Dr Suha Taji-Farouki

Biography

I was awarded my PhD in Modern Islam and Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter in 1993. My thesis examined the history, ideology and organisational structure of trans-national Islamist party Hizb al-Tahrir. In 1993 I was appointed Lecturer in Contemporary Islam and Arabic, then Lecturer in Modern Islam, at the University of Durham, where I remained until 2003. I was Skirball Visiting Fellow in Residence at Oxford University’s Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 1996, and a Visiting Fellow at The Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies in Amman (Jordan) in 1997. From 1999 to 2003 I was a Visiting Fellow and Faculty Member at The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) in London. In 2004 I was appointed Lecturer in Modern Islam at the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies; I am also Research Associate and Faculty Member at The Institute of Ismaili Studies. In 2007 I was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftkolleg zu Berlin (Berlin Institute for Advanced Study).