SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Hassan Hakimian

MBI Al Jaber Director

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

Louise Hosking

Executive Officer

• Tel: 020 7898 4330
• Email: lh2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: M110

Sarah Johnson

Co-ordinating Editor, The Middle East in London Magazine

Sarah Johnson is Co-ordinating Editor of The Middle East in London, the LMEI's bi-monthly magazine. After studying French and Spanish at Newcastle University, Sarah worked as a journalist in Vietnam for two and half years. After moving back to the UK, she completed a Journalism MA at City University London and has since done work for a range of local and national titles.

• Email: sj39@soas.ac.uk
• Room: B318

Vincenzo Paci-Delton

Events and Magazine Co-ordinator

• Tel: 020 7898 4490
• Email: vp6@soas.ac.uk
• Room: M110

Valentina Zanardi

Administrative Assistant

• Email: vz1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: B318

Shahla Geramipour

Designer, Middle East in London Magazine

Graphic designer for the LMEI's bi-monthly magazine The Middle East in London.

• Email: sg66@soas.ac.uk

Aisa Martinez

Research Fellow for the Art of Heritage Project

• Tel: 020 7898 4891
• Email: am116@soas.ac.uk
• Room: B318

Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem, OBE

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4325
• Email: ha4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 427
• Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-13:00/Wednesdays 12:00-13:00

Gilbert Achcar

Member

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

Fiona Adamson

Member

International Relations Theory; International Security; Migration and Diaspora Mobilization; Globalisation and Global Governance; Transnational Identity Movements

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4683
• Email: fa33@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 212
• Office Hours: Weds. 1-3, or by appointment

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4747
• Email: aa106@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 216
• Office Hours: 5-7 Tuesdays

Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb

• Tel: 020 7898 4152
• Email: da4@soas.ac.uk

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

Abdul Hakim Ibrahim Al-Matroudi

Member

Islamic  Law

• Tel: 020 7898 4303
• Email: aa88@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 416

Randa Alami

Member

• Email: ra38@soas.ac.uk

Tony Allan

Member

Analysis of water resources in semi-arid regions and the role of global systems in ameliorating local and regional water deficits. Established the concept of Virtual Water. Was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize in 2008 in recognition of his contribution to water science.

• Email: ta1@soas.ac.uk

Ahmad Alkhashem

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4208
• Email: aa40@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 434
• Office Hours: Mondays 14:00-15:00 / Tuesdays 14:00-15:00

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

Peter Austin

Member

Typology, morpho-syntax, language documentation and description, historical linguistics, Lexical-Functional grammar, computer-aided linguistic analysis, Austronesian languages, Australian Aboriginal languages

• Tel: 020 7898 4586
• Email: pa2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 363
• Office Hours: Tuesdays 14:00-15:00/Wednesdays 14:00-15:00

Mashood Baderin

Member

Islamic Law, International and Comparative Human Rights Law, Public International Law, Human Rights & Islamic Law, especially interaction between International Law, Human Rights Law, and Islamic Law in Muslim States. Appointed as Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan by the UN Human Rights Council at its 19th Session on 23rd March 2012.

• Tel: 020 7898 4715
• Email: mb78@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 220
• Office Hours: by email appointment
• On Sabbatical:2012-13

Doris Behrens-Abouseif

Member

Architecture of Cairo, the art and archaeology of Turkey, Iran and the Near East

• Tel: 020 7898 4455
• Email: da30@soas.ac.uk
• Room: B303
• Office Hours: Wednesdays 5-6pm

Teresa Bernheimer

Member

Islamic History to 1200; social history of elites in early Islam, especially 'Alid family; documentary and material evidence from Late Antiquity to early Islam; origins and development of Shi'ism; early Islamic Iran

• Tel: 020 7898 4605
• Email: tb31@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 306
• Office Hours: Mondays 3:30-5pm

Helen Blatherwick

Member

Classical Arabic literature, Popular literature, Comparative literature

• Tel: 020 7898 4385
• Email: hb20@soas.ac.uk

Elisa Cavatorta

Member

• Email: ec21@soas.ac.uk
• Room: LIDC 405

William Gervase Clarence-Smith

Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4608
• Email: wc2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 313
• Office Hours: Term 2 - Thursdays 3-5pm

Anna Contadini

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4458
• Email: ac24@soas.ac.uk
• Room: B306
• Office Hours: All Year (during term time) - Thursdays 2-3pm

Bhavna Davé

Member

Kazakhstan: politics of language, ethnicity and nationalism in post-Soviet countries

• Tel: 020 7898 4734
• Email: bd4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 224
• Office Hours: 2-4pm Wednesdays

François de Blois

Member

François de Blois has published extensively on Iranian and Semitic languages and literatures, as well as on the social and religious history of the Near East and Central Asia in pre-modern times. His books include "Persian literature, a bio-bibliographical survey. Volume V: Poetry of the pre-Mongol period", second, revised edition, 2004.

