Ali Zaidi is a social theorist interested in the globalization of, and resistance to, secular, cultural modernity. He focuses this interest more specifically on intercultural dialogue and criticism, especially pertaining to Islam and the West, or more correctly, Islam in the West. During the 2008 fall term he was a visiting fellow at the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in Leiden, Netherlands, where he pondered the effects of human rights discourses on Muslim minority communities in Western societies.
Dr. Ali Zaidi
Assistant Professor,
Global Studies
