Centre for Palestine Studies Members
Gilbert Achcar
Centre Chair
Political economy and sociology of globalisation; global power structure and grand strategy; empire theory and US hegemony; politics and development of the Middle East and North Africa; sociology of religion; Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism; social change and social theory.
- Tel: 020 7898 4557
- Email: ga3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 292b
- Office Hours: Monday 2-4pm
Hassan Hakimian
Advisory Committee Member
Human Resources; Demography; Trade Policy & Regional Integration; Energy and Natural Resources with reference to the MENA region.
- Tel: 020 7898 4475
- Email: hh2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: M108
Advisory Committee
Adam Hanieh
Advisory Committee Member
Political economy; labour migration; Middle East politics; Gulf Cooperation Council; migration development and remittances class and state formation internationalisation Palestine.
- Tel: 020 7898 4784
- Email: ah92@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4413
- Office Hours: Thursday 3-5
Dina Matar
Advisory Committee Member
Middle East, especially the Arab world; international political communication; Arab cultural politics; Arab cultural studies; memory studies and oral history; Islamist movements; social movements and media; diasporas; ethnic minorities; transnational movements and communications.
- Tel: 0207 898 4696
- Email: dm27@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 575
- Office Hours: Mondays 2-4pm
Members
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Member
International politics of West Asia; Iranian foreign and domestic politics; Critical theories of international relations; US foreign policy in the ‘third world’; Islamic political and intellectual history. - Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4747
- Email: aa106@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 216
- Office Hours: 5-7 Tuesdays
Nadje Al-Ali
Member
Women & gender in the Middle East; women’s movements and feminism in Middle East; secularism and Islamism; transnational migration, diaspora mobilization; gendering violence, war and peace; history of Iraqi women; impact of sanctions, war and occupation on Iraqi women, Iraq.
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4547
- Email: n.s.al-ali@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 452A
- Office Hours: Tuesday 10am-12pm
Atef Alshaer
Member
Linguistics, Arabic Literature and history and Politics of the Arab World.
- Tel: 020 7898 4675
- Email: aa134@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4416
William Gervase Clarence-Smith
Member
History of Islam, sexuality, diasporas, slavery, stimulants, rubber, livestock and textiles, with special reference to Maritime South East Asia - Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4608
- Email: wc2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 313
- Office Hours: Term 2 - Thursdays 3-5pm
Ayman El-Desouky
Member
Comparative Literature, 19th and 20th Century Arabic Literature, hermeneutics, modern philosophy and theory.
- Tel: 020 7898 4355
- Email: ad48@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 423
- On Sabbatical:Term 1 2012
Benjamin Fortna
Member
Modern Middle Eastern History, the late Ottoman empire, late Ottoman education and literature - Tel: 020 7898 4632
- Email: bf7@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 300
- Office Hours: Mondays 2-3pm
Nelida Fuccaro
Member
Modern Middle Eastern history, especially Iraq, Persian Gulf and Syria; urban history; history of violence; social and cultural history of oil ; colonialism, ethnicity and nationalism; Kurdish history - Tel: 020 7898 4618
- Email: nf2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 308
- Office Hours: All Year - Mondays 2-4pm (during term time)
Marlé Hammond
Member
Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature & Culture.
- Tel: 020 7898 4518
- Email: mh93@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 438
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 13:00-14:00/Thursdays 12:00-13:00
Salwa Ismail
Member
Urban politics and state-society relations in the Middle East; the study of Islamism; Islamist movements; modern Arab and Islamic political thought; political ethnography.
- Tel: 020 7898 4740
- Email: si1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 204
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-5pm
Laleh Khalili
Member
- Tel: 020 7898 4735
- Email: lk4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 210
- Office Hours: 10-12 Tuesdays
Mushtaq Khan
Member
South and South East Asia: institutional economics and political economy; the economics of rent seeking, corruption and patron-client networks; late industrialisation and the state - Tel: 020 7898 4546
- Email: mk100@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 284
- Office Hours: Mondays 2pm - 4pm
Magnus Marsden
Member
Social anthropology of Pakistan, Central Asia and the Middle East; anthropology of religion (especially Islam), the interaction between religious and political transformations within and beyond South Asia and the Muslim world, as well as the study of transnational identity formations.
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4491
- Email: mm101@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 588
- On Sabbatical:Research Leave 2012-13
Corinna Mullin
Member
International Relations Theory, Political Islam, Politics of the Middle East
- Email: cm39@soas.ac.uk
Wen-Chin Ouyang
Member
Classical and modern Arabic literature and culture, with emphasis on narrative and storytelling, comparative narratology and critical theory, and gendered thinking and discourse. - Tel: 020 7898 4348
- Email: wo@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 435
- Office Hours: Mondays 11:00-12:00/Wednesdays 12:00-13:00
Marina Pyrovolaki
Member
Arabic Historiography (Popular/Scholarly), Crusades, Arab-Byzantine Relations, Early Islamic History.
- Tel: 020 7898 4605
- Email: mp52@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 306
- Office Hours: Tuesday 5-6pm (or by appointment)
Sahar Taghdisi Rad
Member
International Development Consultant; and Researcher at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London
- Email: sahar.rad2@gmail.com
Elaheh Rostami-Povey
Member
Iran, Afghanistan and the Middle East, in particular gender issues in Iran. Women’s employment, feminism, war, conflict, diaspora, Iran in the Middle East.
