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| Institute Director | |
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| Professor Gareth Stansfield | Institute Director, Al-Qasimi Professor of Arab Gulf Studies, Professor of Middle East Politics and Associate Dean (Global), College of Social Sciences and International Studies |
| Academic Staff | |
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| Professor Dionisius A. Agius FBA | Al Qasimi Professor of Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture |
| Dr Omar Ashour | Senior Lecturer |
| Dr Mustafa Baig | Lecturer in Islamic Studies Islamic Law, Muslims living in non-Muslim contexts |
| Dr Claire Beaugrand | Lecturer in Sociology of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula |
| Dr Billie Jeanne Brownlee | Lecturer in Middle East Politics social media revolution Arab Spring Internet digital technologies social movement revolts uprising displacement migration refugees refugee crisis Syria Lebanon civil society resistance dissent development aid micro-politics authoritarianism |
| Dr Ferah Burgul | Lecturer |
| Dr John P. Cooper | Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture Arabian Gulf; Boat building; Dhow; Egypt; Harbours; Indian Ocean; Islamic Archaeology; Maritime Archaeology; Maritime Cultural Landscapes; Navigation; Nile; Red Sea; Seafaring; Ships. |
| Dr Ahmed Dailami | Lecturer in the History of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula |
| Emeritus Professor Rasheed El-Enany | Professor Emeritus |
| Dr Giorgia Ferrari | Lecturer |
| Professor Maria Fierro | Al-Qasimi Professor of Islamic Studies |
| Associate Professor William Gallois | Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History, Director of Research Algeria Tunisia Morocco Maghreb North Africa Libya Mauritania Senegal Art Painting Culture History Decolonial Subaltern Violence Time Global |
| Dr Eleanor Gao | Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Politics Good governance, local government, identity (especially tribal) politics, politics of the Arab world |
| Associate Professor Jonathan Githens-Mazer | Associate Professor in Ethno-Politics Theories of nationalism,ethno-symbolist approaches to nationalism, ethnic conflict, national myths, memories and symbols, nationalist mobilisation, Irish nationalism, Algerian nationalism, radicalisation |
| Professor Robert Gleave | Professor of Arabic Studies Hermeneutics and Scriptural Exegesis in Islam, Islamic Law, in particular works of Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh), Violence and its justification in Islamic thought, Shi'ism, in particular Shi'i legal and political theory |
| Professor Timothy Insoll | Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology Islamic Archaeology; Later African Archaeology; Archaeology and materiality of African indigenous religions; Arabian Gulf Archaeology; Archaeology of West African empires; Mali; Ghana; Songhay; Red Sea; Ethiopia; Bahrain; India; Indian Ocean trade networks; Ethnoarchaeology of African shrines and medicine practices; Representation of Islam in Museums |
| Dr István Kristó-Nagy | Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies Abbasid culture; Early and classical Islamic civilisation; social and intellectual history; art history; literature; political thought, Zandaqa (Manicheism and other forms of dualist thought); the kuttāb (administrative elite); comparative and interdisciplinary studies. |
| Mr Ali Mossadegh | Lecturer in Persian Language |
| Dr Katie Natanel | Lecturer in Gender Studies feminist theory; political violence; decolonisation; Palestine/Israel; affect and embodiment; temporality; political mobilisation and participation; creative pedagogies; performative research methodologies |
| Emeritus Professor Ian Netton | Professor Emeritus Islamic theology and philosophy, Anthropology of religion (especially ritual), Sufism, mediaeval Arab travellers, Arabic and Islamic bibliography, comparative textuality and semiotics, comparative religion |
| Emeritus Professor Tim Niblock | Professor Emeritus |
| Ms Abla Oudeh Mahmoud | Lecturer |
| Professor Ilan Pappé | Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies. |
| Dr Christina Phillips | Senior Lecturer in Arabic Literature and Media Arabic and Arab anglophone writing, comparative literature, translation studies, postcolonial theory. |
| Dr Ross Porter | Lecturer Anthropology of time, ethics, the state, revolution, freedom |
| Safaa Radoan | Associate Lecturer |
| Ms Fatima Rawan | Lecturer in Arabic Language |
