Mouzayian Khalil

" You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. It comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future" ~ Thomas Sankara ✊✊✊

📰#WICIDNewsletter 7 May 2026 Our bimonthly newsletter is out! Check it out for information about our news, upcoming events, opportunities, and more: mailchi.mp/a945d76dae80/w…

#WICIDQuoteOfTheWeek is back! This week's quote is from 'Critical Global Development' by Uma Kothari and Elise Klein. Also check out the last week's quote by WICID's @daeunljung ✨ 📣 Share your favourite quotes via email or DM, and we'll select from the pool each week!

We are excited to launch WICID #DevelopmentStudiesReadingGroup 📚 Please join us for our first 'brown bag' meeting: 📅 13 May, 12-1:30PM 📍 E2.02 📖 'How Can Four Trees Make a Jungle?' by Pramod Parajuli: terrain.org/essays/14/para… All are welcome & no registration is needed!

🎙️ New #ThinkDevelopmentOutLoud episode Following her inspiring talk last month, Dr Fifa Rahman joined us for an interview highlighting the importance of decolonial approach in future pandemic governance. Please check it out and share!⬇️ youtu.be/hi1OL7FU-6g?si…

@SAIIA_info So tragic 💔 my condolences to his family

It is with great sorrow that we announce the untimely passing of Steven Gruzd, Head of the African Governance and Diplomacy Programme at SAIIA. An integral part of the Institute, Steve was known for his unwavering dedication to his work and his commitment to the policy community in Africa. We will miss his brilliant mind, his deep camaraderie and his gentle spirit. His absence leaves a significant void at SAIIA and across the continent he served so passionately. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with Steve’s family, friends and all those who had the pleasure of working alongside him. May his soul rest in peace. 🕊️

I never considered that I might receive this honour, but I’m truly grateful for it and also grateful to know that the importance of scholarship committed to valuing each life is still being recognised in these troubling times 🙏🙏🙏 warwick.ac.uk/news/pressrele…

Delighted to see the 'online first' version of the intro to our special issue which I co-authored/co-edited with Lee Jarvis and M. Lister. Twenty years of vernacular security research: An introduction - Lee Jarvis, Michael Lister, Akinyemi Oyawale, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Out now! A new special issue from @SecDialogue with an excellent line-up of contributors to mark 20 years of vernacular security research! Guest edited by @LeeJarvisPols, Michael Lister & Akinyemi Oyawale journals.sagepub.com/toc/SDI/current

You can read my recent article on gender and (counter-)terrorism in Nigeria, which is included in a Special Issue on Vernacular Security which I co-edited with Lee Jarvis and Michael Lister here (Open Access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11… #SecurityDialogue #Vernacularsecurity

📰#WICIDNewsletter 17 April 2025 Our bimonthly newsletter is out! Check it out for information about our news, upcoming events, opportunities, and more: mailchi.mp/5caa687bdc15/w…

🚨 Call for Proposals – AFRIAK Fellowships 🚨 @CODESRIA & @MastercardFdn invite researchers to apply for the African Fellowships for Research in Indigenous & Alternative Knowledges (#AFRIAK). 🔹 Deadline: May 15, 2025 Read the full call👉 codesria.org/call-for-propo…

Did you feel as anxious as Nicolai and I when we were both PhD students during a pandemic? Well, have we got a paper for you! @PAISWarwick

2025 entry to our new Politics of Climate Change MA is now open! Find out more here: warwick.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

📢Latest book by @ShirinMRai, Depletion: the human costs of caring, is now available for purchase in the UK: amazon.co.uk/Depletion-Cari… Or use the discount code: AUFLY30 (only valid on orders placed via global.oup.com)

📢 We published #WICIDAnnualReport 2023-24 online - huge thanks to our members and partners for their contribution throughout the academic year! Please check out the report here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/r…

📣WICID Newsletter 24 October 2024📰 Our bimonthly newsletter is out! Check it out for information about our news, upcoming events, opportunities, and more: mailchi.mp/2419339d6e05/w…

If you’d like a bit more sense of what the book is about, a few things I’ve posted on here over the last few weeks:

Labour's only progressive immigration policy so far. Now, how about some reasonable visa conditions for international students?

Students: do you want to learn more about strategies and activities that can support your wellbeing? Then the Understanding Wellbeing online module might be for you. It's run by @IATL_Warwick and is open to all Warwick students. Learn more: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…

My book is out! Fictions of Financialization is a critique of ‘financialization’ discourses, and an effort to articulate a renewed Marxist perspective on the power of finance in capitalism. Just published with @PlutoPress! plutobooks.com/9780745348896/…