PhD , Politics

PhD , Politics

Graduated in Cairo, Sayed Khatab obtained his MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Melbourne. He participated in research and teaching in various capacities including Islamic political thought, Islamic fundamentalism, political movements, Human Rights, and Arabic Language for special purposes in a number of institutions of higher learning including Melbourne, Monash, and RMIT universities. He produced several publications and was awarded an Australian Academy of Humanities Fellowship and Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant.
Over the year 2004 and 2005, he participated in a major research project at RMIT and Borderlands Cooperative Inc., and is currently involved with Oxford in a major project on  political theory and international relation of modernity  beyond the canon. He writes regularly for SBS Arabic Radio and is often invited by the media for comments on Middle East-related issues. He has delivered several public lectures on the Middle East, political Islam and its related issues of international relations in various occasions in Melbourne. He has reviewed a large number of books and articles for leading publishers and peer reviewed journals. 
Dr Khatab has also developed a new political, theological and intellectual interpretive framework that presented a comprehensive view on a number of substantive political issues. The relation between Islam and the West, the concept of Sovereignty, intercultural relations, counterterrorism, Islam’s capacity and orientation towards modernity, democracy and international relation of modernity in the Islamic Canon are some of the issues, which besetting modern Muslim society.  
Dr Khatab’s publications in this broad field have generated comprehensive discussions worldwide and referred to by scholars, media, government officials, intelligence, policy- makers and think-tank experts. Hi book Democracy in Islam (Routledge 2007), was described as a ‘challenge to Islamic extremism’. For others it is a ‘significant contribution to the UNESCO program of intercultural relations’. This book was selected and translated into Turkish-Language and published by Elips Kitab the leading publishers in Turkey, in 2009. 
Dr Khatab convened an international conference, to discuss “Radicalisation Crossing Borders: New Directions in Islamist and Jihadist Political, Intellectual and Theological Thought and Practice”. It was held at the Parliament House of Victoria (26-27 November,2008), and sponsored by Monash University’s School of Political and Social Inquiry, the Global Terrorism Research Centre, ARC Asia Pacific Futures Research Network; and the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Victoria. 
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