Mohd Irwan Syazli Saidin

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Researcher at Durham University

This article reviews the events of 2010-2011 Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions with specific attention to the background of uprisings, timeline of events and causes of the revolutions. The focus of this study is to look into the factors that ignited the revolutions, both in Tunisia and Egypt. By examining secondary sources mainly through published...

This article reviews the two major revolutionary events occurred in the Muslim world- the 1979 Iran’s Revolution and the 2011 Arab Uprisings. In particular, it highlights the snapshots of events’ background and examines the factors that ignited the mass uprisings, both in Iran in 1979 and selected countries in the Middle East and North Africa in 20...

The challenge arises from Malaysia’s struggle to foster peaceful connections among its diverse ethnic groups, mainly due to the prevalence of politics centered around religious and ethnic identities. To examine how racialised political sentiments subtly influence power dynamics, this study analyses four digital excerpts using a critical discursive...

This article critically reviews the issues of the failure of democratic and political transition in Egypt and Libya in the post-Arab Spring Revolution. Several factors have been identified as the main contributors to the failed democratic process. The first one is the clash of ideology and political approach, as well as the adaptation of different...

Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy critically explores the involvement of Muslim scholars, or the ulama, in the 2011 Arab Revolutions and their work navigating the tensions between democracy and autocracy. Written in nine chapters, the book examines the various positions the ulama took during the Arab Spring,...

Artikel ini membahaskan kemunculan golongan Islamis bermula daripada fenomena kebangkitan Islam sehingga tercetusnya gelombang Reformasi 1998 yang membawa kepada pembentukan Parti Keadilan Nasional (KeADILan) pada tahun 1999. Kemunculan golongan Islamis di Malaysia lahir daripada Gerakan Islam seperti ABIM dan JIM yang mempunyai ciri-ciri pemikiran...

This empirical study examines the reactions of 114 political science graduates in Malaysia, through a questionnaire-based survey on the power transition crisis that took place February 23rd to 1 March 2020. Throughout these “seven long days”, there was little opportunity given to university students, who were concerned with the Malaysian political...

The ongoing Syrian conflict has resulted in millions of refugees fleeing the country since 2011. In 2015, the Malaysian government pledged to host 3000 Syrian refugees to continue their lives safely in Malaysia before returning to Syria when the war ends. However, Malaysia has not ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol, which ser...

Malaysia is no exception when it comes to the Daesh threat. Several vulnerable Muslim populations have been previously targeted by Daesh via specific modus operandi to fulfil the terrorism agenda. Based on a persistent concern about Daesh-related issues and their consequences, this article critically explores the role of the security agency, the Co...

Seventy-three years, seven million people in exile; it has been this long since the Palestinian diaspora set foot. By expanding the Social Death theory to include “territory bounded culture,” this paper argues that Israeli regime is inflicting an (attempted) social death upon Palestinian refugees by dispossessing them of their lands and denying the...

Kemunculan Kaum Muda di Tanah Melayu sekitar tahun 1900-an dilihat berjaya mengisi ruang vakum intelektual dalam memberi kesedaran kepada masyarakat Melayu. Keadaan masyarakat Melayu yang dijajah oleh British dilihat berada dalam situasi mundur bukan sahaja dari segi pendidikan dan ekonomi malah juga dari sudut kefahaman agama, iaitu terperangkap d...

This paper explores the origins of Orientalism and how it came into existence in the discourse of post-colonial studies. This paper elaborates on the three meanings of Orientalism based on Palestinian American scholar Edward Said to illustrate that Orientalism is not solely a field of study about the Eastern world, rather critiques on the biasness...

The post-US invasion of Iraq in 2003 has witnessed a dramatic change in the Iraqi political landscape and became the main highlights of geopolitical and security issues in the Middle East. Critics of the war maintained that there were other motives behind the decision of the US government to invade Iraq. This article argues that the US administrati...

This article examines the religious-political ideology of the Houthi movement in Yemen. In particular, it explores the political objectives and historical roots of the Houthis' rebellion that was initiated in 2004 and continued into 2009 through six rounds of wars, which were called Sa'dah wars. The Houthis implemented a military coup in 2014 again...

The New Political Islam: Human Rights, Democracy and Justice merupakan karya ilmiah yang ditulis oleh Emmanuel Karagiannis pada tahun 2018. Beliau merupakan seorang pensyarah kanan dalam bidang politik Islam, radikalisasi dan terrorisme di Jabatan Pengajian Pertahanan, King’s College London, United Kingdom. Buku ini mengandungi tiga bahagian utama...

This article examines the religious-political ideology of the Houthi movement in Yemen. In particular, it explores the political objectives and historical roots of the Houthis’ rebellion that was initiated in 2004 and continued into 2009 through six rounds of wars, which were called Sa’dah wars. The Houthis implemented a military coup in 2014 again...

