Kamal Soleimani

Ph.D. ( 2014) in Islamic and Middle Eastern history from Columbia University

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History and Politics, Islam, Islamic and Middle Eastern history, Nationalism

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Kamal Soleimani specializes in Islamic and Middle Eastern history and politics. Soleimani received his Ph.D. ( 2014) in Islamic and Middle Eastern history from Columbia University, NY, and has taught in Turkish and American universities.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

El Colegio de México:

2021 (Spring) Reza Shah and Ataturk

2020 (Fall)Political history of the Muslim Middle East (18 00-1923)

2020 (Spring) Modern Islamic Political Thought

2020 (Spring) On the Margins: Histories of ‘Others’ in the late Ottoman Empire

2019 (Fall) Ethno-Religious Conflict in the Middle East

2019 (Fall) Nación/Identidad, Religión/Política, Género/Poder Historias, Teorías

2019 (Spring) Ethno-Religious Conflict in the Middle East

Queens College (New York):

2018 (Spring) State and Society Relations in the Modern Middle East

2018 (Spring) Introduction to Islamic History and Civilization 2018 (Spring) Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in the Middle East 2018 (Spring) Intermediate Arabic (205)

2017 (Fall) Ataturk’s Turkey and Reza Shah’s Iran

2017 (Fall) Introduction to Islamic History and Civilization

2017 (Fall) State and Society Relation in the Modern Middle East

2017 (Fall) Advanced Arabic (305)

2017 (Spring) Introduction to Islamic History and Civilization

2017 (Spring) State and Society in Modern Arabic Novels (190)

2017 (Spring) Rethinking Middle East Politics

2017 (Spring) Elementary Arabic (102)

2016 (Fall) Introduction to Islamic History and Civilization

2016 (Fall) State and Society Relations in the Modern Middle East

2016 (Fall) Renewal and Revival: Modernization and Islamic Movements (260)

2016 (Fall) Advanced Arabic (305)

City College of New York:

2017 (Summer) Labor, Legality and Migration 2017 (Summer) Cross-Cultural Perspectives 2016 (Summer) Magic, Religion, Politics

2016 (Summer) Cross-Cultural Perspectives (co-taught with Stanley Thangaraj)

At Mardin Artuklu University (Turkey):

2015 (Fall) Nations and Nationalism in the Middle East 2015 (Fall) Citizenship & Sovereignty ( Iran and Turkey) 2015 (Spring); Citizenship & Sovereignty

2015 (Spring) Education and Citizenship in the Middle East

2014 (Fall) Nations and Nationalism

2014 (Fall) State and Society in the Modern Middle East

At Columbia University (T.A.):

2014 (Spring) Contemporary Islamic Civilization

2013 (Fall) Introduction to Islamic History and Civilization

2013 (Spring) Contemporary Islamic Civilization

2012 (Fall) Myth, Religion, and Politics

2009 (Spring) Constitutionalism, Ataturk, and Reza Shah

2009 (Fall) Rethinking Middle East Politics

2008 (Fall) Introduction to Islamic History and Civilization

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS

2020 Won the 2020A ward for the Best Article in Kurdish Political Studies (sponsored by the Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida).

2013–2014 Gordon Gray, Jr. Fellowship Fund: for exciting contribution to the field

2012–2013 Dissertation Fellowship, (Columbia University)

2010–2011 Fulbright or dissertation research abroad (in Turkey)

2009–2010 FLAS Fellowship (full tuition and stipend (Columbia University)

2004 Golden Key International Honor Society

2002 Phi Beta Kappa

LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES

English
Arabic Modern Standard and Classical (near-native)
Kurdish:
- Sorani (native)
- Kurmanji (advanced)

Persian (native)
Modern Turkish (near-native)
Ottoman Turkish (expert) 7-Spanish (basic)

PRESS AND MEDIA

Infrequent Contribution to:

Kürt Araştırmaları (YouTube)

VOA (TV& Radio)

Iran Academia’s Webinar (online discussion series)

Kurd Channel TV

Voice of Kurdish-American Radio for Democracy, Peace, and Freedom BasNews

Maine Public Radio

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Editorial Board Member, the Kurdish History Journal, published in Turkey (since 2011) – Member, Middle East Studies Association (MESA)

Founding member, Kurdish Studies Student Association (KSSA) at Columbia University (2013).

Founder member of the Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies (OASIES, 2007).

Not completed

Books:

2019, Ortadoğu’da Islam ve Çatışan Miliyetçiliklar 1876-1926 (Turkish translation of Islam and Competing Nationalisms in the Middle East 1876- 1926), Istanbul: Peywand.

