Dr Mohamed Abdou is a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar. He is the Arcapita Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University and recently completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University. He is author of Islam & Anarchism: Relationships & Resonances (Pluto Press, 2022). He wrote his transnational ethnographic and historical-archival PhD dissertation on Islam & Queer-Muslims: Identity & Sexuality in the Contemporary (2019).