J. Nizar (Jehan) MA

Promovendus - Islam, Politiek en Samenleving

J. Nizar (Jehan) MA
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Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN

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Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN

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Jehan Nizar is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Islam Studies at The Research Institute for Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies. Her project is an ethnographic study that focuses on the act of food-making within the Mappila Muslim community who inhabit, what is referred to as, the Malabar region of the south Indian state of Kerala. She seeks to analyse these foodways as a form of culinary placemaking that have helped forge a transnational identity for the community.

In this context, she will examine how embodied food practice among this community continues to be suggestive of religious and sociocultural practices and observances that have been influenced by historical encounters with Islam and ancient Indian Ocean trade interactions, resulting in a distinct peninsular Indian Muslim identity.

Jehan has a background in long-form food journalism and her body of work most often explores food as a point of convergence for history, anthropology, culture, religion and gender. Her bylines have appeared in international publications including PEN America, Good Food Jobs, Whetstone Magazine, Vogue India, The Wire, The Wire Science, Firstpost and Gulf News.

From 2019 to 2024, Jehan was a full-time member of faculty at one of Asia’s leading journalism schools, The Asian College of Journalism, where she taught postgraduate students a course in Feature Writing, Creative Non-Fiction and Storytelling, and curated a new elective called The Writer’s Voice. She holds a BA in English Literature and an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University in the UK.

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