Yafa Shanneik
Researcher
Yafa Shanneik is Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies. Her research focuses on the intersections between Islam, gender, and migration in two regional contexts: Europe and the Middle East. She has a particular interest in transnational Muslim female resistance movements and has conducted extensive ethnographic research in Britain, Germany, Ireland, Jordan, Iran and the Arab Gulf states. Currently, she is working on a project, funded by the British Academy, which examines transnational migration of Syrians and Iraqis particularly focusing on gendered power dynamics due to conflict-induced displacement. Shanneik uses unconventional research approaches in studying migration and displacement experiences including the use of expressionist art through body-mapping as well as new technology including augmented and virtual reality. The aim of her research is to offer new understandings of Muslim female mobilization and political participation by examining the various strategies Muslim women employ to express resistance to existing orders of power.
She published in numerous journals including Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Religion; Journal of Material Religion; Religion and Gender; Journal ofMuslims in Europe; Journal of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations; Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. Her monograph: The Art of Resistance in Islam. The Performance of Politics among Shi‘i Women in the Middle East and Beyond was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.
Publications
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Islam, Gender and Sexualities
Yafa Shanneik
(2024) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion
Article in encyclopediaShiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala : Religion That Matters
(2024) Handbook of oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, 179
BookArranged or not Arranged : Transnational Marriages among Syrian Refugees in Germany
Yafa Shanneik
(2023) Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts , p.109-124
Book chapterMaking Fatima’s Presence Visible : Embodied Practices, Shiʿi Aesthetics and Socio-Religious Transformations in Iran
Yafa Shanneik
(2023) Material Religion, 19 p.171-189
Journal articleThe Art of Resistance in Islam : The Performance of Politics among Shi'i Women in the Middle East and Beyond
Yafa Shanneik
(2022) Cambridge Middle East studies
BookLamenting Karbala in Europe : Husayni Liturgy and Discourses of Dissent amongst Diasporic Bahraini and Lebanese Shiis
Fouad Gehad Marei, Yafa Shanneik
(2021) Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 32 p.53-79
Journal articleGlobal Dynamics of Shi'a Marriages : Religion, Gender, and Belonging
(2021) Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
BookDisplacement, humanitarian interventions and gender rights in the Middle East : Syrian refugees in Jordan as a case study
Y. Shanneik
(2021) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47 p.3329-3344
Journal articleReformulating Muslim Matrimony : Islamic Marriage and Divorce in the Contemporary United Kingdom and Europe
Justin Jones, Yafa Shanneik
(2020) Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 40 p.1-5
Journal article (comment)Islamic studies and the arts : new research methodologies in working with refugees in Jordan
Y. Shanneik
(2018) Contemporary Levant, 3 p.157-162
Journal articleMapping Shia muslim communities in Europe : Local and transnational dimensions: An introduction to the special issue
Yafa Shanneik, Chris Heinhold, Zahra Ali
(2017) Journal of Muslims in Europe, 6 p.145-157
Journal articleMapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe : Local and Transnational Dimensions
(2017) Journal of Muslims in Europe, 6
Editor for a journal“They Aren’t Holy” : Dealing with Religious Differences in Irish Primary Schools
Yafa Shanneik
(2016) Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies, 4 p.165-180
Book chapterReligious Education in a Global-Local World
(2016) Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies, 4
BookMuslim women in Ireland
Yafa Shanneik
(2015) Muslims in Ireland: Past and Present , p.193-215
Book chapterMuslims in Ireland : Past and present
Oliver Scharbrodt, Tuula Sakaranaho, Adil Hussain Khan, Yafa Shanneik, Vivian Ibrahim
(2015)
BookGendering religious authority in the diaspora : Shii women in Ireland
Yafa Shanneik
(2013) Routledge Studies in Religion , p.58-68
Book chapterConversion to Islam in Ireland : A post-Catholic subjectivity?
Yafa Shanneik
(2012) Journal of Muslims in Europe, 1 p.166-188
Journal articleConversion and religious habitus : The experiences of Irish women converts to Islam in the pre-celtic tiger Era
Yafa Shanneik
(2011) Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 31 p.503-517
Journal articleA literary dialogue of cultures : Arab authors in Germany
Yafa Shanneik
(2008) Muslim Minorities, 7 p.353-370
Book chapter