Dr. Mostafa Khalili (ORCID) obtained his Ph.D. in Global Society Studies from Doshisha University in 2020. He was a JSPS International Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo from 2020 to 2022. His research interest includes exploring ethnicity and minority nationalism from an anthropological angle, particularly in the context of politically unstable regions. He is an expert on the Kurds' trans-border relations with an extensive field research experience in the tri-border area of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. He has published articles in various journals, including Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism and the Journal of Global Studies. During his fellowship at GDC, he will focus on the development of political Islam in Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan.
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