Dilek Çelebi

Dr Dilek Çelebi is an Islamic historian and interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of nationalism, religion, security studies, and development in the Middle East. She holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, where she examined Iranian national security narratives and their effects on political minorities. Her research explores how religious idioms, state security frameworks, and development governance shape legitimacy, exclusion, and minority politics across Iran and the wider region. Using qualitative, discourse-informed methods, she contributes to academic and public debates and develops research with practical relevance to governance, rights, and conflict prevention.