Ana Ballesteros Peiró is a Ph.D. candidate in
the Arab and Islamic studies
department at Universidad Autónoma
de Madrid and member of a research
team on electoral processes in Arab
and Islamic countries. She has also
been a research scholar at the South
Asian Division of International
Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru
University (New Delhi, India), where
she studied terrorism, communalism,
and sectarianism among Muslims in
Pakistan. Her work focuses on sects
in Islam and South Asia.
(ballesterosp@yahoo.com)