• Email: fb2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 343

George Dedes

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4344
• Email: gd5@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 424
• Office Hours: Fridays 15:00-17:00

Tamar Drukker

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4347
• Email: td4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 446
• Office Hours: Tuesdays 13:00-14:00 and by appointment

Sorour Dundon

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4365
• Email: sd14@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 420

Ian D Edge

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4665
• Email: ie1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 241
• Office Hours: Tuesday 4:00 - 6:00

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

Heather Elgood

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4445
• Email: he2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: B312

Nada Elzeer

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4340
• Email: ne5@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 432
• Office Hours: On leave 2012/13

Narguess Farzad

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4346
• Email: nf1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 440
• Office Hours: Mondays 13:30 -14:30, Wednesdays 13:00- 14:00

Bassam Fattouh

Member

Management in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), managerial systems and management of renewable and non-renewable resources in the Middle East (MSc), and Islamic banking and finance.

• Tel: 020 7898 4053
• Email: bf11@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 526
• Office Hours: By Appointment

Benjamin Fortna

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4632
• Email: bf7@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 300
• Office Hours: Mondays 2-3pm

Nicholas H D Foster

• Tel: 020 7898 4666
• Email: nf4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 225
• Office Hours: 4.30 - 6.30 Wednesday

Nelida Fuccaro

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4618
• Email: nf2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 308
• Office Hours: All Year - Mondays 2-4pm (during term time)

Andrew R George

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4335
• Email: ag5@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 414
• Office Hours: E-mail for appointment
• On Sabbatical:2012-13

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

Adam Hanieh

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

Jane Harrigan

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4537
• Email: jh66@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 281
• Office Hours: By appointment only

Jan-Peter Hartung

Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4383
• Email: Jh74@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 333
• Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:30-2:30pm

B George Hewitt

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4332
• Email: gh2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 430
• Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00 -12:00 /Thursdays 11:00-12:00

Catherine Hezser

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4633
• Email: ch12@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 335
• Office Hours: Thursdays 10-11am

Almut Hintze

Member

Dr Hintze takes an interest in all aspects of Zoroastrianism, the religion of pre-Islamic Iran.

• Tel: 020 7898 4598
• Email: ah69@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 334
• Office Hours: Tuesdays 12-1pm (and by Appointment)

Konrad Hirschler

Member

Cultural and social history of the premodern Middle East; historiography; history of reading; Crusades in the Middle East

• Tel: 020 7898 4602
• Email: kh20@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 324
• Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-4pm (and by appointment)

Stephen Hopgood

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4738
• Email: sh18@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 209
• Office Hours: Wednesdays 10am-12pm

Erica Hunter

Member

Eastern Christianity; Syriac Christianity in the Middle East, with particular reference to Iraq; Syriac Christianity in medieval Central Asia and China

• Tel: 020 7898 4663
• Email: eh9@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 339
• Office Hours: All Year - Fridays 11am-1pm (during term time)

Bruce Ingham

Member

General descriptive linguistics, Arabic, Persian, North American Indian languages, dialects and oral literature of the Arabian Peninsula - in particular the dialects of the Arabian bedouin, covering the dialects of the Al Dhafir, Mutair, Al Murrah and Rwalah tribes; Lakota (Siouan), Cree (Algonquian)

• Email: bi1@soas.ac.uk

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

Massoud Karshenas

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4535
• Email: mk@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 268
• Office Hours: Tuesdays 12pm - 2pm

Hugh N Kennedy

Member

Medieval history of Arabic-speaking lands.

