Nia Deliana earned a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Human Sciences, International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM). Her dissertation concentrates on precedent historical foreign relations between Indians and Indonesia. She has published on numerous issues. Before Joining UIII, she taught global Muslim civilization and historical international relations of Indonesia in Malaysia and Turkey. Her latest works include a chapter on the Rohingya during the Pandemic, in an edit work titled CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age by Emily Zoe Hertzman, et all (University of Hawai’i Press 2023).