About

I am a historian with a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), researching migration, youth culture and Muslim life in contemporary Europe.

My work draws on research methods that integrate oral history and digital ethnography to document lived experiences, situate them within broader historical contexts and expand how contemporary Muslim life is understood, with particular attention to political-legal frameworks and processes of urban marginalisation.

  • Oral History

    This section brings together interviews drawn from personal projects and doctoral fieldwork conducted in Paris and Marseille, particularly within quartiers prioritaires and urban banlieues spaces. These oral histories foreground lived experiences and emotional worlds that are often absent from official narratives, especially within contexts shaped by long-standing patterns of socio-economic inequality and exclusion.

  • The Muslim Hip-Hop Archives

    The Muslim Hip-Hop Archives brings together significant works by Muslim hip-hop artists from around the world. Conceived as the first archive of its kind, this section treats hip-hop as a cultural and historical archive in its own right – one that preserves memory, articulates political critique and documents everyday life for young Muslims. It reflects my broader commitment to recognising cultural production as a legitimate and vital historical source.

  • Photography

    Photography complements my ethnographic research by bringing attention to people, space and everyday life. The images collected here are not tied to a single project or community, but reflect a broader anthropological interest in visual methods as modes of observation and documenation. Used alongside oral history, photography functions as a visual research practice that supports historical inquiry.

Projects Featured on This Site

This website brings together oral history, photography, film and sound as part of an ongoing effort to make sense of Muslim life, youth culture and migration in contemporary Europe. With the aim of making scholarly work more accessible beyond academic spaces, it seeks to open space for dialogue and reflection, offering deeper and more human understandings of life across different social worlds.

Contact

Looking to discuss a project? Please e-mail: underexposed.contact@gmail.com