Dr. Amal Sayyed

Amal Sayyid is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan and has been teaching there since 2007. She received her doctorate from International Islamic University, Islamabad. Her research engages with the politics of cultural representation of Muslims in the context of 9/11, the war on terror and Islamophobia. She is currently engaged in investigating popular genre fiction as a site for articulating alternative Muslim modernities in relation to gender, youth and religious experiences. She teaches courses related to Postmodern Critical Theories, Contemporary Muslim Thought, Postmodern Literature and Comparative Literature.