Samer Alnasir
UNED (visiting June 2023-August 2023)
PhD in Ethics and Political Philosophy (2024), National University of Distance Education (UNED), Spain. Thesis: "The Eastern-Western Spectacle: Patterns and Deconstruction" (qualified as Excellent).
Contact Information:
Email: samer@alnasir.org
Website: alnasir.org
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Academia:
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- Northern-Southern Dichotomy and the dilemma of modernity as a (post)structural resilience, peace dynamics, identity and belonging under massive ethical values, elites’ formation, politics of memory, and intergroup cohesion.
- Constitutional religious and ethnic confluences, through the massive transnationalisation of the idea of laïcité beyond the European context.
- Aesthetics in the public sphere as an institutional kinesthetic instrument of public administrations, and its instrumentalization as a material act of public power.
- PhD in Ethics and Political Philosophy, National University of Distance Education (UNED), Spain (2024)
- LLM in Protocol, National University of Distance Education (UNED), Spain (2022)
- LLM in Public Law, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain (2019)
- DEA in Administrative Law (Doctoral Studies), University San Pablo CEU, Madrid, Spain (2005)
- LLM in Legal Theory (coursework completed), University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium (2003)
- LLM in Public Law, University of Rouen, France (year not specified)
- Bachelor's Degree in Law, University of Baghdad, Iraq (1997)
- Diploma in French Philology and Literature, University of Baghdad, Iraq (1996)
- Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, National University of Distance Education (UNED), Spain (ongoing)
Language Skills:
- Spanish: Native proficiency
- Arabic: Native proficiency
- French: C1 (certified DELF B2 nº 090212024646)
- English: C1 working proficiency
- Polish: B1 proficiency (certified)
- Turkish: B1 proficiency (certified)
- Russian: A2 proficiency (certified)
- DAEFLE Examiner Certification in French nº 42665.
- C1 Examiner Level in Spanish for Foreigners (certified)
Books (Forthcoming)
Alnasir, S. (2026). Tyrannic Modernity, Schizophrenia Vassalage: The Global Southern Ready-Made State. Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity series. Routledge.
Books
Alnasir, S. (2018). Tragedy of Translation and Orientalism. Istanbul: Aswat Books.
Alnasir, S. (2004). Towards a Rule of Law State in Iraq. Madrid: Euro-Iraqi Network for Public Law.
Book Chapters
Alnasir, S. (2026). Historical Myths and Modern Divides: The Far-Right's Rise as a Normative Nostalgic Identity in Spain and Greece. In A. S. Isaloo & E. Gusciute (Eds.), Modern Racism & the Rise of the Far-Right. Routledge.
Alnasir, S. (2025). Diaphanous Universities and Artisanal Knowledge: Colonial Servility and the Crypto-Educational Illusion. In Dialogues for a university project with an intercultural ethnic focus, edited by Aristedes Obando, II. Iberoamerican Association for Practical Philosophy.
Alnasir, S. (2006). Critic of the political transition agreement. In Derecho constitucional para el siglo XXI: Actas del VIII Congreso Iberoamericano de Derecho Constitucional (Vol. I, pp. 597–606). Thomson Reuters Aranzadi.
Alnasir, S. (2005). Constitutional perspectives for Iraq: From the past towards the future. In M. C. Bassiouni (Ed.), Iraqi Constitutional Studies (pp. 469–518). The International Institute of Human Rights, DePaul University College of Law.
Alnasir, S. (2005). Toward a constitutional future. In M. C. Bassiouni (Ed.), Iraqi Constitutional Studies (pp. 113–170). The International Institute of Human Rights, DePaul University College of Law.
Alnasir, S. (2004). The European legal-cultural sense and the future of the institutional mission to Iraq. In Actas del III Congreso de Católicos y Vida Pública (Vol. I, pp. 441–444). CEU Ediciones.
Alnasir, S. (2003). Tentation constitutionnelle de l'Irak. In J. M. Crouzatier (Ed.), Justice Constitutionnelle en Asie (pp. 156–186). Presses de l'Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Alnasir, S. (2025). From illegitimacy to entrenchment: The Impostor Court and Iraq's constitutional subversive epistemicide. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 21(3), 1–27.
Alnasir, S. (2025). The Union Court of Iraq. Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law. Oxford University Press.
Alnasir, S. (2023). Protocolo. EUNOMÍA. Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad, 24, 300–318.
Alnasir, S. (2022). Laicism: Idolatry trap or constitutional nihilism. International Journal of Political Thought, 16, 333–356.
Alnasir, S. (2021). Belief and belonging: The labyrinth of post-Ottoman societies. Passagens: International Review of Political History and Legal Culture, 13(3), 389–418.
Alnasir, S. (2021). An anthropological introspection into identitarian, social, religious and coloniality social practices in Egypt, Iraq and Syria. Anales de Antropología, 55(2), 195–209.
Alnasir, S. (2021). Calamities of the (post)colonial law and its orientalism: Religious affiliation and individual liberty in Egypt, Iraq and Tunisia. Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado, 158, 485–519.
Alnasir, S. (2021). The (Other) in postcolonial narratives – Literary fallacy and harmful memory: An empirical analysis. Advocatus, 37, 189–219.
Alnasir, S. (2019). Defeats and defects of Spanish cyberdiplomacy in the Arab world. Public Diplomacy Magazine, 22, 61–63.
Alnasir, S. (2005). Towards a new dogma of legal neopositivism. Hesperia, Culturas del Mediterráneo, 3, 251–262.
Alnasir, S. (2005). The Iraqi constitutional future, a pending point in the political transition. Hesperia, Culturas del Mediterráneo, 1, 31–42.
Academic Blog Posts
Alnasir, S. (2025). “From Syrian Revolution to Constitutional Ambiguity.” Verfassungsblog. doi:10.59704/9e398c480a4bf6ac.
Alnasir, S. (2025, March 20). From revolution to constitution-making: The Syrian people's struggle and legal ambiguity in the new constitutional declaration. IACL Blog.
Alnasir, S. (2025, May 13). Entre la revolución y el vacío constitucional: Siria y la fragilidad de su proceso constituyente. CEPC Blog.
Alnasir, S. (2022, July 7). Iraq urgently needs a real constitution. IACL Blog.
Alnasir, S. (2021, April 8). Deciphering the dilemma between France and Turkey. Global-e Journal.
Book Reviews
Alnasir, S. (2004). [Review of the book El derecho a no ser molestado: Información y vida privada, by M. Carrillo]. Iurieuorab, 4.