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Firdose Moonda is a PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and is working on a doctoral project provisionally titled: Yoga, Politics and Possibilities for Social Justice. She completed her MA Traditions of Yoga and Meditation at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2019 and works as a journalist and yoga teacher trainer. Firdose is interested in research areas including the politics of the body, decolonisation and the intersection of yoga and Islam.