Dr. Yasmeen Daifallah is an Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), specializing in Arab and Islamic political thought, postcolonial theory, and Middle East politics. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and has previously taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Southern California.Her research interests include critical and postcolonial theory, comparative political theory, and modern Arab political thought. Dr. Daifallah’s work explores how cultural traditions and intellectual trends shape individuals’ perspectives on collective life and decision-making.Dr. Daifallah has made significant contributions to the academic field, with notable publications such as The Politics of Decolonial Interpretation: Tradition and Method in Contemporary Arab Thought, published in the American Political Science Review in 2019, and Turath as Critique: Hassan Hanafi on the Modern Arab Subject, featured in the 2018 book Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present.