| Associate Professor Sajjad Rizvi | Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History and Islamic Studies Islamic Philosophy, Intellectual History, Global Philosophy, Quranic Hermeneutics, Exegesis, Shiʿi Islam |
| Associate Professor Christine Robins (formerly Allison) | Ibrahim Ahmed Professor of Kurdish Studies. Kurds, Kurdish, Kurmanji, memory, religous minority, Yezidi, Mandaean, narrative responsibility, speech genre, orality, literacy, linguistic anthropology, endangered religion, extinction |
| Dr Clemence Scalbert-Yucel | Senior Lecturer in Ethnopolitics Kurdish literature, cultural production, heritage, rurality and ecology, Turkey, Kurdistan |
| Dr Emily Selove | Senior Lecturer of Medieval Arabic Language and Literature Medieval Arabic literature, magic, sympotic literature, banquet literature, wine, sexuality, reception |
| Dr Lise Storm | Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics, Director of Education Democracy; democratization; authoritarianism; political parties; party systems; democracy assistance; aid; development; SDG16. |
| Dr Suha Taji-Farouki | Senior Lecturer in Modern Islam modern and contemporary Islam and Islamic thought, sufism, Muslim devotionalism, Muslim prayer, Ibn 'Arabi in the modern world, Islamic movements, political Islam, Islamic radicalism, Qur'anic studies, interfaith relations |
| Associate Professor Marc Valeri | Associate Professor in Political Economy of the Middle East, Director - Centre for Gulf Studies, College Director of Postgraduate Research Gulf monarchies; political economy; political sociology; comparative (Middle East) politics; authoritarianism; state-business relations. |
| Research Staff | |
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| Dr Samer Bakkour | Research Associate |
| Dr Amin Ehteshami | Research Fellow Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi’ite Islam |
| Dr Farangis Ghaderi | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Dr Paul Gledhill | Research Fellow in Islamic Studies |
| Dr Allan Hassaniyan | Postdoctoral Research Fellow Kurdish politics, Kurdish nationalism and national movement, civil society and political and cultural activism in Iranian Kurdistan. |
| Dr Nadia Khalaf | Postdoctoral Research Fellow African Archaeology; Islamic Archaeology; landscape archaeology; satellite remote sensing; Geographical Information Systems (GIS); cultural heritage management |
| Dr Nadia Naser-Najjab | Research Fellow in Palestine Studies Palestine Israel Setter Colonialism Resistance Decolonisation Civil Society Solidarity Neoliberalism reconciliation |
| Dr Luca Patrizi | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Dr Davide Pettinato | Research Fellow Islam, Muslims and the environment / climate change / sustainable development; Muslim organisations / NGOs / charities; Islam in the UK / British Muslims |
| Dr Raha Rafii | Research Fellow Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi’ite Islam |
| Dr Kumail Rajani | Research Fellow Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi’ite Islam |
| Mr Cameron Zargar | Research Fellow |
| Professional Services Staff | |
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| Tom Allen | SSIS Student Recruitment and Admissions Coordinator |
| Melissa Barrett | Widening Participation Coordinator |
| Gemma Bartlett ACIM | Strategic Marketing Campaign Manager |
| Kate Blackmore | Pathways to Law & Outreach Officer |
| Clare Crick | Global Development Advisor |
| Sarah Firman | Project Administrator |
| Leo Leandro Rodrigues | Project and Web Development Manager (MESnet) |
| Sarah Lucas | Communications and Marketing Officer |
| Eleanor Monger | Student Recruitment and Admissions Manager |
| Emma Reeve | Marketing, Recruitment, Communications & Global Business Partner |
| Sarah Roberts | Administrator |
| James Smith | Business Partner, International Partnerships |
| Jane Tanner | Web Marketing Officer (Web Team) |
| Rebecca Thomson | Administrator/EA to HoD |
| Tina Verhaeghe | IAIS Manager |
| Sarah Wood | Project Administrator |
| Visiting Professors | |
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| Dr Eric Chaumont | Visiting Honorary Professor, Islamic studies |
| Honorary Research Fellows | |
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| Dr Saud Al-Sarhan | Honorary Senior Research Fellow |
| Mr Paul Auchterlonie | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Professor Herman Bell | Professor, Senior Research Fellow |
| Dr Li Bingzhong | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Manami Goto | Honorary Research Fellow Gulf Studies, Material Culture, Dress, Ethnography |
| Dr Ghassan Khatib | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Jane Lewisohn | Honorary Associate Research Fellow |
