About the speaker: Dr Tahir Zaman is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on refugees and forced migration with particular reference to Iraq and Syria, transnationalism, diaspora contributions to conflict transformation and peace-building, sociology of religion, and faith-based humanitarianism. His book Islamic Traditions of Refuge in the Crises of Iraq and Syria was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016.