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| Institute Director | |
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| Professor Christina Phillips | Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Institute Director Arabic and Arab anglophone writing, comparative literature, translation studies, postcolonial theory. |
| Academic Staff | |
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| Professor Dionisius A. Agius FBA | Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture: Senior Research Fellow maritime cultural landscapes; dhow studies; Indian Ocean; Medieval Arabic geography and travel accounts; Islamic material culture; the 'Aja'ib (marvels) Arabic literary genre; Arabic philology |
| Dr Sabiha Allouche | Lecturer in Middle East Politics Gender and Sexuality Studies, Migration and Racialization, Queer Aesthetics, and Postcolonial/Decolonial Approaches (with reference to the Middle East). |
| Dr Mustafa Baig | Lecturer in Islamic Studies Islamic Law, Muslims living in non-Muslim contexts |
| Dr Samer Bakkour | Lecturer in ME Studies and Politics Peace Process and Reconciliation, Arab Israel Conflict, USA Policy in the ME, GCC Politics and War, Arab uprising, Islamic Movements Formation and Strategies, Migration , Internal and External Displacement, Syrian Politics and Economics. |
| Dr Claire Beaugrand | Lecturer in Sociology of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula |
| Professor Siam Bhayro | Associate Professor, Semitic Languages and Jewish Studies Bible, Semitic Languages and the Ancient Near East; Early Judaism and Jewish Biblical Exegesis; Medicine in the Christian and Islamic Orient; Aramaic incantation texts; ancient and medieval music |
| 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 |
| Professor John P. Cooper | Associate Professor in Maritime Archaeology & Arabic 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 |
| Professor Nahyan Fancy | Al-Qasimi Professor in Islamic Studies |
| Dr Giorgia Ferrari | Lecturer |
| Professor William Gallois | Professor of the History of the Mediterranean Islamicate World | Assistant Director IAIS 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 Electoral politics, nondemocracies, good governance, local government, identity (especially tribal) politics, politics of the Arab world |
| Dr Farangis Ghaderi | Lecturer in Gender and Kurdish Studies, Director of the Centre for Kurdish Studies, Principle Investigator (PI) of the Kurdish Digital Archive |
| Professor Maziyar Ghiabi | Associate Professor of Social Sciences Social and Critical Theory; Medical Humanities; Politics and History of Health and Medicine; Drugs History and Politics; Global South and Iran; State-Citizens relations; The Politics of Right-Wing Groups in the MENA; Urban And Rural Politics; Epistemologies of the South; addiction; social theory. Transdisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Methodologies; Photography and Documentary Making; Graphic nonfiction Novels. |
| 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 Adam Hanieh | Professor of Political Economy and Global Development Political Economy; Class and State formation; Race, Labour and Migration; Neoliberalism, Finance, and Development; Oil and Capitalism |
| Dr Allan Hassaniyan | Lecturer in Middle East Politics Kurdish politics, Kurdish nationalism and national movement, civil society and political and cultural activism in Iranian Kurdistan. |
| Professor Timothy Insoll FBA | Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology, Director of Research 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; Saudi Arabia; Al-Andalus; India; Indian Ocean trade networks; Ethnoarchaeology of African shrines and medicine practices; Representation of Islam in Museums |
| Professor Laleh Khalili | Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies Infrastructure, oil and finance, climate and environment, transnational movements, maritime transportation and logistics |
| Dr István Kristó-Nagy | Senior Lecturer in Arab & Islamic Studies, Director of the Centre for the Study of Islam 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 Nadia Naser-Najjab | Senior Lecturer in Palestine Studies Palestine Israel Setter Colonialism Resistance Decolonisation Civil Society Solidarity Neoliberalism Reconciliation |
| Dr Katie Natanel | Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies feminist theory; political violence; decolonisation; Palestine/Israel; affect and embodiment; temporality; political mobilisation and participation; ecology; 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 |
| Dr Michael Noble | Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies |
| Ms Abla Oudeh Mahmoud | Lecturer |