This article critically reviews the idea of economic diversification of green social capital in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) through renewable and sustainable energy projects that strive to tackle climate change and alleviate the negative consequences of human interaction in the ecological system. The western dominance and monopolisation...

The dynamics of Malaysian politics was evident prior to every election seasons. The complexity of Malaysians' background has created extreme political competition that is centered around racial lines, identity, ethnicity and religious groups. During GE-12 to GE-14, ethnocentrism perspectives dramatically increased with every local and national isue...

Abstrak Artikel ini meneliti implikasi Brexit dan Referendum Keahlian Kesatuan Eropah (EU) 2016 terhadap lanskap politik United Kingdom. Perbincangan kajian meliputi sejarah perkembangan isu Brexit, latar belakang Referendum 2016 serta analisis keputusan pilihan pengundi dan beberapa isu politik post-truth yang menjadi perdebatan pasca referendum....

The discourse on democratization features prominently in the work of Samuel P. Huntington (1927-2008) entitled ‘The Third Wave’ which was published in 1991. Huntington was one of the most influential political scientists and previously held the position of university professor at the prestigious Harvard Kennedy School in the US. He authored many ac...

Over the last decade, the Arab Spring phenomenon in the Middle East and North Africa has brought significant transformation towards Tunisia's political landscape. During the 14 days of street protest, Tunisian women have played critical roles in assisting their male counterparts in securing the ultimate goal of the revolution-regime change. This ar...

This article analyses the effectiveness of existing mechanisms in ASEAN in addressing the South China Sea dispute with China. It highlights the ASEAN’s position on the issues as well as examines China’s approaches in asserting sovereignty over the disputed waters and further the responses of other claimant states towards China’s actions. This artic...

Tumpuan mengenai reaksi anak muda dalam Langkah Sheraton diberikan oleh Mohd Irwan Syazli Saidin menerusi artikel Bab 10 bertajuk “Dari Petaling Jaya Ke Putrajaya: ‘ Langkah Sheraton’ dan Reaksi Mahasiswa Sains Politik Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia”. Kajian empirikal ini mendapati majoriti dari 114 responden (60.6 peratus) menolak proses pertukara...

This article discusses separatism and terrorism in Southeast Asia by referring to the cases of Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in Indonesia, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Southern Philippine and Patani United Liberation Front (PULO) in Southern Thai. The focus of this research is to examine the extent to which GAM, MILF and PULO related to terro...

In the latest general elections held in May 2018, PAS and the newly formed Islamist party, the AMANAH won the plurality of votes and managed to secure a number of legislative seats in the parliament and states. With the fall of BN and Najib Razak’s administration, as well as the victory of Pakatan Harapan, there was relatively moderate support for...

This thesis examines the attitude of Malaysia’s Islamist movements – (1) The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS); (2) The National Trust Party (AMANAH); (3) The Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (ABIM) and (4) the Malaysian Muslim Solidarity Front (ISMA) towards the 2011 Arab Uprisings events or popularly known as the ‘Arab Spring’ in the Middle East...

The collection of chapters in Saikal and Acharya’s publication addresses inter-regional implications of the Arab Spring in relation to Asia, particularly in terms of their inspiration on opposition groups and the prospects for democratic transition in a variety of undemocratic regimes. Asia is considered as the region that is most potentially affec...

Since the establishment of the Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (ABIM) in 1970s as one of the prominent Islamic movements in Malaysia, ABIM regularly pays attention on the global issues in the Middle East, stretching from the event of 1973 Arab-Israeli War and 1979 Iranian Revolution up to the 2011 Arab Uprisings. However, negative polemics emerge...

This paper examines the attitude of Malaysian youth towards the ‘Arab Spring’ events in the Middle East and North Africa. In particular, it explores the knowledge and perceptions of a selected young generation in Malaysia towards the ‘Arab Spring’ as well as considering how the events influence their attitudes towards regime change, democracy and p...

Arab-Israeli Six-Day War 1967 through the Perspective of the Realism Theory Realism approach has dominated the studies of world politics and international relations since the last of the World War II and until the start of the Cold War era. The focus of this study is to look into the factors that ignited the war other than identifying the policies...

The ArabTransitions project, headed by the University of Aberdeen, organised a one-day conference in May 2016 in Edinburgh as the culmination of a three year international research project on political and social transformations in the Arab world. Funded within the FP7 program of the European Commission, the project used survey-based research to ex...

The conference gathered researchers on the Middle East / North Africa (including neighbouring Iran and Turkey) and Southeast Asia to explore why political transition in Southeast Asia has been relatively successful while transition in the Middle East / North Africa with the exception of Tunisia is proving to be messy, volatile, and bloody. Moreover...

In recent years, the world has witnessed a dramatic change in Middle Eastern political landscape with the collapse of several long-serving dictators from Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya. They were the former presidents of these countries who, in the unfolding of history, had been ousted by their own people from a massive revolution known as the Ara...