Nahid Afrose Kabir, PhD
Level: 5
Kha-224 Merul Badda
Dhaka 1212. Bangladesh
Nahid Afrose Kabir is a Professor of History in the Department of English and Humanities at Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dr Nahid Kabir is also an Adjunct Professor at Edith Cowan University in Perth and at the University of South Australia in Adelaide in Australia.
Professor Nahid Kabir was a Visiting Researcher (2016-2021) at Georgetown University, and a Visiting Fellow (2009-2011) at Harvard University in the USA. She worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of South Australia (2011–2016), and Research Fellow at the Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia (2005–2010).
Nahid Kabir has taught an International Affair course in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA; and History courses in the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She has significant postgraduate students’ supervision experience including PhD supervision.
Nahid Kabir holds a PhD degree in History and an MA in Historical Studies from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. She also holds BA (Hons) and MA in History degrees from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Dr Nahid Kabir’s research interest primarily includes qualitative analysis, identity and cross-cultural understanding. She has conducted semi-structured, one-to-one interviews with young people of diverse backgrounds in Australia, America, Britain, India and Bangladesh. She has 60 peer reviewed international publications including four books published from Routledge and Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom.
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PhD degree in History, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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MA in Historical Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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MA in History, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- BA in History, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Books
Kabir, N. A. (2023). American Muslim perspectives on radicalization. (1st ed.). Palgrave Macmillan: New York; Switzerland https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43795-3
Kabir, N. A. (2017). Muslim Americans: Debating the notions of American and un-American. (1st ed.). London: Routledge.
Kabir, N. A. (2013). Young American Muslims: Dynamics of identity. (1st ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
Kabir, N. A. (2010). Young British Muslims: Identity, culture, politics and the media. (1st ed.). Edinburgh University Press.
Kabir, N. A. (2005). Muslims in Australia: Immigration, race relations and cultural history. (1st ed.). London: Routledge.
Book Chapters
Kabir, N. A. (2024). Australian Muslims and the Question of Race. In Zain Abdullah (Ed), The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Race (pp. 669-682). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/
Kabir, N. A. (2023). Nawab Sir Salimullah of Eastern Bengal. In Melanie Brooks and Miriam Ezzani (Eds.), Great Muslim Leaders: Lessons for Education (pp. 35-46). Greenwich, CT, USA: Information Age Publishing, USA. https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Great-Muslim-Leaders
Kabir, N. A. (2021). The role of digital media in the lives of some American Muslim children, 2010–2019. In L. Green, D. Holloway, K. Stevenson, T. Leaver, & L. Haddon (Eds.), The Routledge companion to digital media and children (pp. 572–583). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351004107
Kabir, N. A. (2019). Can Islamophobia in the media serve Islamic state propaganda? The Australian case, 2014–2015. In J. L. Esposito & D. Iner (Eds.), Islamophobia and Radicalization (pp. 97–116). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319952369
Kabir, N. A. (2018). Young Muslims’ identity in Australia and the US: The focus on the ‘Muslim question.’ In A. W. Ata & J. A. Ali (Eds.), Islam in the West: Perceptions and reactions (pp. 129-155). New Delhi: OUP India.
Kabir, N. A. (2016). Representation of Islam and Muslims in the Australian media, 2001–2005. In A. Piela (Ed.), Islam and the media: Critical concepts in sociology (Vol. 2, pp. 167–186). London: Routledge.
Kabir, N. A. (2016). Muslim minorities in the Americas and the Caribbean. In The different aspects of Islamic culture: Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 323–358). Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Kabir, N. A. (2016). Introduction: Muslim minorities in the world today. In The different aspects of Islamic culture: Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 247–251). Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Kabir, N. A. (2016). Muslim minorities in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. In The different aspects of Islamic culture: Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 287–322). Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Kabir, N. A. (2016). Muslim minorities in Africa. In The different aspects of Islamic culture: Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 359–388). Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Kabir, N. A. (2016). The Muslim minorities in Australia, New Zealand and the neighbouring islands. In The different aspects of Islamic culture: Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 423–447). Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Kabir, N. A. (2016). Epilogue: Muslim minorities in the world today. In The different aspects of Islamic culture: Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 449–459). Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Kabir, N. A. (2016). Muslim minorities in Asia. In The different aspects of Islamic culture: Islam in the world today2 (Vol. 6, pp. 389–421). Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Kabir, N. A. (2016). Muslim minorities in Western Europe. In The different aspects of Islamic culture: Islam in the world today (Vol. 6, pp. 253–286). Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Kabir, N. A. (2015). Muslim identity formation in the West: The case of Australian, British and American Muslims. In D. Iner & S. Yucel (Eds.), Muslim identity formation in religiously diverse societies (1st ed., Vol. 3, pp. 105–126). London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Kabir, N. A. (2014). Free speech: Creating the “us and them” debate. In Freedom of Speech and Islam (pp. 163–186). Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
Green, L., & Kabir, N. (2013). Australian migrant children: ICT use and the construction of future lives. In Migration Diaspora and Information Technology in Global Societies (pp. 91–104). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/978020314860
Kabir, N. A. (2011). Australasia and the pacific. In Modern muslim societies (1st ed., pp. 378–385). New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation.