| Professor Ilan Pappé | Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies. |
| Dr Ross Porter | Lecturer Anthropology of revolution, time, ethics, freedom, Yemen |
| Safaa Radoan | Associate Lecturer |
| Fatima Rawan | Senior Lecturer in Arabic Language |
| Professor Sajjad Rizvi | Professor of Islamic Intellectual History and Islamic Studies Islamic Philosophy, Intellectual History, Global Philosophy, Quranic Hermeneutics, Decoloniality, Shiʿi Islam |
| Professor Christine Robins (formerly Allison) | Ibrahim Ahmed Professor of Kurdish Studies, Director of Education. Kurds, Kurdish, Kurmanji, memory, religous minority, Yezidi, Mandaean, narrative responsibility, speech genre, orality, literacy, linguistic anthropology, endangered religion, extinction |
| Dr Rama Sahtout | Lecturer |
| Dr Clemence Scalbert-Yucel | Senior Lecturer in Ethnopolitics Sociology of literature, translation, Kurdish literature, cultural production, heritage, rurality and ecology, Turkey, Kurdistan |
| Associate Professor Emily Selove | Associate Professor in Medieval Arabic Literature Medieval Arabic literature, magic, sympotic literature, banquet literature, wine, sexuality, reception |
| Professor Gareth Stansfield | Professor of Middle East Politics, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean (HASS) |
| Professor Lise Storm | Associate Professor of Party Politics 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 of Education and Student Experience (IAIS) Gulf monarchies; political economy; political sociology; comparative (Middle East) politics; authoritarianism; state-business relations. |
| Research Staff | |
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| Dr Belal Alabbas | British Academy Newton International Fellow |
| Dr Kanwal Hameed | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Dr Marya Hannun | Post-Doctoral Researcher, MERIP managing editor |
| Dr Luca Patrizi | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| 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 Shiʿite Islam Shiʿi Studies Arab and Islamic Studies South Asian Studies |
| Dr Bianka Speidl | Marie Curie / UKRI Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Professional Services Staff | |
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| Sarah Firman | EA Gareth Stansfield - HoD, PGR Support, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies |
| Leo Leandro Rodrigues | Project and Web Development Manager (MESnet) |
| Cathy Potter | Department Manager |
| Sarah Roberts | Administrator |
| Sarah Wood | Research Support and Website lead IAIS, Project Administrator and PA to Professor Rob Gleave |
| Visiting Professors | |
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| Professor Karen Ruffle | Visiting Al-Qasimi Professor in Islamic Studies |
| Honorary Professors | |
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| Professor Tahir Abbas | Honorary Professor Extremism, Islamophobia, Political Polarisation, Racialisation, Radicalisation |
| Mr Martin Angle | Honorary Professor |
| Emeritus Professor Richard Hitchcock | Professor Emeritus |
| Professor Matteo Legrenzi | Honorary Professor |
| Honorary Research Fellows | |
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| Ömer Aksoy | Affiliated post-doctoral researcher |
| Dr Saud Al-Sarhan | Honorary Senior Research Fellow |
| Mr Paul Auchterlonie | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Li Bingzhong | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Uri Davis | Honorary Research Fellows |
| Dr Amin Ehteshami | Research Fellow Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi’ite Islam |
| Dr Elham Fakhro | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Paul Gledhill | Research Fellow in Islamic Studies |
| Dr Manami Goto | Honorary Research Fellow Gulf Studies, Material Culture, Dress, Ethnography |
| Dr Wai-Yip Ho | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Juan Macías-Amoretti | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Sami Miaari | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr James Onley | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Francis Owtram | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Sophie Richter-Devroe | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Endika Rodriguez Martin | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Seevan Saeed | Honorary research fellow |
| Dr Irwan Saidin | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Muhanad Seloom | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Zeeshan Shaikh | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Nur Sobers-Khan | Honorary Senior Research Fellows |
