Dr. Muhammad Suleiman is an Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Department of Global Studies at KFUPM Business School. He is a 2020 Fellow of the United Nations Fellowship Program for People of African Descent, an Emerging Leaders in Australia-Africa Diplomacy (ELAAD) Programme Ambassador, and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
He was a lecturer and research associate in Curtin University’s School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry between 2022 and January 2024 and Associate Lecturer and Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia between 2017 and 2021.
Muhammad’s research interests include Africa’s international relations, including Gulf-Africa relations, and security in West Africa.
PhD (International Relations), University of Western Australia, 2019.
Master of Research (Political Science), Macquarie University, Australia, 2015.
Master of Arts (International Law): University of Sydney, Australia, 2012.
Bachelor of Arts (Political Science & Geography): University of Ghana, 2017.
International Relations and African Studies
Dan Suleiman, M. (2023). The jihadists are coming! Abyssal thinking and spatial politics of un/knowing in Ghana’s terrorism discourse. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 16(4), 620-647.
Dan Suleiman, M., Isike, C., & Mickler, D. (2023). “No Colonial Baggage”: Imagining a Decolonised Australia‐Africa Relations. Australian Journal of Politics & History, 69(3), 522-541.
Malito, Debora V., & Dan Suleiman, M. (2023). “The production of a fragmented and ungoverned Libya” In D. Meier and R. Di Peri (Eds.) Mediterranean in dis/order. Space, Power and Politics, pp. 72-92, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan University Press.
Dan Suleiman, M. (2020). What makes Islamist movements different? A study of Liberia’s NPFL and Nigeria’s Boko Haram in West Africa. Terrorism and political violence, 32(1), 119-137.
