Author profile: Ali Kassem

Dr. Ali Kassem (he/him) is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He obtained his PhD from the University of Sussex, UK and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. In 2020-2021, he was an early career fellow with the Arab Council for Social Sciences funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Political Foreclosure of Queer Liberation: Notes from Lebanon

Ali Kassem • Mar 11 2024 • Articles

Through its constructed reductionist violent identitarian Othering of queerness, fikh and wider Islamic knowledge become rigidly ossified.

Reflections on Decoloniality, Time, History and Remembering

Ali Kassem • Jan 17 2023 • Articles

Racialised communities across metropoles such as Beirut, Singapore and Edinburgh have contested questions of the past, of history, and of memory.

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