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Dr Anne Aly

2008 PhD- Edith Cowan University

1996 Master of Education- Edith Cowan University

1994- Post Graduate Diploma (Language Studies)- Edith Cowan University

1990- Bachelor of Arts- The American University in Cairo

 

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    • Role:
    • ECR Fellow
    • Department:
    • School of Social Sci & Asian Languages
    • Location:
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266

Dr Anne Aly is an Early Career Research Fellow at Curtin University. She has a professional background in policy having worked as a Senior Policy Officer and Manager within the Western Australian Government.

Anne's research interests are in the areas of terrorism studies and counter terrorism with a focus on the public and policy responses to terrorism. Her PhD explored the mediated fear of terrorism among Muslim communities and the broader community in Australia. 

Anne has published widely on diverse issues including Muslim identity, Muslim media activism, terrorism and the internet, the terrorism discourse and counter terrorism responses. She has presented at national and international conferences and workshops on terrorism and counter terrorism and Australian Arab relations. She is the author of Terrorism and Global Security: Historical and Contemporary Approaches (Palgrave Macmillan).

 

Research Interests

Terrorism studies; radicalisation studies; counter terrorism; Middle East and Australian Arab relations.

Research Projects

Social Resistance to Terrorism: the Bali Peace Park and Citizen Driven Cultures of Peace

Popular Radicalisation in Muslim States in Political Transition

 

Teaching - Postgraduate

Master of International Relations

Memberships

Council for Australian Arab Relations- Board Member (appointed 2009 by the Minister for Foreign Affairs)

Australian Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce- Management Committee (appointed 2011)

Western Australian Ambassador for the Bali Peace Park (appointed 2011)

 

Awards

2008 Edith Cowan University Dean's Award for Best New Researcher

2009 Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers Publications Award

2011 Inducted into the Western Australian Women's Hall of Fame

2011 Minister of Citizenship and Multicultural Interests Multicultural Community Services Award- Individual Category

Publications

Books (Authored, Research)

  • Aly, A. 2011. Terrorism and Global Security: Historical and contemporary perspectives.. Melbourne: Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Green, L, and Aly, A. 2011. How Australian Muslims Construct Western Fear of the Muslim Other. In Negotiating Identities: Constructed Selves and Others, eds Helen Vella Bonavita, 65-90. The Netherlands: Rodopi B.V..
  • Aly, A. 2010. Fear, Victimisation and Identity: The Community Victimisation Perspective and Social Inclusion of Australian Muslims. In Muslims in Australia: The Dynamics of Exclusion and Inclusion, eds Samina Yasmeen, 79-96. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
  • Aly, A. 2009. Media hegemony, activism and identity: Muslim women re-presenting Muslim women. In Beyond the Hijab Debates: New Conversations on Gender, Race and Religion, 18-31. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Aly, A. 2009. Lessons from the Past: The Historical Roots of Militant Islamic Ideology and its Influence on Contemporary Jihadist Movements. In Doomed to Repeat? Terrorism and the Lessons of History, eds Sean Brawley, 115-133. Washington: New Academia Publishing.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

  • Aly, A. 2010. Shifting Positions to the Media Discourse on Terrorism: Critical points in Audience Members’ Meaning-Making Experiences. Media International Australia 134: 31-46.
  • Aly, A, and Green, L. 2010. Fear, Anxiety and the State of Terror. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 33(3): 268-281.
  • Aly, A. 2009. The Terrorists’ Audience: A Model of Internet Radicalisation. Journal of Australian Professional Intelligence Officers 171: 3-19.
  • Aly, A, and Green, L. 2008. 'Moderate Islam’: Defining the Good Citizen. M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture 11(1).
  • Green, L, and Aly, A. 2008. Less than Equal: Secularism, Religious Pluralism and Privilege. M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture 11(2).
  • Aly, A, and Balnaves, M. 2007. Media, 9/11, and fear: a national survey of Australian community responses to images of terror. Australian Journal of Communication 343(3): 101-112.
  • Aly, A. 2007. Australian Muslim Responses to the Discourse on Terrorism in the Australian Popular Media. Australian Journal of Social Issues 42(1): 27-40.
  • Aly, A, and Balnaves, M. 2007. "They want us to be Afraid”: Developing a Metric for the Fear of Terrorism. International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations 66(6): 113-122.
  • Aly, A, and Walker, D. 2007. Veiled Threats: Recurrent Cultural Anxieties in Australia. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 27(2): 203-215.
  • Aly, A, and Balnaves, M. 2005. The Atmosfear of Terror: Affective Modulation and the War on Terror. M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture 8(6).

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

  • Aly, A. 2010. The Internet as Ideological Battleground. 1st Australian Counter Terrorism Conference, 30/11/2010. Perth, Western Australia: Security Research Centre, Edith Cowan University.