{"id":2577,"date":"2026-04-11T15:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islamophobiareport.com\/en\/?page_id=2577"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:39:44","slug":"2024-authors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/islamophobiareport.com\/en\/index.php\/2024-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1663967938633{padding-top: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1563436902177{margin-top: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_inner]<div class='cws_textmodule_69e35e13f09e5 cws_textmodule subtitle_above'><div class='cws_textmodule_content_wrapper'><p><strong>ADRIANA CUPCEA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adriana Cupcea is a researcher at the Romanian Institute for Research on Na tional Minorities, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She has a PhD in history from Babe\u0219-Bol yai University of Cluj-Napoca. Her research interests focus on Muslim communities in the Balkans, particularly in Romania, Turkey\u2019s kin-state policies in the Balkans, and Islamophobia. Her most recent publication is the co-edited volume Aspects of Is lamic Radicalization in the Balkans After the Fall of Communism (Peter Lang, 2023). Currently, she is coordinating the research project \u201cInvisible Minorities. Millet, Turk ish Tinsmiths and Davulcu in Dobruja (Romania)\u201d (2023-2025) supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Email: adriana.tamasan@gmail.com X-account: @AdrianaCupcea<\/p>\n<p><strong>AIDA SALIHOVIS-GUSIC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aida Salihovi\u0107-Gus\u030ci\u0107 is an education officer at the Professor Zdravko Grebo Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herze govina. She holds a master\u2019s degree in English literature from the University of Sara jevo and a master\u2019s degree in democracy and human rights in Southeast Europe from the University of Sarajevo\/University of Bologna. Her master\u2019s thesis focused on the hijab ban in public institutions in B&amp;H. Email: <a href=\"mailto:aidasalihovic@live.com\">aidasalihovic@live.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ALEXANDRA SOPA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Sopa is a research fellow in Russia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALEXANDROS SAKELLARIOU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alexandros Sakellariou is a senior researcher at the National and Kapodis trian University of Athens, Greece. He earned his PhD in sociology of religion from the Department of Sociology of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences of Athens. He taught at the Hellenic Open University (2016-2024), and has exten sive research experience in national and European projects since 2011. His scientific interests include, among others, sociology of religion and non-religion, sociology of youth, politics and religion, religious communities in Greek society, youth activ ism and civic participation, right-wing extremism, radicalisation, and qualitative re search methods. He has authored two books, Religion and Pandemic in Greek Society: Power Relations, Religious Populism and the Pending Secularisation (2020, in Greek) and Atheism in Greek Society: From Orthodox Religious Memory to the Atheist Religious Consciousness (2022, in Greek), and edited the volume Secularisation: From the Return of God to the Persistence of the Secular (2024, in Greek). He is a board member of the Hellenic Sociological Association and a member of the Eurel Network (Sociological and Legal Data in Europe and beyond). Email: <a href=\"mailto:sakellariou.alexandros@ac.eap.gr\">sakellariou.alexandros@ac.eap.gr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ALI HUSEYINOGLU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ali Huseyinoglu was born in Komotini, Greece. After completing primary ed ucation at the bilingual (Turkish and Greek) school in his hometown, he continued secondary and higher education in Istanbul and Ankara. Huseyinoglu received his BA and MSc from the Department of International Relations, Middle East Techni cal University (METU) and PhD from the University of Sussex, UK. Since 2020, he has been working as an associate professor in the Balkan Research Institute at Trakya University, in Edirne, T\u00fcrkiye. His main research interests include human rights, mi nority issues, migration studies, Turkish-Greek relations, the Muslim Turkish minor ity of Western Thrace, religious freedoms, and Islamophobia. Email: <a href=\"mailto:alihuseyinoglu@trakya.edu.tr\">alihuseyinoglu@trakya.edu.tr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>AMINA SEMSOVIC MADZGALJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amina \u0160emsovi\u0107 Mad\u017egalj has a BA (University of Novi Pazar) and an MA (University of Kragujevac) in English language and literature. Her civic activism earned her a scholarship for the European Regional Master\u2019s Programme in Democ racy and Human Rights (joint degree) at the University of Bologna and the Univer sity of Sarajevo. After her graduation in 2016, she gained extensive experience in the field of human rights through numerous training programs, projects, and summer schools. In 2018, she was awarded a fellowship at the Office of the UN High Com missioner for Human Rights. As a representative of the Bosniak and Muslim minor ity in Serbia, \u0160emsovi\u0107 Mad\u017egalj participated in several UN bodies including the 11th and 13th sessions of the Forum on Minority Issues. \u0160emsovi\u0107 Mad\u017egaljcurrently re sides and is employed in Switzerland, working in the NGO sector, primarily focus ing on migration policy and the rights of underage asylum seekers. Email: <a href=\"mailto:aminamadzgalj@gmail.com\">aminamadzgalj@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>AMINA SMITS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amina Smits is a Belgian researcher and writer whose work explores Islamopho bia, Orientalism, and the normalisation of far-right discourse in Europe. She studied Middle Eastern Studies at KU Leuven and earned her MA at the Alliance of Civili zations Institute, now connected to Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. She has au thored book chapters on Orientalism and the extreme right. Smits currently works as a news editor and researcher at TAV (T\u00fcrkiye Ara\u015ft\u0131rmalar\u0131 Vakf\u0131, T\u00fcrkiye Research Foundation). Drawing on both academic and media experience, Smits examines how narratives of identity, religion, and belonging shape political discourse and continues to advocate for awareness around structural and everyday Islamophobia. Email: aminasmits@gmail.com X: @SmitsAmina<\/p>\n<p><strong>ARISTOTLE KALLIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aristotle Kallis is a professor of modern and contemporary history at Keele Uni versity, UK. His research interests revolve around fascism and the contemporary radi cal\/far right in transnational terms, with a particular focus on the \u2018normalisation\u2019 and \u2018mainstreaming\u2019 of extreme views and on the processes that facilitate taboo-breaking language and behaviour. He has published extensively on the history of fascism and the radical right; on the rise of far-right extremism in Greece and Germany; on the mainstream-extremism nexus with regard to a number of key themes in the ideology of the far right including nationalism, sovereignty, and attitudes to particular groups of \u2018others\u2019; and on Islamophobia and antisemitism. Email: a.kallis@keele.ac.uk LinkedIn: @aristotle-kallis<\/p>\n<p><strong>AZIZ NAZMI SAKIR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aziz Nazmi \u015eakir (PhD, History of Sciences, Istanbul University) earned his BA and MA from the Arabic Philology and Turkic Studies Departments of St. Kliment Ohridski, University of Sofia, respectively. Since 2001 he has been a faculty mem ber at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and School of Languages at Sabanci University, Istanbul. \u015eakir is currently a researcher at Sofia University \u201cSt. Kliment Ohridski,\u201d Sofia. Besides his academic research dedicated to the Ottoman heritage in the Balkans and Bulgaria\u2019s Muslims, he is an accomplished writer and translator with more than thirty translations of poetry and prose to his credit. His latest publication is a translation from Arabic into the Bulgarian language of The Ode of the Cloak (Qa sidat al-Burdah) by Muhammad al-Busiri (1212-1296) (August 2025). Email: <a href=\"mailto:ashakir@uni-sofia.bg\">ashakir@uni-sofia.bg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CORA ALEXA DOVING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cora Alexa D\u00f8ving is a research professor at the Center for Studies of Holo caust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway in the field of minority studies. Over the past years, she has published on racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, and prej udice. D\u00f8ving was the leader of the research project \u201cNegotiating Jewish Identity \u2013 Jewish Life in 21st Century Norway,\u201d funded by the Norwegian Research Council, in 2019-2022, and the leading curator of the exhibition \u201cIn\/visible. Everyday Rac ism in Norway.