Bio
Amir Mohamed Aziz is a writer and scholar of critical race/ethnicity and disability studies, gender studies, critical carceral studies, and immigration. Amir’s research focuses on U.S., northern African, Algerian, French, and Muslim contexts at the intersections of gender, ability, race/ethnicity, religion, and migration.
One of Amir’s projects examines how so-called ‘counterterrorism’ and ‘War on Terror’ policies of detention, incarceration, surveillance, and policing have impacted the lives of (im)migrant women, Muslims, and gender non-normative communities of color in the United States.
Amir is also a member of the Middle East Studies Graduate Forum and the Center for African Studies, and teaches courses such as Prison Abolition and Gender, Culture, Representation.
Selected Publications
“On Islamophobia, Anti-Terrorism Securitization, and Secularism in France.” Jadaliyya. March 15, 2021, https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/42484/On-Islamophobia,-Anti-Terrorism-Securitization,-and-Secularism-in-France.
“The South of Algeria has something to say.” Africa Is a Country. July 30, 2019. https://africasacountry.com/2019/07/the-south-has-something-to-say.
“Protesting Politics in Algeria.” Middle East Report Online. March 26, 2019. https://merip.org/2019/03/protesting-politics-in-algeria/.
“Rewriting Algeria: Transcultural Kinship and Anticolonial Revolution in Kateb Yacine’s L’homme aux sandales de caoutchouc.” In Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora, ed. Abimbola Adelakun and Toyin Falola. 2018. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Fellowships/Grants/Awards
- Center for African Studies Graduate Student Enhancement Grant, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 2019
- Summer Fieldwork Grant for Research on Human Rights and Economic Inequality, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2016-2017