Moign Khawaja

Moign Khawaja is a lecturer and researcher at the School of Law and Government, DCU. He successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Acting Like a State: Visual Analysis of IS's (Staged) Performances of Modern Stateness' in September 2022. Moign teaches modules related to security studies and international relations such as conflict, peace, security, intelligence, foreign policy, diplomacy, and migration to undergrads and postgrads. He has a background in international relations, world conflicts and journalism and has been a keen observer of Middle Eastern affairs since the last two decades. He has worked as a multimedia journalist in the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman.

Publications:

Khawaja, M., and Kaunert, C. (2025). Islamic State, Media, and Propaganda - Performances of the 'Visual Caliphate'. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Conway, M., Khawaja, M., Lakhani, S. and Reffin, J., 2020. A Snapshot of the Syrian Jihadi Online Ecology: Differential Disruption, Community Strength, and Preferred Other Platforms. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, pp.1-17.

Conway, M., Khawaja, M., Lakhani, S., Reffin, J., Robertson, A. and Weir, D., 2018. Disrupting Daesh: Measuring Takedown of Online Terrorist Material and its Impacts. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, pp.1-20.

Maura Conway, Moign Khawaja, Suraj Lakhani, Jeremy Reffin, Andrew Robertson, and David Weir (2017). "Disrupting Daesh: Measuring Takedown of Online Terrorist Material and its Impacts." VOX-Pol: 1-45.