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Institute Director | |
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Professor Christine Robins (formerly Allison) | Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Ibrahim Ahmed Professor of Kurdish Studies. |
Academic Staff | |
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Emeritus Professor Dionisius A. Agius FBA | Al Qasimi Professor of Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture |
Dr Michael Axworthy | Senior Lecturer |
Dr Mustafa Baig | Lecturer in Islamic Studies |
Dr Billie Jeanne Brownlee | Lecturer in Middle East Politics |
Dr John P. Cooper | Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture |
Emeritus Professor Rasheed El-Enany | Professor Emeritus |
Associate Professor William Gallois | Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History, Director of Research |
Dr Eleanor Gao | Lecturer in Middle Eastern Politics |
Associate Professor Jonathan Githens-Mazer | Associate Professor in Ethno-Politics |
Professor Robert Gleave | Professor of Arabic Studies |
Emeritus Professor Richard Hitchcock | Professor Emeritus |
Professor Timothy Insoll | Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology |
Ms Wafa Iskander | Lecturer in Arabic Language |
Dr Marc Jones | Lecturer in History of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula |
Dr István Kristó-Nagy | Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies |
Dr Leonard Lewisohn | Senior Lecturer, Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow in Persian and Sufi Literaure |
Mr Ali Mossadegh | Lecturer in Persian Language |
Dr Katie Natanel | Lecturer in Gender Studies |
Emeritus Professor Ian Netton | Professor Emeritus |
Emeritus Professor Tim Niblock | Professor Emeritus |
Ms Abla Oudeh Mahmoud | Lecturer |
Dr Burcu Ozturk | Lecturer in Turkish Language |
Professor Ilan Pappé | Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies. |
Dr Christina Phillips | Senior Lecturer in Arabic Literature and Media |
Ms Fatima Rawan | Lecturer in Arabic Language |
Associate Professor Sajjad Rizvi | Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History and Islamic Studies |
Dr Clemence Scalbert-Yucel | Senior Lecturer in Ethnopolitics |
Dr Emily Selove | Lecturer of Medieval Arabic Language and Literature |
Professor Gareth Stansfield | Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies, Professor of Middle East Politics, Director for the Centre of Kurdish Studies |
Dr Lise Storm | Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics, Director of Education |
Dr Suha Taji-Farouki | Senior Lecturer in Modern Islam |
Associate Professor Marc Valeri | Associate Professor in Political Economy of the Middle East, Director - Centre for Gulf Studies, College Director of Postgraduate Research |
Research Staff | |
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Dr Omar Anchassi | Research Fellow - Understanding Shari'a Project |
Dr Claire Beaugrand | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
Dr Paul Gledhill | Research Fellow on LAWALISI Project |
Dr Wissam Halawi | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
Dr Nadia Khalaf | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
Dr Nadia Naser-Najjab | Research Fellow in Palestine Studies |
Dr Ross Porter | Research Fellow |
Dr Kelsey Shanks | Research Fellow - ESRC Iraq Disputed Territories |
Professional Services Staff | |
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Tom Allen | SSIS Student Recruitment Administrator |
Kate Blackmore | Outreach Officer- Communications & Corporate Affairs |
Nikki Clews | IAIS Manager |
Zoë Humble | ESRC Iraq Disputed Territories Research Project Administrator |
Lizzie Hustwayte | Academic Programme Support Manager |
Leo Leandro Rodrigues | Project and Web Development Manager (MESnet) |
Eleanor Monger | Student Recruitment and Admissions Manager |
Pam Navran | Research Project Administrator |
Miss Julia Paci | Employability and Outreach Manager |
Emma Reeve | Acting Head of Communications and Marketing |
Sarah Roberts | Administrator |
James Smith | Business Partner, International Partnerships |
Jane Tanner | Web Marketing Officer (Web Team) |
Visiting Professors | |
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Professor Said Faiq | Visiting Professor |
Professor Gerd Nonneman | Visiting Professor |
Honorary Research Fellows | |
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Dr Noor al-Qasimi | Honorary Research Fellow |
Mr Paul Auchterlonie | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul | Honorary Research Fellow |
Professor Herman Bell | Professor, Senior Research Fellow |
Dr Li Bingzhong | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Farangis Ghaderi | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Elaine M Goodwin | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Syahrul Hidayat | Honorary Research Fellow |
Professor Mohammed Ihsan | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Julian Jansen Van Rensburg | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Ghada Karmi | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Ghassan Khatib | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Basoeki Koesasi | Honorary Research Fellow |
Mr Simon Laws | Honorary Research Fellow |
Jane Lewisohn | Honorary Associate Research Fellow |
Mr Leslie McLoughlin | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Farah Mohammad | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Kawa Morad | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Harriet Nash | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr James Onley | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Francis Owtram | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Sophie Richter-Devroe | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr David Seddon | Honorary Research Fellow |
Mr Christopher Ward | Honorary Research Fellow |
Dr Norbert Weismann | Honorary Research Fellow |