So honoured and overjoyed to receive the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD thesis on the Middle East for my PhD thesis, "Towards a Feminist International Political Economy of Sanctions: Social Reproduction, Labour and Survival in Iran" at the @brismes.bsky.social BRISMES conference!

I won a prize this week in the PSA conference 😍 Feeling so honoured to be awarded the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Political science Association (PSA) Elizabeth Wiskemann Prize for the best PhD dissertation in the field of (in)equality and social justice!! @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

🌟New Publication! Raksha Gopal and I examine how Rohingya and Syrian refugees negotiate survival amid multiple forms of violence in India and Turkey. We introduce a new concept—the (in)securitization of social reproductive capacities—drawing on our PhDs @gvagrad.bsky.social. 📖Displaced Lives⤵️

Pleased to share my paper, “A Feminist International Political Economy of Sanctions: Crises and the Shifting Gendered Regimes of Labour and Survival in Iran", published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics. The paper is open access and available here 👇

In the last 24 hours, four babies have died from the freezing cold in Gaza. This harsh period, known locally as "Arabiniya," brings 40 days of relentless cold. As you sit in warmth, take a moment to think of others enduring unimaginable suffering and remember: Israel is a genocidal state.

If you are working in UK HE, consider donating to Brismes - the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, fundraiser to support Gazan universities & students: gofundme.com/f/the-brisme...

🎉 We're in the final stretch of celebrating 50 volumes! 🎉 Check out the 2019 most-cited article: "Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence" by Juanita Elias & Shirin M. Rai. 📄👉 buff.ly/3ZzQ2sV

feminist/queer political economy starter pack is here - let me know who else I need to add

My first single-authored paper is out in @Peasant_Journal w/ #OpenAccess. It explores how land shapes women's agency across intersecting identities after the genocide in #Rwanda, and theorises the nexus between land dispossession and gendered violence👇https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167