Zahra Ali

ORCID: 0000-0002-1712-8794
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Research Areas
  • Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
  • Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
  • Gender, Security, and Conflict
  • Islamic Studies and History
  • Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Turkey's Politics and Society
  • Political and Social Issues
  • Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
  • Middle East Politics and Society
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Asian Studies and History
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Religion, Society, and Development
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Health and Conflict Studies
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Migration, Identity, and Health
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions

Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre
2023-2024

Oak Ridge Associated Universities
2024

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
2024

California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences and Psychology (United States)
2023

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2017-2023

Nishtar Medical College and Hospital
2023

St. Martinus University
2023

Pinderfields Hospital
2023

Bolan University of Medical and Health Sciences
2023

Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences
2023

Difficulty visualizing bruises resulting from interpersonal violence, especially in individuals with dark skin, contributes to disparities access justice. The purpose of this analysis was compare bruise visibility detected injuries using white light versus alternate sources (ALS). Visibility assessed the 5-point Bruise Scale (BVS) for and ALS (AVS) ALS. Bruises were induced controlled application a paintball upper arm on 157 healthy adults across six skin color categories. Using crossover...

10.1111/1556-4029.15481 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Journal of Forensic Sciences 2024-02-07

Absence epilepsy syndromes are part of the genetic generalized epilepsies, pathogenesis which remains poorly understood, although a polygenic architecture is presumed. Current focus on single molecule or gene identification to elucidate epileptogenic drivers unable fully capture complex dysfunctional interactions occurring at genetic/proteomic/metabolomic level. Here, we employ multi-omic, network-based approach characterize molecular signature associated with absence epilepsy-like phenotype...

10.3390/ijms23116063 article EN International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2022-05-28

Abstract Drawing on critical feminist and decolonial perspectives, this article takes research Iraq as a framework to raise essential questions about politics geopolitics of knowledge production what constitutes the global academy today. It analyzes structural, infrastructural, political dimensions that led being researched theorized outside its borders, it highlights systemic inequalities existing between scholars based in United States Iraq. The also development agendas stemming from...

10.1215/1089201x-11470367 article EN Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East 2024-12-01

À partir d’une double approche, socio-anthropologique et historique, notre contribution propose, à travers une ethnographie du mouvement des femmes de l’Irak post-Saddam étude historique l’évolution politiques genre en Irak depuis l’époque ba’athiste jusqu’à la période d’occupation américaine, éclairer les imbrications questions genre, religion nation dans contemporain.

10.3917/lhs.189.0223 article FR L Homme et la société 2014-02-01

Based on in-depth fieldwork, this article explores protest movements in Iraq drawing theorizations NGOization, civil society and social movements. I situate the protests within country's social, political economic contexts. Then, look at women youth's involvement showing importance to consider traumatic experience of sectarian violence understand their organizing demands. argue that Iraqis have experienced collapse a strong authoritarian welfare centralized state, process started 1990s was...

10.1080/17502977.2021.1886794 article EN Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 2021-03-26

The growing use of English by its L2 users for intra-national and international communication has created a need dramatic changes in ELT (English Language Teaching). One the major that scholars have called is to incorporate diversity form, user culture into existing curriculum. However, this still remains at theoretical level. Although some studies attempted uncover practicality call, they are mostly based Inner Circle Expanding countries as opposed Outer with colonial past. Therefore, study...

10.1080/13488678.2015.1006350 article EN Asian Englishes 2015-03-04

The effect of self absorption becomes significant when plasma is dense enough to behave as optically thick. It essential account for the self-absorption in that case. variation radial trajectory investigated this paper. In order analyze line radiation argon by observing influence pressure gas. On comparison results numerical experiment considering both aspects i.e. including and excluding term Lee code an obvious deviation between trajectories observed. Last few fractions seconds (200-300...

10.1016/j.proeng.2011.03.072 article EN Procedia Engineering 2011-01-01

Abstract This article provides an introduction to the special issue on Mapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe .1 With six empirically rich case studies communities various European countries, this intends: first, illustrate historical developments and emergence of presence Europe; second, highlight local particularities within each nation state demonstrate their transnational links; third, provide for first time empirical comparative study increasingly visible that fills important gap...

10.1163/22117954-12341345 article EN Journal of Muslims in Europe 2017-12-04

This article proposes theorising contemporary uprisings through an analytical lens that considers the discursiveness, spatiality and materiality of protests protesters, ways in which bodies affects are mobilised. It offers in-depth analysis October 2019 uprising Iraq, commonly known as Thawra Teshreen, exploring infrastructural, structural political dimensions shaped protesters' lives deaths. shows protesters put forward their own politics life death streets, mobilising people...

10.1080/01436597.2022.2161359 article EN Third World Quarterly 2023-01-17

Abstract This article explores Iraqi women’s political activism since 2003. It focuses on an in-depth ethnography of organizations conducted mainly in Baghdad, and Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Najaf-Kufa, Karbala Nasriya. I will start by considering the relationship between gender notion NGOization Iraq. Secondly, explore some aspects characterizing post-2003 context its concrete impact lives activism. look specifically at issue funding civil society ways which women activists deal with situation...

10.1386/ijcis.12.1.35_1 article EN International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies 2018-03-01

The current research focuses on the antioxidant activity, phytochemical, and inorganic content of five common medicinal plants: Asian pigeonwings, lemon balm, lemongrass, ginger, turmeric. According to phytochemical screening, flavonoids were present in all plants; tannins balm saponins plants except anthraquinone glycosides detected only aqueous extracts from methanolic extract turmeric had highest phenolic content, respectively. composition was determined using energy dispersive X-ray...

10.24996/ijs.2022.63.7.1 article EN Iraqi Journal of Science 2022-07-31

Current tools for functionally profiling T cell receptors with respect to cytotoxic potency and cross-reactivity are hampered by difficulties in establishing model systems test these proteins the contexts of different HLA alleles against broad arrays potential antigens. We have implemented a granzyme-activatable sensor cytotoxicity universal prototyping platform which enables facile recombinant expression any combination TCR-, peptide-, class I MHC-coding sequences direct assessment...

10.1038/s41698-024-00669-9 article EN cc-by-nc-nd npj Precision Oncology 2024-08-19

10.3917/tumu.048.0005 article Tumultes 2017-06-29

This article explores feminisms and women’s activisms in today’s Iraq highlights the heterogeneity of both their religious secular expressions analysing them relation to each other rather than as distinct. I argue that not only do we need go beyond Islamist/secular dichotomy but analyse what’s in-between these categories. In order understand in-betweenness, Iraqi have be examined imbricated complex social, economic political contexts discursive material. start by reflecting...

10.13060/25706578.2019.20.2.483 article EN cc-by-nc Gender and Research 2019-12-30
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