IAIS Staff

Institute Director
Professor Gareth Stansfield	Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies, Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

Head of Department
Professor Sajjad Rizvi	Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Head of Department

Professors
Professor Dionisius A. Agius FBA	Al Qasimi Professor of Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture
Professor Robert Gleave	Professor of Arabic Studies
Professor Ian Netton	Sharjah Professor of Islamic Studies
Professor Ilan Pappé	Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies.

Associate Professors
Professor Christine Allison	Ibrahim Ahmed Professor of Kurdish Studies
Professor Jonathan Githens-Mazer	Associate Professor

Senior Lecturers
Dr Omar Ashour	Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics and Security Studies
Dr Michael Axworthy	Senior Lecturer
Dr William Gallois	Senior Lecturer in Modern Middle East History
Dr Leonard Lewisohn	Senior Lecturer, Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow in Persian and Sufi Literaure
Dr James Onley	Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern History
Dr Clemence Scalbert-Yucel	Senior Lecturer in Ethnopolitics
Dr Lise Storm	Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics
Dr Suha Taji-Farouki	Senior Lecturer in Modern Islam
Dr Marc Valeri	Senior Lecturer in Political Economy of the Middle East, Director - Centre for Gulf Studies

Lecturers
Dr John P. Cooper	Lecturer in Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture
Dr Eleanor Gao	Lecturer in Middle Eastern Politics
Mr Mohamed Hasan	Lecturer
Ms Wafa Iskander	Lecturer
Dr István Kristó-Nagy	Lecturer in Arab & Islamic Studies
Mr Ali Mossadegh	Lecturer
Dr Christina Phillips	Lecturer in Arabic Literature and Media
Ms Fatima Rawan	Lecturer
Dr Sophie Richter-Devroe	Lecturer in Gender and Middle East Studies

Research Fellows
Dr Mustafa Baig	Research Fellow
Dr Nadia Naser-Najjab	Research Fellow

Support Staff
Tom Allen	SSIS Student Recruitment Administrator
Judith Breckell	SSIS Administrator (Education & Workload Planning)
Ms Jane Clark	Research and Finance (IAIS)
Mrs Sarah Cook	Administrator (Research)
Zoe Jennings	PA to Director and Head of Dept
Lynda McGroggan	Education Administrator
Eleanor Monger	SSIS Student Recruitment Team Leader
Miss Julia Paci	Employability and Work Placement Officer
Emma Reeve	Marketing Manager
Sarah Turner	Alumni Officer
Rosalynd Wheeler	Administrative Assistant

Librarian
Afzal Hasan	Arab and Islamic Studies, Politics Subject Librarian

Professors Emeriti
Professor Rasheed El-Enany	Professor Emeritus
Professor Richard Hitchcock	Professor Emeritus
Professor Tim Niblock	Professor Emeritus

Visiting Research Fellows
Dr Hossein Simaee

Honorary Research Fellows
Dr Muayad Ahmed Shihab Al-Khshali	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Saad Abadulaziz Aloudah	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Sufyan Aabu Zayda	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Noor al-Qasimi	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Saud Al-Sarhan	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
Mr John R. L. Carter	Honorary Research Fellow
Ms Nur Cetinoglu	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Shaun Curtis	Associate Fellow
Dr Uri Davis	Honorary Research Fellows
Dr Pinar Dost-Niyego	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Elaine M Goodwin	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Syahrul Hidayat	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Lahay A Hussain	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Intan Syah Ichsan	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr N Janardhan	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Ghada Karmi	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Basoeki Koesasi	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Fatemeh Kohan	Honorary Research Fellow
Mr Leslie McLoughlin	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Harriet Nash	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Francis Owtram	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Rskal Salim	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr David Seddon	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Jordi Tejel	Honorary Research Fellow
Mr Christopher Ward	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Steven Wright	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Luciano Zaccara	Honorary Research Fellow