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Miguel Galsim

Miguel Galsim is an alumnus of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University with an Honours degree in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies. His research interests centre the role of Islam within political discourse and foreign policy histories in the broader Islamic world, such as a published chapter on Hamas' self-presentations in "The Islamic Nationalism of Hamas: Syncretism, Discourse, and Legitimacy" in Tristan Dunning's Palestine: Past and Present (2019).

Posts From This Author

Militarism, Armed Opposition, and Self-distinction: Cases from across the Ummah

By Miguel Galsim // November 30, 2021November 30, 2021

In late May 2021, with Gaza reeling in the wake of an extensive bombing campaign conducted by the Israeli military, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyah in Arabic, or “Hamas”) held a festival in…

“#We_are_all_responsible”: Bio-power and the Early Saudi Religious Response to Pandemic

By Miguel Galsim // July 29, 2020

“#We_are_all_responsible”: Bio-power and the Early Saudi Religious Response to Pandemic With a crisis like COVID-19 comes trepid opportunity, and in Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s two holiest shrines, the once-defanged “religious police” have returned with…