2018, Îslam, Îslamîzm, Devlet û Neteweperveriya Kurdî (Islam, Islamism, State and Kurdish Nationalism; Istanbul: Peywand).

2016, Islam and Competing Nationalisms in the Middle East 1876-1926 (New York: Palgrave MacLellan).

Journal Articles (Authored and Co-authored):

(Under review), “Racial Policies of De-development and Minoritization in the MENA Region”, Journal of International Political Sociology.

(Under review), “WWI, US Intervention, and Narratives of Self-determination in the Middle East: Lesser-known aspects of the King-Crane Commission,” Journal of Modern History.

(Under review), “Eco-nationalism and its Ethnic Dimension in Iran,” Journal of Conflict, Security and Development.

(Accepted), “Modern Islamic Thought and its Post-colonial and Nationalist Characteristics,” Journal of Contemporary Islam.

(Accepted), “Colonizing the Past: Racial, Religious and Nationalist Discourse in Iranian Archaeological Studies,” Current Anthropology.

2021, “Textualizing the Ethno-Religious Sovereign: History, Race, Nationalism in the Perso-Islamist Textbooks,” Nations and Nationalism. doi/10.1111/nana.12705.

2021, “Nationalism in Kurdish and Persian lexicography,” Iran Academia, 4 (7), 54-66.

2020, “‘Minoritisation’ of the Other: The Assimilatory Policies of the Iranian Ethno- theocratic State”, Postcolonial Studies Journal, 24 (1), 40-62.

2020 “Mobaraze-iy Sabz-e Sharif Bajwar va Yaranash (Persian: Sharif Bajwar’s Green Struggle)” Tisk Journal, 21 (56), 34-57.

2020 “Life and Labor on the Internal Colonial Edge and the Political Economy of Kolberi in Rojhelat”, British Journal of Sociology, 71 (4), 741-760.

2020 “The Securitization of Life under the Rule of the Perso-Shiʿi State”, Third World Quarterly. 4 (41), 663-682.

2019 “Can Non–Persians Speak? The Sovereign’s Narration of “Iranian Identity”’, Ethnicities, 19 (5), 925-947.

2019 “The Sheikh and the Missionary: Notes on a Conversation on Christianity, Islam and Nationalism”, Journal of Muslim World, 109 (3), 394-416.

2019 “Interrogating the Tribal: the aporia of ‘tribalism’ in the sociological study of the Middle East”, British Journal of Sociology, 70 (5), 1799-1824 (winner of the Central Florida University’s best article in Kurdish Political Studies Award in 2020).

2018 “I speak; therefore, I am Adam: Islamic Political Sovereignty and the Question of Caliphate”, Islamic and Muslim Studies Journal, 3 (1), 20-35.

2018 “Kurdish Sufi Master and his Christian Neighbors”, Zanj: Critical Global South Studies, 2 (1), 6-21.

2017“Modern Islamic Political Thought, ‘Islamism’ and Nationalism”, Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, 2 (1), 1-17.

2017 “Kurdish Image in the Statist Historiography; the Case of Simko”, Journal of Middle Studies, 53 (6), 949-965.

2016 “Sheikh Ubeydullah and Islamic Revivalism”, Kurdish Studies Journal, 4 (1), 5-24.

2016 “Kurd û Çêkirina ‘Xwetiyên Neteweyî’”, Zarma; Raxna ü Teorì, 9 (3), 1-21.

Book Chapters:

2021, “Islam moderno y nacionalismo y poscolonialidad” in Miradas múltiples”, Desentrañar la “política. (ed). Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee, Ciudad de Mexico: El Colegio de México

2021, “Religious Narrations of the Nation” in The Cambridge History of Kurdistan. (ed). Hamit Bozarsalan, Veil Yadirgi and Cengiz Gunes (ed.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

2021, “Η αυτοαντίληψη των Κούρδων και η αντίληψή τους για τον Άλλον (The Kurds and the emergence of nationalist ideas ” in Antonis Deriziotis, Murat Issi, Nikos Christofis (ed.) The Kurds of Turkey: History and Politics in the 20th and 21st Century (Thessaloniki: Psifides publications.

2016 “The Kurds and ‘Crafting of the National Selves’” in Gunter, M. (ed.): Kurdish Issues: Bibliotheca Iranica: Kurdish Studies Series 13 (Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 236-57).

Translations:

2016 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, “The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright” translated from English into Sorani Kurdish, Jalada; A Pan-African Writers’ Collective, Translation, Issue: 01)