\u201d D\u00f8ving is part of the research group that conducts surveys on atti tudes towards Muslims in Norway (2017, 2022, and 2024). Her latest publications that are related to Islamophobia are the chapters \u201c\u2018Muslims Are\u2026\u2019 Contextualizing Survey Answers\u201d and \u201cA Growing Consensus? A History of Public Debates on Islam ophobia in Norway\u201d in Hoffmann and Moe (eds.), The Shifting Boundaries of Prej udice: Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Contemporary Norway, (Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 2020), and the article \u201cBringing the Enemy Closer to Home: Con spiracy Talk and the Norwegian Far Right\u201d in Patterns of Prejudice (2021). D\u00f8ving is the editor of the book Rasisme. Fenomenet, forskningen, erfaringene (Racism: Phenom enon, Research, and Experiences) (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2022). Email: <a href=\"mailto:c.a.doving@hlsenteret.no\">c.a.doving@hlsenteret.no<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>DANIEL VEKONY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>D\u00e1niel V\u00e9kony is an assistant professor at the Institute for Global Studies at Cor vinus University of Budapest, Hungary and a researcher at Vytautas Kavolis Trans disciplinary Research Institute, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. He received his PhD in international relations in 2017 from Corvinus University of Bu dapest. V\u00e9kony\u2019s main research focus is Muslims and Islam in Europe. He was part of the GREASE Religion, Diversity and Radicalisation research consortium and is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. His latest paper, co-au thored by Edgunas Racius, is titled \u201cGovernance of Religious Diversity in Central Europe: A Religious Nationalism Inspired Illiberal Turn in Hungary and Slovakia?\u201d (Ethnicities, 2024). Email: daniel.vekony@uni-corvinus.hu, <a href=\"mailto:daniel.vekony@vdu.lt\">daniel.vekony@vdu.lt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>EGERT RUNNE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Egert R\u00fcnne is the executive director of the Estonian Human Rights Centre (EHRC). He holds a master\u2019s degree from Tallinn University and has led or contrib uted to numerous national and EU-level human rights publications. His areas of ex pertise include civic space and minority rights. Email: egert.rynne@humanrights.ee X: @EgertRynne<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENRIQUE TESSIERI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enrique Tessieri is a sociologist (MSc) and former foreign correspondent who has written and researched immigration topics. As a journalist, Tessieri worked as a foreign correspondent in countries like Finland, Spain, Italy, Argentina, and Colom bia, writing on human rights, business, and foreign investment. Tessieri is the editor of Migrant Tales, Finland\u2019s oldest anti-racism blog which he founded in 2007. He was formerly a board member of the European Network Against Racism (2016-2019) and has founded a number of associations like the Rom-Mikkeli (Romany Associai tion of Mikkeili) and Kansainv\u00e4linen Mikkeli (International Mikkeli). Tessieri was elected to the Mikkeli City Council in 2025-2029 for the Social Democratic Party. Email: editor@migranttales.net Bluesky: @migranttales.bsky.social<\/p>\n<p><strong>FABIAN GOLDMANN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fabian Goldmann is a journalist working for various national and international media outlets. He studied Islamic and political studies, and focuses on deconstruct ing stereotypical and misleading media coverage of Islam and immigration. In work shops and for NGOs, Goldmann develops ideas with affected individuals and media professionals for a discourse on Islam beyond stereotypes. He authors Schantall und die Scharia (Chantal and the Sharia), a blog about the pitfalls of debates about Islam. Goldmann\u2019s upcoming book Staatsr\u00e4sonfunk is about German media coverage of Is rael\u2019s genocide in Palestine. Email: schantallscharia@posteo.de X: @goldi Instagram: @fabian_goldmann<\/p>\n<p><strong>FARID HAFEZ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Farid Hafez is an associate teaching professor of international relations at William and Mary, and a senior scholar at Georgetown University\u2019s The Bridge Initiative at ACMCU (Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding). He was the Class of 1955 Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College (2021-2024), and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Salz burg (2014-2021). In 2017, Hafez was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Univer sity of California, Berkeley. Since 2010, he has been the editor of Islamophobia Stud ies Yearbook, and since 2016, the co-editor of European Islamophobia Report. Hafez has received the Bruno Kreisky Award for the \u201cPolitical Book of