Abdulla Moaswes

Abdulla Moaswes is an interdisciplinary social scientist and qualitative methodologist. His research interests revolve around global and transnational colonial and anticolonial connectivities in the Majority World. He completed his PhD at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter in 2025, where his thesis outlined and examined the interconnections between Israeli and Indian colonial rule in Palestine and Kashmir, as well as the role of these interconnections within planetary political and economic circulations. Abdulla's other interests include the politics of food and culture, the geopolitics of competing anticolonialisms, and modern Arabic and Urdu poetry. In addition to his academic work, Abdulla also writes speculative fiction. 

Abdulla’s project with Mapping Connections will focus on the role played by Pakistan in facilitating China-West Asia trade.