• Tel: 020 7898 4251
• Email: hk1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 436
• Office Hours: Mondays 14:00-15:00 / Thursdays 11:30-12:30

Laleh Khalili

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4735
• Email: lk4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 210
• Office Hours: 10-12 Tuesdays

Geoffrey King

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4447
• Email: gk3@soas.ac.uk
• Room: B304
• Office Hours: Wednesday, 13.30-14.30

Karima Laachir

Member

Literary and cultural studies: postcolonial studies, diaspora studies and comparative literature

• Tel: 020 7898 4336
• Email: kl19@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 365
• Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00-12:00

Mark Laffey

Member

International relations theory; international security; historical sociology; postcolonial theory; foreign policy analysis; U.S. foreign policy; ideas, culture and ideology

• Tel: 020 7898 4744
• Email: ml23@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 211
• Office Hours: Mondays 4-6pm (Term 1), Mondays 12-2pm

George Lane

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4285
• Email: gl1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 303
• Office Hours: All Year - Fridays 1:30-3:30pm (during term time)

Martin W Lau

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4657
• Email: ml1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 231
• Office Hours: Tuesday 10:30 - 12:30

Christopher Lucas

Member

Historical linguistics, Arabic linguistics, the syntax-semantics interface, pragmatics, philosophy of language, Dynamic Syntax, Relevance Theory, Arabic language, Afro-Asiatic languages

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4318
• Email: cl39@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 447
• Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00-12:00/Wednesdays 11:30-12:30

Makeen F Makeen

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4502
• Email: mm76@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 299a
• Office Hours: Thursday 14:00 - 16:00

Trevor H J Marchand

Academic Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4424
• Email: tm6@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 551
• On Sabbatical:Research Leave 2012-13

Thomas Marois

Member

Political Economy; Emerging finance capitalism; Privatization; Alternative development; Banking, finance, and development; Mexico, Turkey, other emerging capitalisms; State-capital-labour relations; State theory; Internationalization.

• Tel: 0207 898 4503
• Email: tm47@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 293
• Office Hours: Term 1 by appointment only, please email
• On Sabbatical:Terms 2 and 3 2012/2013

Dina Matar

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

Nima Mina

Member

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4315
• Email: nm46@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 422
• Office Hours: Tuesdays 13:00-15:00 / Thursdays 11:00-13:00

Shabnam Mirafzali

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4314
• Email: sa95@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 429

Simon Morley

Member

Teaching interests: international business, Persian administration, fiscal governance, Confucian governance, examining and supervising post-graduate research. Previously worked in Asia, Europe and USA.

• Tel: 020 7898 4848
• Email: sm104@soas.ac.uk

Krikor Moskofian

Member

West Armenian language and literature

• Email: km48@soas.ac.uk

Corinna Mullin

Member

International Relations Theory, Political Islam, Politics of the Middle East

• Email: cm39@soas.ac.uk

Matthew J Nelson

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4742
• Email: mn6@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 218
• Office Hours: Thurs. 3.30-5.30

Scott Newton

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4658
• Email: sn21@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 299
• Office Hours: Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

Caroline Osella

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4427
• Email: co6@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 582
• Office Hours: Term 2 - Mondays 3-5pm

Wen-Chin Ouyang

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4348
• Email: wo@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 435
• Office Hours: Mondays 11:00-12:00/Wednesdays 12:00-13:00

Dan Plesch

Member

Applied International Relations, weapons of mass destruction, diplomacy, globalisation and corporate accountability, globalisation and democracy, globalisation and energy, the role of international non-governmental organisations, the United Nations and the Nazis.

• Tel: 020 7898 4840
• Email: dp27@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 4426

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)

Elaheh Rostami-Povey

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

Mohamed I Said

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4353
• Email: ms15@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 425
• Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:30-13:30 / Thursdays 14:00-16:00

Muaadh Salih

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4354
• Email: ms1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 429
• Office Hours: Fridays 12:00-13:00 and 15:00-16:00

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)

Mustafa Shah

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4341
• Email: ms99@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 434a
• Office Hours: Wednesdays 14:30-15:30/Thursdays 15:00-16:00

Ayman Shihadeh

Member

Medieval Arabic Intellectual History; medieval Arabic philosophy; medieval Islamic theology, especially kalam; ethical theory; the Islamic manuscript tradition.

• Tel: 020 7898 4343
• Email: a.shihadeh@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 426
• On Sabbatical:Term 1 2012

Colin Shindler

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4358
• Email: cs52@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 418

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)

Nicholas Sims-Williams

Member

• Email: ns5@soas.ac.uk

Graham Smith

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4543
• Email: gs8@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 280
• On Sabbatical:2012/13

Renate Söhnen-Thieme

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4293
• Email: rs2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 376

Savitri Sperl

Member

• Email: ss107@soas.ac.uk

Stefan Sperl

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4338
• Email: ss6@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 433
• On Sabbatical:Term 1 2012

Annabelle Sreberny

Member

Middle East, especially Iran; gender and democratization; diasporic cultures; ‘small media’ and political change.

