Nadia Al-Dayel
MA, PhD
Founder
Nadia Al-Dayel’s expertise lies in analyzing the tactics of captivity, slavery, and human trafficking by terrorist organizations and other criminal actors. She develops and supervises new areas of research on terrorism, migration, conflict, and global security.
She has in-depth experience investigating how ISIS strategically and financially benefited from the establishment and regulation of slavery across its occupied territories. She has also surveyed how human trafficking and exploitation occur at migrant detention centers in Libya, highlighting policy implications for multilateral border security agreements and humanitarian concerns.
Al-Dayel is a Research Scholar for the Global Association of Human Trafficking Scholars (GAHTS). Al-Dayel has been associated with the Centre for Conflict, Security and Terrorism at the University of Nottingham. She was also a Research Associate for the Rights Lab, tracking governmental responses to modern slavery within (non)conflict areas. She is a peer review editor and her work is aimed at security practitioners and academics. Her research experience comes from living and working in the United States, the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
Nadia Al-Dayel, Aaron Anfinson and Graeme Anfinson
Captivity, Migration, and Power in Libya
Journal of Human Trafficking (2021)
Nadia Al-Dayel, Andrew Mumford and Kevin Bales
the establishment and regulation of slavery
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (2020)
Aaron Anfinson and Nadia Al-Dayel
Landmines and Improvised Explosive Devices: the lingering terror of the Islamic State
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (2020)
Megan Conroy and Nadia Al-Dayel
Identity Construction Through Discourse: A Case Study of ISIS’s No Respite Video
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (2020)
Nadia Al-Dayel
Islamic State's Narratives of Political Awareness
Terrorism and Political Violence (2019)
Nadia Al-Dayel
Sexual Suppression and Political Agency:
Evoking a woman's support for the Islamic State
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (2018)
Nadia Al-Dayel and Aaron Anfinson
the Islamic State's reflexive projection of statehood
Critical Studies on Terrorism (2018, 11(1))
Essays and Invited Commentary
Aaron Anfinson and Nadia Al-Dayel
The threat of the Islamic State's extensive use of improvised explosives
International Centre for Counter-Terrorism--the Hague
Nadia Al-Dayel and Andrew Mumford
International Centre for Counter-Terrorism--the Hague
Recent Conferences and
Invited Speaking Engagements
Global Rights Defenders Podcast
Episode 9, July 30, 2022
International Studies Association
Panel on Migration and Security, April 7, 2021
ACAMS Virtual MENA
December 8-10, 2020
International Studies Association (CANCELLED due to COVID-19)
Honolulu, Hawaii, March 26, 2020
Society for Terrorism Research International Conference
Oslo, Norway, June 20, 2019
Society for Terrorism Research International Conference
Liverpool, United Kingdom, Sept 6, 2018
Center for Conflict, Security and Terrorism
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, Oct 10, 2018
University of Nottingham Politics and International Relations Summer Conference
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, June 21, 2018
British International Studies Association Conference
Bath, United Kingdom, June 13, 2018
Political Studies Association
Cardiff, United Kingdom, March 28, 2018
University of Nottingham
Politics Professional Development Course
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, Dec 6, 2017
Terrorism and Social Media Conference (TASMconf)
University of Swansea, United Kingdom, April 27, 2017