IAIS Staff

Institute Director (on study leave until 1 September 2012)
Professor Gareth Stansfield Professor of Middle East Politics, Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Institute Deputy Director (Acting Director until 31 August 2012)
Professor Ian Netton Sharjah Professor of Islamic Studies, Deputy Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Professors
Professor Dionisius A. Agius FBA Al Qasimi Professor of Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture
Professor Robert Gleave Professor of Arabic Studies
Professor Tim Niblock Professor of Arab Gulf Studies
Professor Ilan Pappé Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies and Co-Director for the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies
Associate Professors
Professor Hashem Ahmadzadeh Associate Professor of Middle East Studies
Professor Christine Allison Ibrahim Ahmed Professor of Kurdish Studies
Professor Jonathan Githens-Mazer Associate Professor
Professor Sajjad Rizvi Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Director of Education
Senior Lecturers
Dr Leonard Lewisohn Senior Lecturer, Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow in Persian and Sufi Literaure
Dr James Onley Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern History
Dr Lise Storm Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics
Dr Suha Taji-Farouki Lecturer in Modern Islam
Lecturers
Dr Omar Ashour Lecturer in the Politics of the Modern Arab World
Dr Michael Axworthy Lecturer
Dr Manuela Elisa B. Giolfo Lecturer in Arabic
Mr Ali Mossadegh Lecturer
Dr Klejda Mulaj Lecturer in International Relations
Dr Christina Phillips Lecturer of Arabic Literature and Media
Dr Sophie Richter-Devroe Lecturer in Gender and Middle East Studies
Dr Clemence Scalbert-Yucel Lecturer in Ethnopolitics
Dr Marc Valeri Lecturer in Political Economy of the Middle East
Teaching Fellows
Ms Nesrin Amin Teaching Fellow
Dr Cherine Chams-El-Dine
Dr Massimiliano Fiore
Miss Farangis Ghaderi
Miss Sawad Hussain Teaching Fellow
Ms Wafa Iskander Teaching Fellow
Ms Fatima Rawan Teaching Fellow
Research Fellows
Dr Mary Alice Clancy Research Fellow (EXCEPS)
Dr John P. Cooper Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mares Project
Dr Ioannis Kanakis Research fellow
Dr István Kristó-Nagy Research Fellow 'Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought' project
Dr Chiara Zazarro Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Support Staff
Mrs Jemma Buddle Department Administrator (IAIS)
Ms Jane Clark Research and Finance (IAIS)
Mrs Sarah Hector Administrative Assistant
Zoe Jennings Research Support Officer (EXCEPS, CKS)
Miss Julia Paci Employability and Work Placement Officer
Librarian
Afzal Hasan Arab and Islamic Studies, Politics Subject Librarian
Professors Emeriti
Professor Rasheed El-Enany Professor Emeritus
Professor Richard Hitchcock Professor Emeritus
Visiting Professors
Professor Habibollahe Abbasi
Dr Khalid al-Dhaheri
Professor Abdulaziz N. Al-Mani Professor Emeritus, King Saud University, Riyadh
Professor Edmund Bosworth
Professor Said Faiq
Professor Najm Kadhim
Professor James W Morris Professor, Chair of Islamic Studies
Visiting Research Fellows
Dr Sevilay Aksoy Visiting fellow
Dr Rifat Okudan Visiting research fellow
Dr Hossein Simaee
Honorary Research Fellows
Mr Ahmed Abu-Zayed Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Saud Al-Sarhan Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Khalid Almezaini Honorary Research Fellow
Mr Paul Auchterlonie Honorary Research Fellow
Ms Rosemary Baillon Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul Honorary Research Fellow
Professor Herman Bell Professor, Senior Research Fellow
Mr John R. L. Carter Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Shaun Curtis Associate Fellow
Dr Uri Davis Honorary Research Fellows
Dr Ghada Karmi Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Dr Fatemeh Kohan Honorary Research Fellow
Ms Jane Lewisohn Honorary Research Fellow
Mr Leslie McLoughlin Senior Research Fellow
Dr Harriet Nash Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Francis Owtram Honorary Research Fellow (EXCEPS)
Mr Christopher Ward Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Steven Wright Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Luciano Zaccara Honorary Research Fellow
Associate Research Fellows
Ioannis Kalpouzos