Research Interests

Politics, history and religion:

- democracy and Islam, Islamic state versus secular state

- the different currents of Islam, especially the humanistic, egalitarian and libertarian ones, including Islamic feminism

- international relations (e.g. Arabia, the United States and Europe)

- Arab, US and European history
 
- militarism and peace, (anti-)imperialism and resistance movements

- centralized representative parliamentary democracy versus decentralized federalistic grassroots democracy
 
- capitalism and socialism, welfare state versus neoliberalism (“free market” ideology)

- democratic (libertarian) socialism and anarchism VS authoritarian state socialism (Bolshevism)