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Muhammad Dan Suleiman

Research Fellow/Sessional Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations, University of Western Australia

Research Fellow/Sessional Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations, University of Western Australia Muhammad's PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Western Australia (UWA) investigated the sub-national, national, regional and global agents, structures and interests at play in both the emergence of and responses to Islamist movements in Western Africa in the post-9/11 context. At UWA, he teaches units on Africa's international politics, peace and international security. He is a Research Fellow at the UWA’s Africa Research & Engagement Centre and a Fellow of the UWA Centre for Muslim States and Societies. He is also a political analyst for a few think tanks and has received the Australian Commonwealth Parliamentary Library Summer Scholarship (2016) and The Khalifa Al-Falasi Prize in Muslim Studies (2017). He is a 2020 Fellow of the United Nations' Fellowship Programme for the People of African Descent. Muhammad is currently working on his first book on Islamist groups in (West) Africa.