Mohamed Abdou

Mohamed Abdou is a Canadian-Egyptian political scientist, academic, author and activist, also known as Mohamed Jean Veneuse, whose research centers on decolonial theory, Islamic studies, anarchism and indigenous resistance, examining the relationship between Islam and anarchism with attention to indigenous, Black and Palestinian liberation. He has taught at Queens University, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the American University in Cairo, Cornell University and Columbia University, and wrote Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances (2022), arguing for a spiritually rooted, anti-authoritarian, decolonial interpretation of Islam.