Kabir, N. A. (2009). Islamic issues in Australia. In J. Jupp (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of religion in Australia (pp. 457–464). Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
Kabir, N. A. (2009). Middle Eastern migrants. In J. Gregory & J. Gothard (Eds.), Historical Encyclopaedia of Western Australia (1st ed., pp. 575–576). Western Australia, Crawley: The University of Western Australia Press.
Kabir, N. A. (2007). The Afghan other. In S. Poynting & G. Morgan (Eds.), Outrageous! moral panics in Australia (1st ed., pp. 148–157). Hobart, Tasmania: Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies.
Kabir, N. (2006). Representation of Islam and Muslims in the Australian media, 2001–2005. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 26(3), 313–328. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602000601141281
Journals
MacDonald, G., Abdalla, M., & Kabir, N. A. (2022). Factors influencing Australian Muslims’ attitudes toward Christian-Muslim dialogue: The case of Sunni Muslims of Adelaide and Uniting Church Christians. Religions, 13(9), 835. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090835
Kabir, N. A. (2022). A study of young Yemeni-American Muslims’ identity, 2010–2021. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2022.2029014
Kabir, N.A. (2020). Australian Muslim citizens: Questions of inclusion and exclusion, 2006 –2020. Australian Journal of Islamic Studies, 5(2), 4–28. Retrieved from https://ajis.com.au/index.php/ajis/issue/view/23
Kabir, N. A. (2020). Identity politics in India: Gujarat and Delhi Riots. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 40(3), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2020.1813990
Kabir, N. A. (2016). The road to a transcultural America: The case of American Muslim girls. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 37(3), 250–264. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2016.1163532
Kabir, N. A. (2016). Muslim women in Australia, Britain and the United States: The role of “Othering” and biculturalism in identity formation. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 36(4), 523–539. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2016.1257683
Kabir, N. A. (2015). Muslim youth’s identity in Australia: Vigilant, rational and bicultural. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 1(1), 82–96. Retrieved from https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=138106027191375;res=IE...
Kabir, N. A. (2015). The Cronulla riots: Muslims’ place in the white imaginary spatiality. Contemporary Islam, 9(3), 271–290. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-015-0347-x
Kabir, N. A. (2014). Young Somalis in Australia, the UK and the USA: An understanding of their identity and their sense of belonging. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 34(3), 259–281. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2014.939556
Kabir, N. A. (2012). Review Article. Continuum, 26(2), 315–323. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2011.562972
Kabir, N. A. (2011). A study of Australian Muslim youth identity: The Melbourne case. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 31(2), 243–258. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2011.583518
Kabir, N. A. (2009). The 2Rs – Respect and Responsibility: The case of Australian Muslim girls. Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1(3), 52–67. https://doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v1i3.1248
Kabir, N. A. (2009). Federal election 2007 : Racing to win , winning with race ? Illumina, (3), 1–21. Retrieved from https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20100519064008/http://pandora.nla.gov....
Kabir, N. A. (2009). The culture of mobile lifestyle: Reflection on the past - the Afghan camel drivers, 1860-1930. Continuum, 23(6), 791–802. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304310903302201
Kabir, N. A. (2008). Are young Muslims adopting Australian values? Australian Journal of Education, 52(3), 229–241. https://doi.org/10.1177/000494410805200302
Kabir, N. A. (2008). To be or not to be an Australian: Focus on Muslim youth. National Identities, 10(4), 399–419. https://doi.org/10.1080/14608940802518997
Kabir, N. A. (2008). The media is one‐sided in Australia: Views of Australian Muslim youth. Journal of Children and Media, 2(3), 267–281. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482790802327566
Kabir, N. A. (2008). Globalised Islam: Does it have any impact on Australian Muslim youth. The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities & Nations, 8(2), 37–46.
