Muslim University (India)
MA:  Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University (India)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad
Email Adsress obaidur.naufal@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Islamic Movements, State, Modernity and Postmodernity, Power and Knowledge, Political Violence, India.

Osama Şeyhali

BA:  Sociology, Aligarh Muslim University (India)
MA: Modern Turkey Studies, Marmara University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: osama.seyhali@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Civil Society, Social Mobility, The Kurdish Issue in Syria.

Pınar Şen Zengin

BA: Anthropology & Kurdish Language and Literature, Mardin Artuklu University
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University & Gender Studies, University of Angers (France)
Supervisor: TBA
Email Address: pinar.sen@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Kurdish Studies, Postcolonialism, Women, Nationalism, Body, War, Myth.

Saiyid Ashraf Husain Jafri

BA: Sociology, Aligarh Muslim University (India)
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad
Email Address: saiyid.jafri@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Secularism, Oral History, Sufism, Otherization, Caste System, Religion, Contemporary India.

Sakib Abdullah Ibne Ataur

BA: Education, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh)
MA: Special Education, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) & Educational Administration, Gazi University
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: s.ibneataur@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Postcolonialism and Neocolonialism, Migration, Education, Epistemic Justice, Knowledge, Pedagogy, Islam, Global South, Bangladesh.

Saleh Ibrahim

BA: Political Science and International Relations, Yıldız Technical University
MA: Political Science and İnternational Relations, İstanbul University
Supervisor:Prof. Irfan Ahmad
Email Address: saleh.ibrahim@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Politics, Middle East and North Africa Studies, Social Movements, Military Policy, Islam, International Relations, Egypt.

Sevde Öztürk

BA: Theology, Istanbul University
MA: Religious Studies, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Alev Erkilet
Email Address:sevde.ozturk@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Cultural Sociology, East Asia, Korea, Religion, Media.

Tasneem Sultan Hamid Ali

BA: English Language and Literature, Taiz University (Yemen)
MA: Radio, TV and Cinema, Istanbul University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Arzu Ünal
Email Address: tasneem.ali@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Language, Literature, Media, Sociolinguistics, Yemen.

Thuraya Abdulateef Abdulrahman Al-naseri

BA: Sociology, Altınbaş University
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Assist.Prof. Tesnim Khriji
Email Address: thuraya.alnaseri@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Law, Social Movements, Institutional Sociology, Iraq.

Yunus Kılıç

BA: History, Boğaziçi University
MA: History, Kırklareli University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: yunus.kilic@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Cultural Sociology, Knowledge, Conspiracy Theories.

Zulkarnain Mohammed

BA: Political Science, University of Ghana
MA: Political Science and International Relations, Ibn Haldun University 
Supervisor:Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: zulkarnain.mohammed@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Conflict Theory, Social Theory, Urban, Politics, Gender, Ghana.