Umair Munir Hashmi

Biographic Data

ID2783199
NAMEUmair Munir Hashmi
GIVEN NAMESUmair Munir
FAMILY NAMEHashmi
SIGNATUREHASHMI U M
AFFILIATIONSSultan Zainal Abidin University
ORCID0000-0002-1399-1064
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • A Discourse Analysis of Syrian Refugee Learners' Reflective Accounts of Returning to Syria From Jordan

    Open AccessRadzuwan Ab Rashid, Omar Ali Al‐smadi et al.ARTICLEInternational Migration2025Cited by: 2References: 5

    This paper is part of a larger study investigating the educational experiences of Syrian refugees in Jordan. It explores the reflective accounts of 129 Syrian refugee university learners in Jordan, collected during the third week following the fall of Bashar al‐Assad, a period marked by significant political transition and the voluntary return of nearly 60 000 Syrians. Using a discursive analytical approach, the research investigates how language…

  • Framing empirical discourse on mental health among refugees in Malaysia

    Radzuwan Ab Rashid, Umair Munir Hashmi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025Cited by: 1References: 1

    Purpose This paper aims to examine the key gaps, limitations and characteristics of the existing empirical discourse on refugees’ mental health in the Malaysian context and provides insights into their prevalent mental health conditions. Design/methodology/approach Adhering to the PRISMA framework for selecting studies, this desk research used a comprehensive search strategy in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Detailed screening and analy…

  • Transgender Identities and Online Hate In Post-Assad Syria: A Critical Discourse Analysis

    Radzuwan Ab Rashid, Raed Al-Ramahi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Homosexuality2025References: 63

    This study examines how transgender identities are discursively formed in post-Assad Syria by conducting a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of 550 purposively selected Facebook comments that respond to a viral video showing the assault of a transgender individual by the Syrian army. The findings show that transgender individuals are predominantly depicted as moral deviants, political threats, and religious transgressors, with their exclusion rat…

  • Intercultural communication, faith and impression management: Former Muslims’ engagement with social media

    Umair Munir Hashmi, Sami Saad Alghamdi et al.ARTICLELanguage and Intercultural…2024Cited by: 2References: 4

  • We are clueless: The voices of jordanian teachers untrained in conflict-sensitive pedagogy

    Open AccessRadzuwan Ab Rashid, Hanan Madanat et al.ARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education2024References: 1

  • Muslim preachers’ pandemics related discourses within social media: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis

    Open AccessWafya Hamouda, Umair Munir Hashmi et al.ARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2023

    Pandemics have been extensively represented in different discourse genres including journalistic discourse, media discourse, medical discourse, social media discourse, and academic discourse. This study explores the representation of COVID-19, Swine flu, and Monkey pox in the Arab Muslim preachers’ discourses on Twitter and Facebook. The Muslim preachers’ discourses remain one of the influential discourses that informs the ideology of its believe…

  • Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on Covid-19

    Open AccessUmair Munir Hashmi, Sultan Saleh Ahmed Almekhlafy et al.ARTICLEDiscourse & Society2023Cited by: 2References: 1

    This study attempts to generate new insights into the wide spread online and offline conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19. Twofold analytical lens consisted of narrative interrelations framework and content analysis showed how the linguistic resources and conversational such as popular socio-religious discourses, hypothetical narratives, personal narratives, personal mental archives, and interpolated arguments are integrated in the interpretation…

  • Former Muslims’ Socio-Religious Discourse on Social Media: A Speech Acts Analysis

    Open AccessUmair Munir Hashmi, Muhammad Shahzad et al.ARTICLE3L The Southeast Asian Journal of…2022

    This study aims to provide insights into the speech acts in socio-religious discourse constructed by former Malaysian Muslims on social media. This study employs a blended analytical lens consisting of Searle’s (1999) taxonomy of speech acts and van Dijk’s (1992) perspective of micro and macro speech acts. The analysis reveals that all five conventional speech act categories are represented in the discourse. But these categories do not provide in…

  • Discursive construction of anti-hijab discourse on Facebook and Twitter: The case of Malaysian former-Muslim women

    Umair Munir Hashmi, Radzuwan Ab Rashid et al.ARTICLEFeminist Media Studies2022Cited by: 4References: 7

    This study sheds light on how Malaysian former Muslims construct their anti-hijab discourse in the context of Facebook and Twitter interactions and how a dichotomous meaning is assigned to the hijab. The five participants were identified using the snowball technique, starting from a well-known Malaysian former Muslim. Data was generated by observing the participants’ postings over nine months, from April to December 2019. Three hundred ten postin…

  • The representation of Islam within social media: A systematic review

    Umair Munir Hashmi, Radzuwan Ab Rashid et al.ARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2021