- Email: ep2@soas.ac.uk
Ruba Salih
Member
Gender, Islam and modernity in the Middle East and Europe; Islamic feminism, secular and religious women’s movements in the Middle East, transnational migration and gender; multiculturalism and citizenship; Islam in Europe, globalization; disapora and refugee studies; the Palestine question.
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4245
- Email: ruba.salih@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 471
- Office Hours: Thursday 1-3pm
Iain Scobbie
Member
Public international law, especially its relation to the Israel/Palestine situation; theory of international law; international humanitarian law; the law and practice of the International Court of Justice
- Tel: 020 7898 4221
- Email: is17@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4405
- Office Hours: Monday 15.00-16.00 (T1) Tuesday 15.00-16.00 (T2)
Amrita Shodhan
Member
- Tel: 020 7898 4627
- Email: as115@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 311
- Office Hours: All Year - Wed 1:30-3:30pm (during term time)
Stefan Sperl
Member
Classical Arabic literature; medieval Arabic popular literature; court poetry and oral literature; refugee studies and refugee-related issues - Tel: 020 7898 4338
- Email: ss6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 433
- On Sabbatical:Term 1 2012
Charles R H Tripp
Member
Middle East: states and ideologies, war, Islamic political thought
- Tel: 020 7898 4748
- Email: ct2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 214
- Office Hours: Wednesday 10.30-12.30, 13.30-15.00
Hanan Toukan
Member
Politics and society of the Arab World; The politics of aid; 'cultural diplomacy', contemporary cultural production; professionalisation and NGO-isation of the field of culture.
- Email: ht14@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 221
- Office Hours: Thursdays: 1-2pm
Yair Wallach
Member
- Tel: 020 7898 4337
- Email: yw11@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 415
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 16:00-17:00 / Wednesdays 14:00-15:00
Lynn Welchman
Member
Islamic law; law of the Middle East and North Africa, especially comparative family law; human rights; gender and law, Palestine and the law - Tel: 020 7898 4672
- Email: lw10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 229
- Office Hours: Tuesday 10.15 - 12.15 terms 2 and 3
- On Sabbatical:Term 1 2012-13
Associate Members
Hani Albasoos
Associate Member
PhD (2005) in International Relations from the University of Bradford. Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Islamic University of Gaza, political analyst and leading member of a number of Palestinian academic and research institutions.
- Email: hani.adam@yahoo.com
Waleed Al-Modallal
Associate Member
Associate Professor of Political Science, Islamic University of Gaza. Former dean of the Southern Branch of the Islamic University and the founder of Strategic Studies Institute (MERAS).
- Email: w.modallal@gmail.com
Luca Andriani
Associate Member
Lecturer in Economics at the Department of Management, Birkbeck College, University of London
Research Interests: Informal institutions, trust , corruption, social capital and socio-economic development
Profile Page: https://sites.google.com/site/landriani75/
- Email: luca.andriani@bbk.ac.uk
Fernando Resende
Associate Member
Study of narratives of conflicts and diasporic movements; theory and philosophy of communication; journalism; culture; comparative media and documentary studies; critical cultural studies and the impact of geopolitical discursive relations (narratives and conflicts) on the imaged geographies of East/West and, in particular, the imagination of Palestine and Africa by Brazil and England (XIX and XX).
- Email: fr5@soas.ac.uk
Tom Selwyn
Associate Member
Anthropology of Tourism, hospitality, imagery and semiotics, Palestinian pilgrimage and cultural industries, Israeli landscape, borderlands, Indian caste system, political anthropology, post-conflict development, coasts, EC cultural policy in Mediterranean and Balkans, libraries.
- Email: ts14@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 590
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 12-2pm or by Email Appointment
Suha Shakkour
Associate Member
Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Derby where my teaching interests are primarily in ethnic and religious minorities. My PhD (University of St Andrews) was a study of the integration/assimilation patterns of Christian Palestinians in Britain, and my current research considers the re-imagining of appropriated homes in Palestine as sacred sites.
- Email: s.shakkour@derby.ac.uk
Hilary Wise
Associate Member
SOAS alumna, former Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London, currently Director of Publications for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (www.palestinecampaign.org).
- Email: hilarywise99@gmail.com
PhD Student Associate Members
Luigi Achilli
PhD Student Associate Member
- Email: 208947@soas.ac.uk
- Office Hours: 11am-12pm (room v215), 4-5pm (room v217)
Seyed Ali Alavi
PhD Student Associate Member
My main researches and interests are around Middle East Politics, European (Central EU) and British and American Politics. Also I am interested in cultural issues and cultural identity politics. I speak English, Arabic, Farsi (Persian), Azeri, Kurdish and some understanding of Hebrew.
- Email: 221666@soas.ac.uk
Ali Fathollah-Nejad
PhD Student Associate Member
International relations; 21st-century world order; diplomacy; peace and conflict studies.
- Email: afn@soas.ac.uk
Katherine Natanel
PhD Student Associate Member
Katherine received her BA in Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS.