the Year\u201d for his an thology Islamophobia in Austria (co-edited with John Bunzl). He has more than 150 publications in leading journals such as Politics and Religion, Patterns of Prejudice, and German Politics and Society. Hafez\u2019s latest publication is Politicizing Islam in Austria. The Far-Right Impact in the Twenty-First Century, co-authored with Reinhard Hein isch (Rutgers University Press, 2024). Email: fhafez@wm.edu X: @ferithafez<\/p>\n<p><strong>HIKMET KARCIC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hikmet Kar\u010di\u0107 is a research associate at the Institute for Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law, University of Sarajevo. He has a BA and LL.M. from the Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo, and a PhD in political sci ence and sociology from the International University of Sarajevo. Kar\u010di\u0107 is the au thor of the acclaimed book Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp Sys tem (University of Michigan Press, 2022). He was the 2017 Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR) and Keene State College (KSC) global fellow. His writing on genocide denial and atrocity prevention has appeared, among others, in Haaretz, Newsweek, and Arab News. Email: hikmet.karcic@iziz.unsa.ba X: @hikmet_karcic<\/p>\n<p><strong>INES BOLANOS SOMOANO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In\u00e9s Bola\u00f1os Somoano is a fellow in international security at the Institut Bar celona d\u2019Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). She holds a PhD in political and social sciences from the European University Institute (EUI), Italy, under Prof. Olivier Roy. Her PhD thesis looked at the emergence and consolidation of preventing and countering violent extremism (P\/CVE) and radicalization as a distinct policy field in the Euro pean Union. Bola\u00f1os Somoano was a visiting PhD and later a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) at Leiden University, Nether lands, for DRIVE project, on the role of social exclusion in processes of radicaliza tion to extremism in northWestern Europe. Her current research focuses on Islamo phobia in Spain, European right-wing extremism, online radicalization, and poten tial strategies to counter online right-wing milieus. Bola\u00f1os Somoano is a qualitative researcher, employing interviews, archival evidence, and policy analysis. Email: ibolanos@ibei.org \/ Bluesky: \/inesbsomoano<\/p>\n<p><strong>IVAN TRUNOV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ivan Trunov is a sociologist and researcher at the Diversity Development Group. He is interested in political sociology, the far right in Europe, LGBTQI+ issues, and migration studies. Trunov holds MS and MA degrees in sociology from Vilnius Uni versity, Lithuania. Email: <a href=\"mailto:ivan@diversitygroup.lt\">ivan@diversitygroup.lt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>JETA LUBOTENI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeta Luboteni is an independent researcher. She recently completed a master\u2019s degree at Boston University in religious studies, and also holds an MA from George Mason University in Middle East and Islamic studies. Email: <a href=\"mailto:jeta.luboteni@gmail.com\">jeta.luboteni@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>JINAN HAMMOUDE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jinan Hammoude holds a master\u2019s degree in sociology from the University of Co penhagen. Her academic background includes a strong focus on gender, intersection ality, and ethnicity, and she has worked extensively within these fields. Additionally, she has been involved in various civil society organizations in Denmark, particularly those addressing racism and Islamophobia. Currently, Hammoude is the chairwoman of the Centre for Muslims\u2019 Rights in Denmark (CEDA), a Danish NGO committed to documenting and raising awareness of Islamophobia in the country. As part of her work, she authored the first comprehensive Danish-language report on Islamopho bia, introducing a nationally grounded definition of the phenomenon and analyzing its specific manifestations in the Danish context. She also authored the most recent report, published in 2025, on the rise of Islamophobia in Denmark following the events of October 7, 2023. Hammoude is an active contributor to the public debate on Islamophobia in Denmark, regularly engaging in national media and public debate. Email: Jinan@ceda.nu X: @JinanHammoud<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOZEF LENC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jozef Len\u010d is an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and Applied Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia. His work addresses