Nahid Afrose Kabir

Teaching Strengths

The Modern World
Asian Studies and Modern Britain
Comparative Revolutions
Comparative Globalization
Islam in the World: State, Society and Politics

Dr Nahid Afrose Kabir

School of Education

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

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Nahid Afrose Kabir, PhD, is a Professor of History in the Department of English and Humanities at BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She holds an Adjunct Professor position at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, and Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. She holds a PhD, two Masters and a Bachelor (Hons) degree; all in History.
Dr Kabir worked as a senior research fellow at the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia, 2011-2016, and as a research fellow at the Edith Cowan University in Perth, 2005-2010. 
From 2016 to 2021, Dr Kabir was a Visiting Researcher in the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and from 2009 to 2011, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
In 2022, Nahid Kabir was the recipient of the Senior Star Scholar Research Excellence Award at BRAC University.
Since 2005, Nahid Kabir has more than 60 peer-reviewed publications. She is the author of Muslims in Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and Cultural History (London: Routledge 2005); Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2010), Young American Muslims: Dynamics of Identity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2013), Muslim Americans: Debating the Notions of American and Un-American (London: Routledge 2017), and American Muslim Perspectives on Radicalization (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, and Cham, Switzerland 2023). She is also the author of “Muslim Minorities in the World Today”, published in The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture, Islam in the World Today, Vol. 6, Part 2, Paris: UNESCO Publishing 2016, pp. 247-459. 

  • Qualitative research
  • Identity
  • Cultural diversity
  • Gender studies
  • Media studies
  • Security studies
  • Islam and politics

