Najib Kailani is faculty member of Graduate School UIN SunanKalijaga Yogyakarta. He received his PhD in Southeast Asian Social Inquiry, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia and was visiting research Fellow at ISEAS-YusofIshak Institute, Singapore (2016). His research interests include Islam and pop culture, Muslim youth, religion and alternative economies and the anthropology of Islam.