Ezgi Güner works on Contemporary Muslim Societies in a Globalised World, with research interests in race, religion, empire and global capitalism across the Middle East and Africa south of the Sahara. Ezgi received her Ph.D. in Anthropology with a minor in African Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2020. Her dissertation, The soul of the White Muslim: Race, empire and Africa in Turkey examines Turkey’s growing relations with Africa south of the Sahara by looking at the state, business and civil society. Funded by the Social Science Research Council, her doctoral research draws on a multi-sited ethnography in Turkey, Tanzania, Senegal, Gambia and Benin. At the Alwaleed Centre, Ezgi is conducting a postdoctoral research on the Turkish Muslim communities in Cape Town and how they navigate the racial terrain of post-apartheid South Africa. She is also teaching on Islam in Africa and completing her book manuscript.