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Anna Bekele
Research Tutor
anna.bekele@ocrpl.org
Specialty: Islamic Studies
Short Biography
Anna Bekele received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 2011. Her doctoral research focused on political Islam and mobilization in Eastern Europe. Prior to her doctoral studies, she lived in Moldova, Azerbaijan and Iran.
In 2013 she was a Robert Bosch Fellow at the Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs), one of the leading think tanks in the world. After that she worked as an executive director of the Westminster Institute in the US.
Research interests
- Political Islam
- Social movements and mobilization
- Islam in Russia
- Central Asia and Caucasus.
Publications/ Journal Articles
- Anna has a number of publications in academic journals. She also co-edited with Dr Patrick Sookhdeo Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood: A New American Strategy (2015).
- 2017 ‘Al-Shabaab and its (Un)Certain Future’
- 2015 Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood: A New American Strategy (editor and contributor); Isaac Publisher
- 2014 ‘Transnational Islamic Networks in Russia and Ukraine’, Chatham House
- 2014 ‘Boko Haram and its Impact’, The Westminster Institute
- 2013 Growing Islamic Extremism in Central Asia and the Caucasus – Situation and Outlook’, World Watch Monitor
- 2012 ‘Transnational Islamic Networks’, Sage: Transformation
- 2012 ‘Islamic Discourse in Europe: Communicating the Message and Constructing the Meaning’ , WMAC
- 2009 ‘Islamisation in Eastern Europe: A Case Study of Arraid in Ukraine’, Das Institut für Islamfragen
- 2009 Revised article on ‘Crimean Khanate’, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World.