Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
| 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, Director of the Centre for 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 Sophie Richter-Devroe | Senior Lecturer in Gender and Middle East Studies |
| 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 Mesut Gülper | Turkish Language 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 Emily Selove | Lecturer |
| Dr Mohammed Shareef | Lecturer in Ethnopolitics and Iraqi Politics |
| Research Fellows | |
|---|---|
| Dr Mustafa Baig | Research Fellow |
| Dr Alex Mallett | Research Fellow |
| Dr Nadia Naser-Najjab | Research Fellow |
| Support Staff | |
|---|---|
| Tom Allen | SSIS Student Recruitment Administrator |
| Kate Blackmore | Projects Officer (Widening Participation and Pathways to Law) |
| 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 Outreach Manager |
| Emma Reeve | Marketing Manager |
| Sarah Turner | Alumni Officer (on maternity leave) |
| 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 | |
| Visiting Professors | |
|---|---|
| Professor Edmund Bosworth | |
| Professor Said Faiq | |
| Professor Gerd Nonneman | Visiting Professor |
| 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 Bryan Gibson | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Elaine M Goodwin | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Chhaya Goswami | 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 Julian Jansen Van Rensburg | 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 |
| Miss Anastasia Nosova | Associate 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 |