Kolig, E., & Kabir, N. (2008). Not friend, not foe: The rocky road of enfranchisement of Muslims into multicultural nationhood in Australia and New Zealand. Immigrants and Minorities, 26(3), 266–300. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619280802528502
Kabir, N. (2007). Mackay revisited: The case of Javanese-Australian Muslims, 1880-1999. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 16(3), 405–424. https://doi.org/10.1177/011719680701600305
Kabir, N. A. (2007). Why I call Australia “Home”? A transmigrant’s perspective. M/C Journal, 10(4). Retrieved from http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0708/15-kabir.php
Kabir, N. A. (2007). The predicament of Australian Muslim women before and after 9/1. Islamic Studies, 46(2), 241–264. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/20839069
Kabir, N. (2007). Muslims in Australia: The double edge of terrorism. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 33(8), 1277–1297. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691830701614072
Kabir, N. (2007). What does it mean to be un-Australian? Views of Australian Muslim students in 2006. People and Place, 15(1), 62–79.
Kabir, N. A., & Balnaves, M. (2006). Students “at Risk”: Dilemmas of collaboration. M/C Journal, 9(2). Retrieved from http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0605/04-kabirbalnaves.php
Kabir, N. (2006). Representation of Islam and Muslims in the Australian media, 2001–2005. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 26(3), 313–328. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602000601141281
Kabir, N. A. (2006). Depiction of Muslims in selected Australian media: Free speech or taking sides. M/C Journal, 9(4). Retrieved from http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0609/1-kabir.php
Kabir, N. (2006). Muslims in a “White Australia”: Colour or Religion? Immigrants and Minorities, 24(2), 193–223. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619280600863671
Kabir, N. A., & Rickards, T. (2006). Students at risk: Can connections make a difference? Youth Studies Australia, 25(4), 17–24.
Kabir, N. A. (2005). The Economic plight of the Afghans in Australia, 1860–2000. Islamic Studies, 44(2), 229–250. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/20838963
Kabir, N., & Evans, R. (2002). Muslims and the Australian labour market, 1980-2001. Immigrants and Minorities, 21(3), 70–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2002.9975047
Conferences
Kabir, N. A. (2010). An Australian Event: The cronulla riot revisited. In National Conference on Racism in a Global Context: Published Proceedings. Perth: Murdoch University.
Kabir, N. A. (2008). Enculturation and acculturation of Muslim youth in Australia: What is the right mix? In Online Proceedings of ‘Sustaining Culture’ (2008) Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA). Adelaide: University of South Australia. Retrieved from http://w3.unisa.edu.au/cil/csaa/files/kabir.pdf
Kabir, N. A. and Green, L. (2008). What the British papers said on the second anniversary of the London bombing. In ANZCA 08: Power and Place: Refereed Proceedings. Wellington: Massey University. Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.574.7096
Green, L. and Kabir, N. A. (2007). What the British papers said on the first anniversary of the London bombing. In Communication, Civics, Industry: Proceedings of ANZCA 2007. Melbourne: Australia and New Zealand Communication Association and La Trobe University.
Kabir, N. A. (2007). The cronulla riot: How one newspaper represented the event. In Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons: TASA/SAANZ Conference. Auckland: Department of Sociology, The University of Auckland.
