Academic Work

For a listing of Alex Shams’ academic work as well as access to articles, chapters, and book reviews, please review his Academia.edu page.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

2023 The Politics of Arbaeen: Transcending Militarized Urbanism in Iraq’s Shrine Cities in The Project on Middle East Political Science: Urban Politics in the Middle East and North Africa.

2021From guests of the Imam to unwanted foreigners: the politics of South Asian pilgrimage to Iran in the twentieth century” in Middle Eastern Studies.

2019 “Why do Palestinians burn Jewish holy sites?: The fraught history of Joseph’s Tomb” in Jerusalem Quarterly. Issue 78 (2019): 77-85.

2016 “Revolutionary Religiosity and Women’s Access to Higher Education in the Islamic Republic of Iran” in Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies. 12.1 (2016): 126-138.

2015 “Between al-Khader and Nabi Rubeen: Religious Pilgrimage and Palestinian Shared Worlds of Meanings” in Jerusalem Quarterly. Issue 63 (2015): 95-104.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

2019 “If not for the Revolution: How higher education became an ‘Islamic right’ for religious Iranian women” in Women, Islam, and Education in Iran, Routledge, 2019.

2016 “Are Iranians people of color?: Persian, Muslim, and model minority race politics” in White privilege : essential readings on the other side of racism, Worth.

2015  “Urban Space and the Production of Gender in Modern Iran” in The Funambulist Papers Volume 2.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

2018  Review of “Hollow Land” by Eyal Weizman in the Journal of Palestine Studies: XLVII (Winter 2018): 88-89.

 

LANGUAGES

English: Native

Persian: Fluent in Reading, Writing, and Speaking

Arabic: Fluent in Reading, Writing, and Speaking (Levantine)

Spanish: Fluent in Reading, Writing, and Speaking

Turkish: Professional in Reading and Speaking

French: Professional in Reading and Writing

Uzbek: Intermediate in Reading