Zawawi Ibrahim was a Visiting Professor at Taylor’s University, Malaysia. His was most recently Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei. Working within the field of anthropology broadly understood, his wide-ranging research interests include youth, popular culture, storytelling and narratives, religious diversity, and multiculturalism. He is the author of The Malay Labourer (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1995), and co-editor of Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia (Springer, 2016) and Borneo Studies in History, Society and Culture (Springer, 2017). He is a member of the EU-funded research project ‘Radicalisation, Secularism, and the Governance of Religion: Bringing together European and Asian Perspectives’ (2019–2021).