Dr. Fahad Ahmad discusses his dissertation, “Comparison of Muslim Civil Society Responses to Counter-radicalization Policies in Canada & U.K” with PhD candidate, Khalidah Ali, at the Institute of Islamic Studies.
Comparing the cases of Canada and the U.K., this research shows how, in response to CR policy pressures, Muslim civil social organizations (CSOs) develop strategies that can be construed as power contestations with state institutions. This has significance for understanding how, despite institutional constraints, CSOs can use their agentic power to engage in meaningful contestations toward emancipatory goals.
Fahad Ahmad
Fahad Ahmad is an interdisciplinary scholar and recent PhD graduate from Carleton Unviersity’s School of Public Policy and Administration. Dr. Ahmad is interested in critical terrorism/radicalization studies; racialized practices of national security, policing, and surveillance; civil society and resistance; racial justice and inequality; and the political economy of philanthropy.
Khalidah Ali
Khalidah is a PhD student in Islamic Studies. Her main interests are modern Islam in Egypt, Islamic Reformism, Islamism, and gender.
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The Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS) is excited to share two new reports that came out of the Advisory Committee on Charitable Sectors (ACCR), of which Professor Anver Emon (Director, IIS) was a member from 2022 to 2024.
