EP 267: Dawoodi Bohras in Montreal, public scholarship, and social media platforms w/Arwa Hussain

The Classical Ideas Podcast · Jun 22, 2023 · 40m

Arwa Hussain is a Ph.D. candidate in Religions and Cultures and 2022-23 Public Scholar at Concordia University in Montreal. Her current research interests deal with Islamic communities, particularly her own community, the Dawoodi Bohras, gender and agency, and social media platforms. Her dissertation combines digital ethnography and personal experience to understand how pious Dawoodi Bohra women embed their agency within a religious community and represent themselves on social media, the first study of its kind to shed light on this dynamic community and its women. Her doctoral research is…