| Dr Norbert Weismann | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Mr Cameron Zargar | Honorary Research Fellow Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi’ite Islam |
| 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 |
| Jamal Abu Eisheh | PhD Student | |
| Imran Ahmed | PhD Student | |
| Abdulmohsen Al Saud | PhD Student | |
| Yesar Al-Maleki | PhD Student | |
| Roba Al-Salibi | PhD Student | |
| Hissa Albadi | PhD Student | |
| Sayed Ismail Albehbehani | PhD Student | |
| Ahmed Aldhubayi | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Mefreh Alharshani | PhD Student | |
| Hamzah Almustafa | PhD Student | |
| Sahar Alnaas | PhD Student | |
| Tariq Alsabahi | Centre for Gulf Studies | PhD Student |
| Khaled Alteneiji | PhD Student | |
| Esther Elena Alva Bazan | PhD Student | |
| Francesco Amoruso | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Hassan Nasser Y Asiri | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Rami Babiker | PhD Student | |
| Bryar Bajalan | PhD Student | |
| Leen Barghouti | PhD Student | |
| Lucy Barkley | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Zarefah Baroud | PhD Student | |
| Hamdullah Baycar | PhD Student | |
| Cordelia Begbie | PhD Student | |
| Shahanaz Begum | PhD Student | |
| Anne Blanchflower | PhD Student | |
| Mark Bracher | PhD Student | |
| Bogdan-Nicolae Brebeanu | PhD Student | |
| Amirah Bukhari | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Francesa Buono | PhD Student | |
| Christopher Burnham | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Christopher Cox | PhD Student | |
| Majida Deeb Ibrahim | PhD Student | |
| Maria Della Porta Rodiani | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Samantha Dobson | PhD Student | |
| Nur Efeoglu | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Mohamed Ethabet | PhD Student | |
| Ali Fares | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Lara Marlen Fricke | PhD Student | |
| Kamen Gechev | PhD Student | |
| Nathan Gubbins | PhD Student | |
| Elif Gun | PhD Student | |
| Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Tarek Hamoud | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Ehtashamul Haque | PhD Student | |
| Stéphane Hlaimi | PhD Student | |
| Robert Hoffman | PhD Student | |
| Rebecca Howarth | PhD Student | |
| Uzair Ibrahim | PhD Student | |
| Hayder Jafari | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Jewel Hossain Jalil | PhD Student | |
| Olivia Jones | Centre for Gulf Studies | PhD Student |
| Gizem Kahraman Aksoy | Centre for Gulf Studies and Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Isobel Kingscott | PhD Student | |
| Venla Koivuluhta | PhD Student | |
| Yu Lan | PhD Student | |
| Adam Ahmad Lane | PhD Student | |
| Richard Latham Lechowick | PhD Student | |
| Yiying Li | PhD Student | |
| Charlotte Littlewood | PhD Student | |
| Colter Louwerse | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Hamid Maghsoodi | PhD Student | |
| Cristina Martínez Carrillo | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Mohamed Matar | Centre for Gulf Studies | PhD Student |
| Asmaa Meftah | PhD Student | |
| Ihsan Mejdi | PhD Student | |
| Hatice Kubra Memis | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Abdulla Saad Moswes | PhD Student | |
| Majid Montazer Mahdi | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Vito Morisco | PhD Student | |
| Nora Nago | PhD Student | |
| Mohsen RezaNajafi | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Hesham Nasr | PhD Student | |
| Tanya Newbury-Smith | PhD Student | |
| Kinan Noah | PhD Student | |
| Lena Obermaier | PhD Student | |
| Karwan Osman | PhD Student | |
| Hannah Parsons | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Elias Ragi | PhD Student | |
| Mihraban Raouf Rasoul | PhD Student | |
| Rami Rmeileh | PhD Student | |
| Joshua Ruebner | PhD Student | |
| Mohammad-Payam Saadat Sarmadi | PhD Student | |
| Hasti Safavi | PhD Student | |
| Soumaya Salah | PhD Student | |
| Mohammed Sanad | PhD Student | |
| Hemn Seyedi | PhD Student | |
| Dilshad Sharif | PhD Student | |
| Kristine Sheets | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Durdona Shovkatova | PhD Student | |
| Serdar Sümer | PhD Student | |
| Kanwal Tareq Hameed Abdulhameed | Centre for Gulf Studies | PhD Student |
| Awet Teklehimanot Araya | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Amira Toureche | PhD Student | |
| Ibrahim Urkac | PhD Student | |
| Alexandra Warminski | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Benjamin White | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Shijie Xu | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Ofra Yeshua-Lyth | PhD Student | |
| Syed Farhan A. Zaidi | PhD Student | |
| Peyman Zinati | PhD Student | |