About Me
I am a visiting research fellow at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.
I am also a sessional lecturer in Defence Studies Department at King's College London. I was a teaching fellow in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. I was a visiting fellow in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
I do conceptual, theoretical, and empirical research on two main issue areas:
- military force projection in foreign policy
- religious sites in international affairs
The Middle East constitutes the regional focus of my research.
At the University of Birmingham, I taught the modules International Relations Theory, both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and International Politics of the Middle East at the undergraduate level.
At King's College London, I have taught the modules Security Structures and Processes; Introduction to Strategy; Intelligence, Espionage and Surveillance; Understanding Deterrence in Theory and Practice; Sea Power and National Strategy; Proxy Warfare and Hybrid Warfare; and Strategy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence at the postgraduate level.
I have professional working proficiency in Arabic, French, and Turkish. I have elementary working proficiency in Italian as well.
Please, feel free to reach out for collaborations, inquiries, or any questions you may have.
