Ruba Ali Al-Hassani

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Lancaster University

Ruba Ali Al-Hassani is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Lancaster University’s Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion. Her research employs interdisciplinary methodologies in the study of state-society relations in Iraq and beyond to centre and amplify voices on the ground in public discourse, analysis, and policy. Ruba’s research interests also include the Sociology of Law, transitional justice, crime, social control, and social movements. She has taught Sociology at her alma maters York University and Trent University. Ruba holds a B.Sc. in Psychology & Sociology, a M.A. in Criminology, and an LL.M. in transitional justice, as she completes her Ph.D. at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. She was a Nonresident Fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy and is a Contributing Writer at Inside Arabia and The New Arab. Ruba also sits on the Board of Directors at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture and co-founded the Canadian Association for Muslim Women in Law.

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Social Theory: Edward Saïd In order to wage our struggle [“against the whole system of confinement, dispossession, exploitation and oppression that still holds us down”], we must first feel our chains, then we must understand them, then we must break them. And we... Read More
Social Theory: bell hooks Now when I ponder the silences, the voices that are not heard, the voices of those wounded and/or oppressed individuals who do not speak or write, I contemplate the acts of persecution, torture—the terrorism that breaks spirits, that makes creativity... Read More
Writing Critical Race Theory into Desectarianization Discourse: Between State Repression and Free Speech in Iraq “In Iraq, talk about muhasassa ta’ifiyya is nothing but a lie. In reality, there is party-based muhasassa under the guise of representation. […] The state is the responsibility of all state institutions—the executive, legislative, and... Read More
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