the relationship between religion and politics, with a focus on political parties, Islam, and Islamic philosophy in Europe. He is a commen tator on Slovak and international politics, especially on issues concerning the Mid dle East; the co-author of Young Migrants in Slovak Society (Brno: Tribun EU, 2012); and the author of Religion in Politics and the Position of Religious Political Parties ( Tr nava: UCM Trnava, 2016). Additionally, Len\u010d is the author of reports on Slovakia and Muslims for the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (Brill). Len\u010d serves as the expert guarantor of projects and discussions at the Wetzler Institute in Trnava, focused on policy analyses of the Middle East region, democracy, and civic education. Email: jozef.lenc@ucm.sk X: @JozefLenc<\/p>\n<p><strong>KAWTAR NAJIB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kawtar Najib is a lecturer in human geography at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. Her research expertise focuses on Islamophobia and spatial justice. Email: Kawtar.Najib@liverpool.ac.uk LinkedIn: Kawtar Najib<\/p>\n<p><strong>LOUISE RYAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Louise Ryan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Higher Education Authority-funded EMBRACED project developing anti-racism training for higher education staff across Ireland. Her recent work deals with disinformation as the animating force behind community formation on social media platforms. Email: <a href=\"mailto:louise.ryan@ul.ie\">louise.ryan@ul.ie<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MARTA PANIGHEL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marta Panighel is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Turin where she studies contemporary fascism in Italy using a feminist ethnographic methodology as part of the ERC (European Research Council) program F-WORD, which is an an thropological exploration of fascist practices and meanings among European youth. Panighel received her PhD in sociology from the University of Genoa in 2023. Her doctoral research focused on the phenomenon of gendered Islamophobia in Italy. Pan ighel is part of the International Islamophobia Studies Research Association (IISRA). Email: <a href=\"mailto:marta.panighel@unito.it\">marta.panighel@unito.it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MERSIHA SMAILOVIKJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mersiha Smailovikj is a human rights activist, lawyer, and humanitarian. She earned her master\u2019s degree in international law at the \u201cIustinianus Primus\u201d Law Fac ulty in Skopje. Her research and activism focus on issues of discrimination against Muslims and Islamophobia, gender equality, the rights of ethnic groups, and the pro tection and advocacy of refugees and migrants. Email: <a href=\"mailto:mersiha.s@legis.mk\">mersiha.s@legis.mk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NADA DOSTI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nada Dosti is a PhD candidate in social media studies at the Social Sciences Uni versity of Ankara (ASBU), Turkey. She co-authored the Albania national report for the European Islamophobia Report in 2019, 2020, and 2021. Dosti is currently work ing as a researcher at the Institute of Islamic Thought (Islam Dusunce Enstitusu) in Ankara and as a freelance journalist for TRT Balkan. Email: nada.dosti@gmail.com X:@NadaDosti<\/p>\n<p><strong>NADIA LAHDILI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nadia Lahdili is a postdoctoral research fellow in the humanities at the Univer sity of the Free State, South Africa. She holds a PhD in political science and public administration, specializing in local governance and citizen participation. Her schol arly work focuses on state-citizen relations, Muslim identity, the intersection of reli gion and public space, Islamophobia, immigration, and integration policies. Lahdi li\u2019s first master\u2019s thesis examined France\u2019s public policy towards Muslim migrants un der the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012). The study provided an in-depth analysis of how assertive laicism and the republican ideals of libert\u00e9, \u00e9galit\u00e9, fraternit\u00e9 often clash with French public policies that restrict the freedoms of religious exercise for French Muslims beyond the private sphere. Email: <a href=\"mailto:nadias.works@gmail.com\">nadias.works@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEJRA KADIC MESKIC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nejra Kadi\u0107 Mes\u030cki\u0107 is CEO at the Centre for Cultural Dialogue (CCD), which builds intercultural societies, and fights growing mistrust and polarization by strength ening intercultural and