The Expert is an internationally renowned and award-winning academic and consultant specialising in violence against women and minorities, and racial and religious persecution in the South Asia and Muslim majority countries.
- Blasphemy allegations, religious and ethnic minority persecution and human rights issues in South Asia
- Domestic abuse, honour-based violence, forced marriage, FGM, gendered spiritual abuse against women and children, violence against women and girls in Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and Christian communities
- LGBT+ persecution in the Indian Subcontinent and Muslim majority countries
- Sectarianism, Shia and Christian persecution in South Asia
- Islamist Movements, insurgencies and radicalisation in South Asia
- Hindutva and far-right extremism in India
- Interfaith, community cohesion and social engagement
- Diaspora communities and ethnic tensions
- Counter-terrorism policies and Muslim minorities
- Islamophobia in the West and East (including India, China and Myanmar)
- Antisemitism in the UK, Europe and the USA
- Geopolitical trends and regional security in the Indian Subcontinent
The Expert has produced dozens of expert witness reports on a range of topics (as listed in their expertise), and independent and academic reports and consulting work for NGOs, governments, international organisations, academic working groups, and interfaith and minority advocacy groups. Their area of specialism broadly covers religious persecution, VAWG, honour crimes, racial and religious hatred, prejudice, stigma and violence. They are a global expert on religious abuses, cultures of violence against women, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia, as well as sectarianism and communal violence, particularly in the Indian Subcontinent and Muslim majority countries.
- ‘Between Hoors and Whores: Spiritual Abuse and Online Sexual Exploitation of the Muslim Girlchild,’ in Sexual Violence in Muslim Communities, (forthcoming chapter in open access book), May 2024.
- ‘Mapping Muslim Moral Provinces: Framing Feminized Piety of Pakistani Diaspora,’ Religions, Volume 12, Issue 5, May 2021, 356.
- “Transnational Securitization of Identity: Distinctions between Securitization and ‘Othering’ of Shias in Bahrain and Pakistan,” co-authored with Dr Hasan Hafidh. Forthcoming, Global Discourse (Summer 2019).
- ‘Resurgence of Baluch Nationalism in Pakistan: How can it be explained?’ South Asia Journal, (Issue, 14 Autumn 2015).
- ‘The Role of Self-Esteem in Understanding Prejudice’ Chapter 15 Muslims in Britain and Europe, Volume1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (May 2015).
- ‘Memory, Identity, and Extremism in the Ayodhya Dispute,’ E-IR, (April 2013).
- Muslim and Christian minorities in India, and wider South Asia region
- Muslims and Jews in the UK and Europe