Dalia N. Obiedat
Affiliations
  • Department for Religious Studies
  • Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies
  • University of Bonn
  • IMPULSE – House for Intellectual Innovation and Creativity
Research topics
  • Digital Religion
  • Nonreligion and Atheism
  • Ex-Muslim Studies
  • Digital Ethnography
  • Arab and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Online Communities
  • Artificial Intelligence and Religion
  • Identity, Recognition and Belonging
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Science Communication
Dalia N. Obiedat is a PhD Candidate and Research Associate at the Department for Religious Studies, Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn and a Research Associate for Scientific Coordination and Science Communication at IMPULSE – House for Intellectual Innovation and Creativity, University of Bonn. Her research examines digital religion, nonreligion, and the online lives of Arab atheists and ex-Muslims. Using digital ethnography, she investigates how online communities and AI-mediated interactions shape identity, recognition, belonging, intimacy, and meaning, with particular attention to experiences of religious change, gender, and sexuality.
Selected publications

Obiedat, D. (2026). Lost Cities and Forced Digital Migration: The Online Reclamation of Identity Among Arab Atheists and Ex-Muslims. In J. D. Eller (Ed.), Anything but Orthodox: Anthropological Observations of Islam in the 21st Century.Routledge.  

Obiedat, D. (2019, February 14). Cyber Love. Al-Sawsanah. https://www.assawsanah.com/portal/pages.php?newsid=400240  

Obiedat, D. (2019, January 26). The Myth: Liberating It or Being Liberated From. Al-Sawsanah. https://www.assawsanah.com/article/397237  

Obiedat, D. (2019, January 23). The Pheromones of Smartphones and Nomophobia. Al-Sawsanah. https://www.assawsanah.com/portal/pages.php?newsid=396810  

Obiedat, D. (2021, February 10). BUPG and Nativization in Arabic. Addustour. https://www.addustour.com 

Dalia N. Obiedat
Dalia N. Obiedat

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