Thomas Fibiger is Associate Professor in Arab and Islamic Studies at the Department of the Study of Religion, University of Aarhus. He obtained his PhD in Anthropology from Aarhus University in 2010, with a thesis on historicity and political imagination in Bahrain. He has later worked with Shia in Kuwait, with the role of sectarianism in Bahrain and Kuwait, and currently with the Bahraini Shia diaspora in London and Denmark, within the research project Mediatized Diaspora.