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Profiles
Dr Shabnam Holliday
Lecturer in International Relations
School of Law, Criminology and Government (Faculty of Business)
Qualifications
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
PhD Discourses and counter-discourses of Iranian national identity during Khatami's presidency (1997-2005), University of ExeterMA in Middle East Politics, University of Exeter
1st Class BA (Hons) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
Professional membership
Grants & contracts
- June 2007 British Institute of Persian Studies: 6 month Residential Post-doc in Tehran to research Iranian national identity
- June 2005 British Institute of Persian Studies Research Grant
- June 2005 Prince al-Waleed Award
Research groups
- Plymouth International Studies Centre
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2019
'Populism, the international and methodological nationalism: global order and the Iran-Israel nexus'
Political Studies
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'The legacy of subalternity and Gramsci's national-popular: populist discourse in the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran'
THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY
37,
(5)
917-933
, DOI
PEARL
2010
'Khatami’s Islamist-Iranian discourse of national identity: A discourse of resistance'
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
37,
(1)
1-13
, DOI
2007
'The politicisation of culture and the contestation of Iranian national identity in Khatami’s Iran'
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
7, 1,
27-44
Publisher Site
, DOI
Books
Holliday SJ; Leech P
2016
Political Identities and Popular Uprisings in the Middle East.
London
Rowman and Littlefield International
Publisher Site
Chapters
2016
'Divided we stand? The heterogeneous political identities of Iran's 2009-2010 uprisings'
Political Identities and Popular Uprisings in the Middle East
London
Rowman and Littlefield International
Publisher Site
2014
'Iran's Own Uprising and the Arab Spring'
in Sadiki L
Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring
Routledge
, DOI
2011
'Conclusion'
in Pace M
Europe, the USA and Political Islam
Basingstoke
Palgrave MacMillan
192-204
Publisher Site
2011
'Democratization in Iran: A role for the EU?'
in Pace M
Europe, the USA and Political Islam: Strategies for Engagement
Basingstoke
Palgrave MacMillan
58-78
Publisher Site
2007
'Cities of the Middle East and North Africa'
in Dumper M; Stanley BE
Cities of the Middle East and North Africa
Santa Barbara, CA
Abc-clio
Publisher Site
2007
'Cities of the Middle East and North Africa'
in Dumper M; Stanley BE
Cities of the Middle East and North Africa
Santa Barbara, CA
Abc-clio
Publisher Site