Dissertation project
Dissertation title: Strategic ambiguity: Lessons on multicultural democracy from India, Lebanon, Spain, and Canada
Peer-reviewed journal articles
“Translating the values of the French Revolution: Democracy and Islam in 19th-century Egyptian political thought” (forthcoming at Comparative Political Theory)
"French ontological security and the Algerian War." Review of International Studies 51, no. 4 (2025): 726-745.
(With Pradeep Chhibber) "The temporary and partial personalization of political parties in India: A comparison of Indira Gandhi's INC and Narendra Modi's BJP." Social Science Quarterly 105, no. 3 (2024): 461-73.
Book chapters
"The Positive Role of Islam in Indian History and Nehru’s The Discovery of India." In Nationalism and Populism: Expressions of Fear or Political Strategies?, edited by Carsten Schapkow and Frank Jacob (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022), 275-97.
Articles under review:
“Civil war by other means: Football and the politics of ethnic conflict in Jordan”
Other article manuscripts:
“Strategic ambiguity: Understanding the success and failure of constitutional compromises in multicultural democracies”
“God's law: Islam, democracy, and the failure of a uniform civil code in twentieth-century India”
“Controversial curriculum: The politics of religious and political pluralism in post-Assad Syrian textbooks”
“Democratic secrecy: Private negotiations and the origins of constitutional compromises in multicultural democracies”
“Hate thy neighbour: Analysing the ties between Muslim-Hindu residential proximity and the BJP’s performance in the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections”
“Anacyclosis and ‘asabiyyah: The cycle of governments in Ibn Khaldoun’s Muqaddimah”