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2024 Kabir, N. A. (2024). Genocide during the Bangladesh Liberation war, 1971. Epiphany, Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies, 17(1), 55-85.
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2022 MacDonald, G., Abdalla, M., & Kabir, N. A. (2022). Factors influencing Australian Muslims' attitudes toward Christian-Muslim dialogue: the case of Sunni Muslims of Adelaide and Uniting Church Christians. Religions, 13(9, article no. 835), 1-16.
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2021 Kabir, N. A. (2021). A study of young Yemeni-American Muslims' identity: 2010-2021. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 41(4), 627-642.
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2020 Kabir, N. A. (2020). Australian Muslim citizens: questions of inclusion and exclusion, 2006-2020. Australian Journal of Islamic Studies, 5(2), 4-28.
2020 Kabir, N. A. (2020). Identity Politics in India: Gujarat and Delhi riots. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 40(3), 1-15.
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2016 Kabir, N. A. (2016). The road to a transcultural America: the case of American Muslim girls. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 37(3), 250-264.
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2016 Kabir, N. A. (2016). Muslim women in Australia, Britain and the United States: the role of 'othering' and biculturalism in identity formation. Journal of Muslim minority affairs, online(4), 523-539.
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2015 Kabir, N. A. (2015). The Cronulla riots: Muslims' place in the white imaginary spatiality. Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, 9(3), 1-20.
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2015 Kabir, N. A. (2015). Growing up Muslim: Muslim college students in America tell their life stories [book review]. Sociology of Religion, 76(2), 244-245.
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2015 Kabir, N. A. (2015). Muslim youth's identity in Australia: Vigilant, rational and bicultural. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 1, 1-15.
2014 Kabir, N. A. (2014). Young Somalis in Australia, the UK and the USA: An understanding of their Identity and their sense of belonging. Journal of muslim minority affairs, 34(3), 259-281.
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2012 Kabir, N. A. (2012). Review article. Continuum : journal of media and cultural studies, 26(2), 315-323.
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2011 Kabir, N. A. (2011). A study of Australian Muslim youth identity: the Melbourne case. Journal of Muslim minority affairs, 31(2), 243-258.
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2009 Kabir, N. A. (2009). Federal election 2007: racing to win, winning with race?. Illumina: an academic e-journal for performance, visual arts, communication & interactive multimedia, (3), 1-21.
2009 Kabir, N. A. (2009). The 2Rs - respect and responsibility : the case of Australian Muslim girls. Cosmopolitan civil societies : an interdisciplinary journal, 1(3), 52-67.
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Year Citation
2024 Kabir, N. A. (2024). Australian Muslims and the question of race. In Z. Abdullah (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Race (pp. 669-682). UK: Routledge.
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2023 Kabir, N. A. (2023). Nawab Sir Salimullah of Eastern Bengal. In M. Brooks, & M. Ezzani (Eds.), Source details - Title: Great Muslim Leaders: Lessons for Education (pp. 35-46). US: Information Age Publishing.
2021 Kabir, N. A. (2021). The role of digital media in the lives of some American Muslim children. In L. Green (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children (1 ed., pp. 572-583). US: Routledge.
2019 Kabir, N. A. (2019). Can Islamophobia in the media serve Islamic state propaganda: the Australian case, 2014-2015. In J. L. Esposito, & D. Iner (Eds.), Source details - Title: Islamophobia and radicalisation: breeding intolerance and violence (pp. 97-116). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2018 Kabir, N. A. (2018). Young Muslims identity in Australia and the US: the focus on the Muslim question. In A. W. Ata, & J. A. Ali (Eds.), Source details - Title: Islam in the West: Perceptions and Reactions (pp. 129-155). India: Oxford University Press.
2016 Kabir, N. (2016). Representation of Islam and Muslims in the Australian media, 2001-2005. In A. Piela (Ed.), Source details - Title: Islam and the Media (Vol. 2, pp. 167-186). UK: Routledge.
2016 Kabir, N. A. (2016). Muslim Minorities in the Americas and the Caribbean. In A. Ali, I. D. Thiam, & Y. A. Talib (Eds.), Source details - Title: The different aspects of Islamic culture: Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 323-358). UK: UNESCO.
2016 Kabir, N. A. (2016). Introduction: Muslim minorities in the world today. In A. Ali, I. D. Thiam, & Y. A. Talib (Eds.), Source details - Title: The different aspects of Islamic culture: Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 247-251). UK: UNESCO.
2016 Kabir, N. A. (2016). Epilogue: Muslim minorities in the world today. In Source details - Title: The different aspects of Islamic culture, Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 449-459). UK: UNESCO.
2016 Kabir, N. A. (2016). The Muslim minorities in Australia, New Zealand and the neighbouring islands. In Source details - Title: The different aspects of Islamic culture, Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 423-447). UK: UNESCO.
2016 Kabir, N. A. (2016). Muslim minorities in Asia. In A. Ali, I. D. Thiam, & Y. A. Talib (Eds.), Source details - Title: The different aspects of Islamic culture, Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 389-421). Paris: UNESCO.
2016 Kabir, N. A. (2016). Muslim minorities in Africa. In A. Ali, I. D. Thiam, & Y. A. Talib (Eds.), Source details - Title: The different aspects of Islamic culture, Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 359-388). UK: UNESCO.
2016 Kabir, N. A. (2016). Muslim minorities in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. In Source details - Title: The different aspects of Islamic culture: Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 287-322). UK: UNESCO.
2016 Kabir, N. A. (2016). Muslim minorities in Western Europe. In A. Ali, & I. D. Talib (Eds.), Source details - Title: The different aspects of Islamic culture: Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 253-286). UK: UNESCO.
2015 Kabir, N. A. (2015). Muslim Identity Formation in the West: The Case of Australian, British and American Muslims. In D. Iner, & S. Yucel (Eds.), Source details - Title: Muslim Identity Formation in Religiously Diverse Societies (pp. 105-126). UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2014 Kabir, N. A. (2014). Free speech: creating the 'us and them' debate. In E. Kolig (Ed.), Source details - Title: Freedom of speech and Islam (pp. 163-186). England: Ashgate.
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2012 Green, L., & Kabir, N. A. (2012). Australian Migrant children: ICT use and the construction of future lives. In F. Fortunati, L. L, P. Pertierra, & R. J (Eds.), Source details - Title: Migration, diaspora and Information Technology in global societies (pp. 91-103). UK: Routledge.
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2011 Kabir, N. A. (2011). Australasia and the Pacific. In F. Pohl (Ed.), Source details - Title: Modern Muslim societies (pp. 378-385). New York: Marshall Cavendish International.
  • Email: nahidafrose.kabir@adelaide.edu.au
  • Alternative Contact: Professor of History, Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh Email: n.kabir@bracu.ac.bd

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