
Articles
Nazir, Irfan Ahmed. 2026. ‘Accomplishing Zayed’s “Ambition”: Space Exploration and National Identity in the United Arab Emirates’. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, April 3. https://doi.org/10.1111/sena.70040.
Nazir, Irfan Ahmed. 2024. ‘Kerala and the Gaza Crisis: Solidarity, Politics, and Media Responses’. Contemporary Review of the Middle East 11 (4): 466–91. https://doi.org/10.1177/23477989241289686.
Chapters
Nazir, Irfan Ahmed. 2026. ‘Kerala’s Response to the Gaza Crisis: Politics, Religion, and Media’. In Modi, 7 October, and the Gaza War, edited by P. R. Kumaraswamy and Md. Muddassir Quamar, 89–124. KW Publishers.
Nazir, Irfan Ahmed. 2025. ‘The UAE’. In COVID-19 in Middle East and North Africa: Pandemic, Impacts and Responses, edited by P. R. Kumaraswamy, Sameena Hameed and Md. Muddassir Quamar, 257–72. Bloomsbury India. http://doi.org/10.5040/9789361316951.ch-20.
Nazir, Irfan Ahmed. 2025. ‘Jordan’. In COVID-19 in Middle East and North Africa: Pandemic, Impacts and Responses, edited by P. R. Kumaraswamy, Sameena Hameed and Md. Muddassir Quamar, 117–31. Bloomsbury India. http://doi.org/10.5040/9789361316951.ch-8.
Nazir, Irfan Ahmed. 2024. ‘India’s Rashtradoots: Engagement with the Diaspora’. In Transformation of India’s Foreign Policy: Shaping the Global Order as a Responsible Power, edited by Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, 150–83. KW Publishers/Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003539063-7.
Policy Papers
Nazir, Irfan Ahmed. 2024. Teaching National Identity to Non-Nationals: Indian Curriculum Schools in the UAE. Policy Paper No. 73. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research. https://doi.org/10.18502/aqf.0216.
Essays
Nazir, Irfan Ahmed. 2022. ‘COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in the GCC Countries: End of the Gulf Dream?’ In COVID-19 in the MENA: Two Years On, edited by Marc Lynch, 75–79. POMEPS Studies 47. Project on Middle East Political Science. https://pomeps.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/POMEPS_Studies_47.pdf.
Book Reviews
Nazir, Irfan Ahmed. 2024. ‘Joseph A. Kéchichian and Fahad L. Alsharif, Sa’udi Policies Towards Migrants and Refugees: A Sacred Duty (Brighton, United Kingdom: Sussex Academic Press and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, 2022, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-78976-144-3, Price: £60.00, 362pp)’. Contemporary Review of the Middle East 11 (1): 116–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/23477989231223649.
Nazir, Irfan Ahmed. 2022. ‘Gerasimos Tsourapas (2021). Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Power, Mobility, and the State. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press. Price: £85.00. 192 pp., ISBN: 978-1-5261-3209-3 (Hardback)’. Contemporary Review of the Middle East 9 (4): 464–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/23477989221116446.
Other Publications
Nazir, Irfan Ahmed. 2018. ‘Understanding Children’s Right to Leisure, Play and Culture in Thrissur Municipal Corporation’. Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 5 (7): 62–70. Special Issue. https://www.shanlaxjournals.in/wp-content/uploads/sijash_apr2018_christ_university.pdf.