Asad Dandia

Asad Dandia

Asad Dandia is a Brooklyn-born writer, organizer, and graduate student who just wrapped up his time at MEI's ISMA program. His interests include modern Islamic thought, Sufism, and Islamic intellectual history, and his work seeks to bring them into conversation with critical theory, radical/labor politics, and post/decolonial thought. He has served as a Teaching Assistant (TA) for courses in Islamic law and spirituality at NYU, is co-host of the New Books in Middle East Studies podcast at the New Books Network, and was a 2020 Fellow at the LA Review of Books Publishing Workshop. He holds a BSW from New York University and draws from his experience both as an academic and a community organizer to connect theory with praxis on a range of subjects. His MA Thesis at Columbia is entitled, “Rethinking Islamic Studies: Muhammad Iqbal’s Philosophy as Decolonial Critique.”