Contact
Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway
Melbourne
VIC
3125
Australia
ABOUT
Dr Benjamin Isakhan is Australian Research Council (DECRA) Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and Convenor of the Australian Middle East Research Forum at Deakin University, Australia. Previously, Ben has been Research Fellow with the Centre for Dialogue at La Trobe University and Research Fellow for the Griffith Islamic Research Unit, part of the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies, Australia. Ben is the author of Democracy in Iraq: History, Politics and Discourse (Ashgate, 2012) and the co-editor of The Secret History of Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), The Arab Revolutions in Context: Democracy and Civil Society in a Changing Middle East (Melbourne University Press, 2012) and The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). Ben’s DECRA project, starting in 2012, is entitled ‘Measuring the Destruction of Heritage and Spikes of Violence in Iraq’.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
All Time Periods
Arab Studies
Democratization
Media
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Iraq
Specialties
Democracy In Iraq
Orientalism And The Media
History Of Middle East Democracy
Languages
English (native)
Arabic (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2008
| School of Humanities
| Griffith University
MA (Hons)
| 1998
| School of Humanities
| Griffith University
BA
| 1997
| School of Psychology
| Griffith University
Abstracts
Cultural Destruction and National Unity: Targeting the History of Iraq
The Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions: Protests and Public Power in Post-Saddam Iraq
The Islamic State’s Destruction of Christian Heritage: Persecution, Displacement and Reconstruction
