Zahid Zamri, PhD

GCAS Research Fellow

Bio:

Zahid Zamri has immense interest in critical theory and its plausible connections with the Malay-Muslim political thought vis-à-vis the question of emancipatory strategy. His Ph.D. thesis entitled "Reframing Organic Intellectuals in Malaysia: Women's Advocacy Amongst Selected Malay Muslim Women Academics" was supervised by Associate Professor Dr. Jatswan Singh Sidhu (University of Malaya) and examined by Dr. Roy Anthony Rogers (University of Malaya), Associate Professor Dr. Maila Stivens (University of Melbourne) and Professor Dr. James Chin (University of Tasmania). He was a part-time academic and the subject-matter expert for political science at the Open University Malaysia. Currently, he is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, AbdulHamid AbuSulayman Kulliyyah (Faculty) of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia. He teaches Introduction of Political Science, Political Philosophy, and Ethics and Politics at the Department. He is also the Coordinator of Islamization of Human Knowledge for the Kulliyyah. Among his latest publications are “Gramscianism in Syed Husin Ali’s Neo-Feudalism: A Postcolonial Appraisal” (Southeast Asian Social Science Review, 2021); “Uncleanliness at the Larger Scale: The Problems of Global Capitalism” (IIUM Press, 2022); “Pandemic Era and Public Trust in Southeast Asia: The End or Triumph of (Post)Modernism?” (Emerald, 2023); and “The Monarch and His Mini Zoo: The Case of the Pet Lover Sultan” (Privacy Studies Journal, In Press).