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Tahir Abbas

(He/Him)
Birmingham, The Hague
As seen in: Medium, The Guardian, The Telegraph, LSE Connect, Times Higher Education, openDemocracy, Middle East Eye, Prospect Magazine, New Internationalist, Zócalo Public Square, Fair Observer and
Covers:  Race, ethnicity, Islam, Muslims, politics, society, culture, history, social policy, global affairs
Prof of Criminology & Global Justice | Director, Centre on Radicalisation, Inclusion & Social Equity @AstonUniversity | Sci Coord @DriveH2020 | FRSA | FAcSS

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Tahir Abbas’s Biography

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Tahir Abbas PhD FAcSS is Professor of Radicalisation Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Studies at Leiden University in The Hague. https://tahir-abbas.com/

Tahir Abbas’s Journalist Portfolio

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Overheid, stop met het bespioneren van moslims

Overheid, stop met het bespioneren van moslims

De recente onthulling van geheime onderzoeken door het ministerie van Sociale Zaken, gericht tegen moslims en…

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Edward Said's Orientalism and Its Insights on Radicalisation Discourses - Tahir Abbas

Edward Said's Orientalism and Its Insights on Radicalisation Discourses - Tahir Abbas

On 25 September 2023, it will be the twentieth anniversary of the passing of the great scholar Edward Said, a…

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The Corruption Quagmire: Pakistan's Struggle for Transparency and Accountability

The Corruption Quagmire: Pakistan's Struggle for Transparency and Accountability

A range of obscure and sinister events are emerging in Pakistan with the finding of corruption in relation to…

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Pakistan's Turbulent Political History: Corruption, Coups, and Foreign Meddling

Pakistan's Turbulent Political History: Corruption, Coups, and Foreign Meddling

The origins of this cycle trace back to 1977, when General Zia ul-Haq seized power in a military coup, overth…

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A pyrrhic victory? What Erdoğan's reelection means for Turkey

A pyrrhic victory? What Erdoğan's reelection means for Turkey

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won reelection in Turkey's 2023 presidential election, but was the result a pyrrhic vict…

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Franse scheiding van kerk en staat is te rigide

Franse scheiding van kerk en staat is te rigide

In Frankrijk zijn hevige rellen uitgebroken, na de politiemoord op een 17-jarige jongen van Noord-Afrikaanse …

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Articles

The Narcissism of Small Differences: Mark Carney and the Western Anxiety of Being Treated Like the Global South

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By Tahir Abbas
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When the “rules-based order” stops serving its architects, suddenly the system is broken, but only for them Press enter or click to view image in full size The Hypocrisy of Carney’s “New World Order”: When Imperial Chickens Come Home to Roost Mark Carney’s recent speech at Davos has sent shockwaves through the Western liberal intelligentsia.
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The Predator State: How American Power is Mutating While No One Was Looking

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By Tahir Abbas
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Press enter or click to view image in full size Something strange is happening to American hegemony. It’s not collapsing—not in the way the declinists of the 1980s predicted, with Japanese industrial might and Soviet military prowess eclipsing Washington’s influence. Nor is it triumphantly resurgent, whatever the chest-thumping over “America First” might suggest.
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Between Siege and Revolt: Why Iran’s Current Crisis Defies Simple Narratives

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By Tahir Abbas
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Press enter or click to view image in full size As Iran enters its third week of nationwide protests in early January 2026, with at least 116 deaths and 2,600 detentions documented by human rights monitors, the world faces a familiar challenge: understanding what’s actually happening behind a near-total communications blackout.
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How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

I do the pitching when a story interests me - never the other way round.

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter

Why did you become a journalist?

I write journalistic pieces as ways to develop open-ended non-academic ideas in response to events and issues.