interreligious dialogue. She is an associate at the Islamic Com munity in Croatia and works at the international organization Minority Rights Group in Croatia. Kadi\u0107 Me\u0161ki\u0107 graduated from the School of Business and Economics at the University of Sarajevo. She has thirteen years of experience as an executive direc tor and program leader in the fields of human rights, minority rights, migration and integration, culture of dialogue, gender equality, and youth policies. Kadi\u0107 Me\u0161ki\u0107 is a trainer on teamwork and leadership, and has worked in the civil society sector in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and abroad. In 2013, she received an award for her contribution to the achievement of gender equality from the Parliament of Bos nia and Herzegovina. Email: nejra.kadic.sa@gmail.com X: @KadicMeskic LinkedIn: Nejra Kadi\u0107 Me\u0161ki\u0107<\/p>\n<p><strong>RAIMUNDO GREGOIRE DELAUNOY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Raimundo Gregoire Delaunoy is a journalist. He has a BA in social commu nication and an MA in international studies. Since 2006, he has been studying so ciopolitical processes in Africa and the Mediterranean as an independent researcher. He has created the independent digital media outlet Periodismo Internacional (www. periodismointernacional.cl), where he publishes analyses, policy briefs, articles, in terviews, and other content related to international issues. Since 2014, Delaunoy is a member of the South-South Intellectual Network (RISUR). He is currently work ing on a paper about the stance of South American countries in regard to the Sahara conflict. Delaunoy\u2019s latest publication is \u201cSudan\u2019s Current Conflict: Implications for the Bordering Regions and Influence of the Key Regional\/International Actors,\u201d in Journal of Social Encounters (August 2024). Email: <a href=\"mailto:raimundo.gregoire@gmail.com\">raimundo.gregoire@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SERGIO GRACIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sergio Gracia studied law at the University of C\u00f3rdoba, Spain. He holds a mas ter\u2019s degree in \u201cTerrorist Phenomenology: Bioterrorism, Epidemiological Prevention, Cyberterrorism, and Chemical Threats\u201d from the University of Granada. He is the president of CINVED (Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n de la Extrema Derecha), a research center on the extreme right in Spain. Gracia practiced law at Casa \u00c1rabe C\u00f3rdoba, and is a member of REDOI, the Spanish Network against Hate Crimes and Under reporting. He has extensive training and experience in religious pluralism, Islamic feminism, political Islam in Europe, and fundamental rights. Gracia has participated in various panels and academic conferences on racism, xenophobia, and hate crimes. He contributed to the study \u201cUnveiling the Main Frames of Islamophobia\u201d and took part in Spain\u2019s only 2024 congress on Islamophobia. Gracia collaborates with public and private institutions, and frequently comments in national and international me dia on international relations, far-right extremism, and hate speech. Email: consultas@cinved.com \/ X: @damasco1812<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHAN KAREMANI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shan Karemani is an independent researcher. He recently finished his master\u2019s degree at the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute (REEI) at Indi ana University, USA. His thesis is a critical discourse analysis of Islamophobic rhet oric from Albanian elites in Kosovo and Albania. Email: <a href=\"mailto:shanikaremani@gmail.com\">shanikaremani@gmail.com<\/a> X: @ksh4ni<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUJOOD MOMANI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sujood Momani is a sociologist specialising in the self-representation of hijabi influencers and Muslim women on social media. Her research examines how iden tity, modesty, and belonging are negotiated online, focusing on self-Orientalisation, anti-Muslim narratives, appropriation, and commodification of religiosity. Email: <a href=\"mailto:sujood.momani25@gmail.com\">sujood.momani25@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TAHIR ABBAS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tahir Abbas is a professor of criminology and global justice at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. He holds a PhD in ethnic relations from the University of War wick (2001). His recent publications include Capitalism, State Power, and the Pro duction of Extremism: A Marxist Theory of Radicalisation (SpringerBriefs in Sociol ogy) (Springer, 2025). 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