| Dr Sami Miaari | 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 Muhanad Seloom | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Kelsey Shanks | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Norbert Weismann | Honorary Research Fellow |
| PhD students | ||
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| Yunus Abakay | Centre for Kurdish Studies | PhD Student |
| Faris Abdel-Hadi | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Mohammad Affan | PhD Student | |
| Usama Al-Atar | PhD Student | |
| Maryam Al-Kuwari | Centre for Gulf Studies | PhD Student |
| Roba Al-Salibi | PhD Student | |
| Bassam Albinmohamed | PhD Student | |
| Ahmed Aldhubayi | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Ahmad Alfaraj | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Mefreh Alharshani | PhD Student | |
| Mahdi Ali Poor Kalaei | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Abdullah Almatar | PhD Student | |
| Hamzah Almustafa | PhD Student | |
| Tariq Alsabahi | PhD Student | |
| Hawar Ameen | PhD Student | |
| Francesco Amoruso | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Nathan Anderson | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Hassan Nasser Y Asiri | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Mohammed Asiri | PhD Student | |
| Lucy Barkley | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Hamdullah Baycar | PhD Student | |
| Cordelia Begbie | PhD Student | |
| Tobias Borck | PhD Student | |
| Mark Bracher | PhD Student | |
| Amirah Bukhari | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Christopher Burnham | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Nihat Cakir | PhD Student | |
| Christopher Cox | PhD Student | |
| Maria Della Porta Rodiani | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Nur Efeoglu | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Ali Fares | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Inés Fernández Moral | PhD Student | |
| Adelbert Finch | PhD Student | |
| Robert Fuller | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Alessandro Ghidoni | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Rahim Gholami | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| John Goodman | PhD Student | |
| Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Ayat Hamdan | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Tarek Hamoud | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Oliver Hayakawa | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Adam Hogan | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Danyah Jaber | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Areej Jafari | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Hayder Jafari | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Olivia Jones | PhD Student | |
| Gizem Kahraman Aksoy | Centre for Gulf Studies and Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Isobel Kingscott | PhD Student | |
| Venla Koivuluhta | PhD Student | |
| Charlotte Littlewood | PhD Student | |
| Colter Louwerse | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Hamid Maghsoodi | PhD Student | |
| Jihad Mashamoun | PhD Student | |
| Youssef Masrieh | PhD Student | |
| Mohamed Matar | PhD Student | |
| Asmaa Meftah | PhD Student | |
| Hatice Kubra Memis | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Majid Montazer Mahdi | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Vito Morisco | PhD Student | |
| Koji Muto | Centre for Gulf Studies | PhD Student |
| Mohsen RezaNajafi | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Baris Oktem | PhD Student | |
| Hannah Parsons | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Maria Gloria Polimeno | PhD Student | |
| Gabriel Polley | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Mihraban Raouf Rasoul | PhD Student | |
| Mohammad-Payam Saadat Sarmadi | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Schluwa Sama | PhD Student | |
| Mohammed Sanad | PhD Student | |
| Kristine Sheets | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Serdar Sümer | PhD Student | |
| Nicholas Tait | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Kanwal Abdulhameed | Centre for Gulf Studies | PhD Student |
| Awet Teklehimanot Araya | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Amira Toureche | PhD Student | |
| Silvia Truini | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Hadi Wahab | PhD Student | |
| Benjamin White | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Richard Willson | PhD Student | |
| Joe Worthington | PhD Student | |
| Shijie Xu | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |