Dr Nour Almazidi is a political theorist and scholar whose work focuses on statelessness and stateless subaltern struggles, citizenship violence, coloniality, and critical and alternative human rights politics and epistemologies. She recently completed her PhD at the LSE, where she is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Gender Studies.
Almazidi’s PhD research examines the histories of colonial and statist violence that shape contemporary statelessness and offers an epistemic accounting of the political life, intergenerational and gendered struggles, and rights politics of stateless subaltern groups. Through ethnographic storytelling and oral and life history interviews, she specifically focuses on the occluded life-worlds of the pastoralist and nomadic Bedouins of the Arabian Peninsula who later became Bidun Jinsiyya (without citizenship) in Kuwait, exploring their collective resistive politics, nomadic epistemologies and histories, and alternative imaginaries of citizenship, rights, and justice. With stateless narrators, protestors, strikers, and political prisoners as her thesis’s chief protagonists, Almazidi’s research is carefully attentive to questions of moral harm, unrelenting state violence, and historical injustice. A central concern of this work is to move beyond the limits of Eurocentred, statist, and international legal frameworks toward articulating alternative political philosophies of justice and epistemologies of rights that emerge from contexts of exclusion and dispossession.
Almazidi is a trained oral historian and ethnographer whose thinking, writing, and teaching are informed by feminist, queer, Gramscian, and anti/decolonial approaches. By beginning her theorising from overlooked and rarely privileged epistemic and political sites, Almazidi’s scholarship offers original ways of thinking on statelessness, citizenship, and subaltern rights struggles.
As an eclectic and interdisciplinary thinker, Almazidi has two other lines of research. The first line is concerned with queer feminisms, gender studies in the Middle East, and contemporary anti-feminist, anti-gender, and anti-queer politics and mobilisations. Her second developing line of research explores death studies and occult sciences.
Almazidi’s research has been presented internationally and published across several venues, including the European Journal of Women’s Studies, Kohl Journal, and Palgrave Macmillan. If you require access to any of her writing, get in touch at n.almazidi@lse.ac.uk
Almazidi is also an Editor at the Engenderings blog and an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Education
PhD, Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science 2025
MSc Gender, London School of Economics and Political Science 2017
B.A. (Hons) International Relations and Political Science, University of Birmingham 2016
Foundation Certificate in Social Sciences, University of Birmingham 2013
Professional and Research Experience
London School of Economics and Political Science
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Gender Studies 2023 – 2024
London School of Economics and Political Science
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Gender Studies 2022 – 2023
Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science
Research Associate 2019 – 2020
Engenderings Blog
Editor 2019 – present
Qualifications and Awards
LSE Class Teacher Award 2024
LSE Class Teacher Award 2023
Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy 2023
LSE PhD Studentship 2019
Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Master’s Scholarship 2016
Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Undergraduate Scholarship 2012