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4422
• Email: as98@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 587

Stefano Taglia

Member

Nationalism, Ottomanism, Science-Islam synthesis, Freemasonry

• Tel: 020 7898 4567
• Email: st42@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 311/511
• Office Hours: Thursdays 11am-1pm, room 311, or by appointment

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

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

Frans van Koppen

Member

• Email: fk11@soas.ac.uk

Leslie Vinjamuri

Member

International Relations Theory; International Organisation, Post-conflict Reconstruction and State building; the Politics of International Criminal Justice, and Civil Liberties and Human Rights in the war on terror.

• Tel: 020 7898 4758
• Email: lv@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 213
• Office Hours: 3-5pm Mondays

Gabriele vom Bruck

Member

Middle East with emphasis on the Arabian Peninsular (especially Yemen): elites, memory, religion and politics

• Tel: 020 7898 4408
• Email: gb19@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 585
• Office Hours: Term 2 - Mondays 3-5pm

Burzine K Waghmar

Member, London Middle East Institute

Indo-Iranian History, Historical Geography and Philology (Avestan, Old Persian, Parthian, Pahlavi, Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu, Pashto, Balochi and Kashmiri); Languages and Religions of Late Antiquity and the Silk Road (Bactrian, Khotanese, Sogdian, contacts among Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and early Islam); Pakistan studies (Ancient and early Medieval History, Dardic and Nuristani dialectology, ethnography and topography of NWFP, FATA, Northern Areas and Trans-Karakoram Tract); Pakistani minorities; HUMINT counterterrorism and linguistic analysis; South Asian Muslim psycho-sociology; Muslim non-Muslim relations (Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh).

• Email: bw3@soas.ac.uk
• Office Hours: Thursdays and Fridays

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

Mark Weeden

Member

Hittite, Akkadion language and literature in Syria

• Tel: 020 7898 4328
• Email: mw41@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 421
• Office Hours: Thursdays 11:00 - 12:00

Lynn Welchman

Member

• 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

Myriam Wissa

Member

Social and Economic History of Late Antique, Umayyad and 'Abbasid Egypt; Coptic Epigraphy and Codicology; Arabic Epigraphy; Coptic-Arabic Historiography; Papyrology; Interface between Text and Archaeology;  Prosopography; Monasticism (Coptic;Syriac and Garshuni literature); early Sufism (Dhu'l
Nun al-Misri); Religious and artistic interaction in early Islamic Egypt; the Decapolis, Syria, Iraq, Al-Andalus and Malta; Genizah archives: Jewish-Coptic and Jewish-Muslim interaction

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4271
• Email: mw56@soas.ac.uk

Abigail Wood

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4243
• Email: aw48@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 512
• Office Hours: On leave 2011-2013

Owen Wright

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4334
• Email: ow@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 503
• Office Hours: Tuesdays 11am-1pm

Katherine P Zebiri

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4342
• Email: kz@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 441
• On Sabbatical:Term 1 2012

Cosimo Zene

Member

Anthropology of religion, theory in the study of religions, continental philosophy, Gramsci and religion, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, minorities (Dalits), mysticism and heresy, non-Western Christianities, Mediterranean anthropology; South-Asia (India, Bangladesh), Sardinia.

• Tel: 020 7898 4783
• Email: zc@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 340
• Office Hours: Term 1 - Tuesdays 2:30-4pm / Thursdays 15:30-5pm

Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad

Member

• Email: sz10@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 587

Rafeef Ziadah

Member

• Email: rz2@soas.ac.uk

Vivian Ibrahim

Research Associate

Ethnic and religious relations (with emphasis on Copts and Muslims in Egypt); Nationalism; historiography; Political Islam in Europe and the Middle East;

• Email: vi2@soas.ac.uk

Mohammad Nafissi

Research Associate

Kathryn Spellman

Research Associate

Sami Zubaida

Research Associate

Mediterranean, Ottoman, culinary cultures, boundaries, nationalism, religion

Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology (Birkbeck College)

• Email: s.zubaida@bbk.ac.uk