Books Reviewed
Kabir, N. A.(2022) Review of a book by Moustafa Bayoumi, This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 304 pp. In Lifewriting Annual: Biographical and Autobiographical Studies5(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/
Kabir, N. A. (2021, January 05). Review of the book, Shi‘a Minorities in the Contemporary World: Migration, Transnationalism and Multilocality, edited by Oliver Scharbrodt & Yafa Shanneik. In Ethnic and Racial Studies. 44(13). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/
Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Kabir, N. A. (2020, September 10). US presidential elections and the debate on “American” and “un-American. The Business Standard. Retrieved from https://tbsnews.net/thoughts/us-presidential-elections-and-debate-american-and-un-american-130333
Kabir, N. A. (2020, August 25). Global Silence on “The Kashmir Question”. Australasian Muslim Times. Retrieved from https://www.amust.com.au/2020/08/global-silence-on-the-kashmir-question/
Kabir, N. A. (2020, July 27). Have we forgotten “the Enlightenment”? Australasian Muslim Times. Retrieved from https://www.amust.com.au/2020/07/have-we-forgotten-the-enlightenment/
Kabir, N. A. (2020, June 15). Black lives matter: A time for real reforms. The Business Standard. Retrieved from https://tbsnews.net/thoughts/black-lives-matter-time-real-reforms-93403
Kabir, N. A. (2020, June 6). Covid-19: A transnational observation. The Business Standard. Retrieved from https://tbsnews.net/thoughts/covid-19-transnational-observation-89335
Kabir, N. A. (2020, June 2). COVID-19: Fear beyond cultures. Australasian Muslim Times. Retrieved from https://www.amust.com.au/2020/06/covid-19-fear-beyond-cultures/
Kabir, N. A. (2017). A reference work of our times. UNESCO Courier. Retrieved from https://en.unesco.org/courier/2017-april-june/reference-work-our-times
Kabir, N. A. (2007, September 7). A history of Muslims in Australia. Star Weekend Magazine, (35). Retrieved from http://archive.thedailystar.net/magazine/2007/09/01/perspective.htm
Bangladesh: Brac University, Department of English and Humanities, School of Humanities and SocialSciences, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- HST 102 - The Modern World
- HST 201 - Modern South Asia
- HST 202 - Comparative Revolutions
- HST 301 - Studying History: Methodology, Scope and Relevance
- HST 404 - Comparative Globalization
- HST 405 - Islam in the World: State, Society and Politics
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HST 406: Modern Britain
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Currently supervising PhD students in the School of Education at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
- INAF (International Affair) 374: Intro to Muslim American Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.
Kabir, N. A. (2025, February 13). Delivered a talk on her book, American Muslim Perspectives on Radicalization (Palgrave Macmillan, November 2023), at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Kabir, N. A. (2025, January 17). Delivered a talk on her book, American Muslim Perspectives on Radicalization (Palgrave Macmillan, November 2023), at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta in Kolkata, India.
Kabir, N. A. (2024, October 8). Delivered a talk, "Muslims in the West: Historical and Sociological Perspectives” at the Department of History, The New College, Chennai, India.
Kabir, N. A. (2024, April 11). Delivered a talk on her recent book, American Muslim Perspectives on Radicalization, at the TRACS Migration Research Network at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia.
Kabir, N. A. (2024, April 10). Delivered a talk on her recent book, American Muslim Perspectives on Radicalization, at the Centre for Muslim States and Societies at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia.
Kabir, N. A. (2024, March 25). Delivered a talk, "Remembering The 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh", at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Kabir, N. A. (2022, March 31). Delivered a talk, “An Understanding of Yemeni-American Muslims’ Identity”, at the Postgraduate Islamic Studies Network Workshop Series at the Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
Kabir, N. A. (2021, May 21-22). Witnessing the Genocide in Bangladesh in 1971 [Paper presentation]. Conference Narratives from Behind Barbed Wire: “Witness Literature” in the Historical and Political Context of the 20th Century. St Petersburg University, Russia. https://artesliberales.spbu.ru/en/calendar/narratives-from-behind-barbed...
Kabir, N. A. 2020 (13 Dec). Paper, “The 1971 Genocide: The Plight of the People of Bangladesh” presented at the 4th International Conference on Genocide and Mass Violence in the Twenty First Century: Lessons from History, at the Centre for Genocide Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 13-15 December. https://www.facebook.com/genocide.du/videos/236783367806315
Kabir, N. A. 2019 (26 April). Paper, “Identity Politics in India: The Case of Gujarat Riots”, presented at the Ninth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society, University of Granada, Spain, 25-26 April. https://religioninsociety.com/
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Senior Star Scholar Research Excellence Award, 2022, Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Attorney General Department's Building Community Resilience Grant, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 2012-2014.
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Twenty Really Good Grants Scheme: Discovery Project, and other grants, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 2012-2013.
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Edith Cowan University: Early Career Research Grants, 2006-2008, Perth, Australia.
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Deans Commendation for Academic Excellence Distinction, 2002, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
- Australian Postgraduate Award, The University of Queensland, 1999-2002, Brisbane, Australia.