Dr. Shaida Nabi is an independent academic researcher. She obtained her doctorate in Political Sociology on Institutionalised Islamophobia and Muslim Student Activism from the University of Manchester.
Her special interests include institutionalised Islamophobia, the lifecycle of ‘Prevent’ in British universities, decolonial Politics and settler-colonial logics in the academy. She has written for various media and is presently writing on settler colonial erasure between the British ‘metropole’ and Israe’ls colonies. She can be found at Shaida R Nabi - Academia.edu
Academic Publications
Shaida Nabi, “Federation of Student Islamic Societies, (FOSIS) UK,” in Frank Peter and Rafeal Ortega, eds., Islamic Movements in Europe (London: IB Tauris, 2014).
Nabi, S. (2021). Institutionalised Islamophobia Before Prevent: Muslim Students, Campus Watch and the ‘Fundamentalist’ Formation in British Universities. Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam, 2(2), 112-141.
Shaida R Nabi (2022): The Suspect, Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State, Critical Studies on Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2022.2099059
Non-Academic Publications
Revisiting ‘Race’: Towards a Decolonial Curriculum, Ceasefire Magazine, (30th October 2020). https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/decolonise-curriculum/
When an Elected Student Leader is No- platformed: Patterns of Racialised Surveillance (30th March, 2023) https://platformonline.uk/posts/shaima-dallali-nus-when-an-elected-student-leader-is-no-platformed-patterns-of-racialised-surveillance
Safeguarding Zionist Fragility on British campuses
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/safeguarding-zionist-fragility-on-british-campuses/
What’s Israel got to do with us? The UJS and Israel's Settler-colonial Project
This influential pro-Israel group is legitimizing the Gaza genocide on British campuses – Mondoweiss
