Nahid Afrose Kabir is author of Muslims in Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and Cultural History (London: Routledge 2005). She is a research fellow at the Centre for Applied Social Marketing Research, School of Social Marketing, Tourism and Leisure at the Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia. At the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, she is involved in Islam in the West program. Her research interests include Australian/British/American-Muslim immigration and cultural history, media and society, youth identity, women in Islam, Islam and politics, and social marketing, and health promotion.

Nahid Kabir was born in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) and studied History (BA Hons and MA) in the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She earned an MA in Historical Studies and her PhD in History from the University of Queensland, Australia. Nahid Kabir has spent many years in Pakistan (then West Pakistan), the United States, the Middle East, and Australia. This broad cultural and international exposure is assisting her in her research. Her publications include journal articles and book chapters. Nahid Kabir has presented conference papers both nationally and internationally.