Staff
Head of Department
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor (Arabic)
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor (non-Arabic)
Undergraduate Tutors (Arabic)
Mr Mohamed I Said (Year 1)
Dr Ayman El-Desouky (Year 4)
Undergraduate Tutor (Non-Arabic)
Research Tutor
Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem
King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies
Qur’an, Hadith, Tafsir; Islam in society; classical and modern Arabic literature
- Tel: 020 7898 4325
- Email: ha4@soas.ac.uk
Andrew R George
Professor of Babylonian
Cuneiform and Ancient Mesopotamian studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4335
- Email: ag5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 414
Sabry Hafez
Research Professor of Modern Arabic
Modern Arabic literature, drama and film studies; comparative literature.
- Tel: 020 7898 4327
- Email: sh6@soas.ac.uk
B George Hewitt
Professor of Caucasian Languages
Caucasian languages (especially South and North-West Caucasian) and linguistics; language work
- Tel: 020 7898 4332
- Email: gh2@soas.ac.uk
Bruce Ingham
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
Hugh N Kennedy
Professor of Arabic
Medieval history of Arabic-speaking lands.
- Tel: 020 7898 4251
- Email: hk1@soas.ac.uk
Tudor Parfitt
Professor of Modern Jewish Studies
History of the Jews in Africa and Asia; Judaizing movements; Modern Hebrew language and literature
- Tel: 020 7898 4337
- Email: tp@soas.ac.uk
Nicholas Sims-Williams
Professorial Research Associate
Old and Middle Iranian languages; Indo-European comparative philology; history of Central Asia; identification and reading of inscriptions in Iranian languages; history of peoples, languages and religions along the Silk Road.
- Tel: 020 7898 4333
- Email: ns5@soas.ac.uk
Colin Shindler
Professor of Israeli Studies
History and politics of Israel; Zionism
- Tel: 020 7898 4358
- Email: cs52@soas.ac.uk
Wen-Chin Ouyang
Reader in Arabic Literature
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
Bengisu Rona
Senior Lecturer in Turkish Studies
Gender and social development in Turkey; Turkish media; literary trends in 19th and 20th century; linguistic change in Turkey
- Tel: 020 7898 4352
- Email: br2@soas.ac.uk
Stefan Sperl
Senior Lecturer in Arabic
Head of Department
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
Katherine P Zebiri
Senior Lecturer in Arabic
Arabic language and literature, modern Islamic studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4342
- Email: kz@soas.ac.uk
Shirin Akiner
Research Associate
Politics in Central Asia; gender issues in Central Asia; Islam in Central Asia; Islam, ethnicity, nation building, political change and security in Central Asia.
- Email: sa7@soas.ac.uk
George Dedes
Lecturer in Turkish
Early Anatolian Turkish; Ottoman language and literature; Ottoman history; Turkish-Greek relations; modern Turkish culture
- Tel: 020 7898 4344
- Email: gd5@soas.ac.uk
Ayman El-Desouky
Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, 19th and 20th Century Arabic Literature, hermeneutics, modern philosophy and theory.
- Tel: 020 7898 4355
- Email: ad48@soas.ac.uk
Narguess Farzad
Senior Fellow in Persian
Persian language and literature. Organiser of SOAS-Cambridge Undergraduate workshops
- Tel: 020 7898 4346
- Email: nf1@soas.ac.uk
Karima Laachir
Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies
Literary and cultural studies: postcolonial studies, diaspora studies and comparative literature
- Tel: 020 7898 4336
- Email: kl19@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 365
Nima Mina
Senior Lecturer in Persian and Iranian Studies
Classical and Modern Persian literature, Orientalism in 18th-20th century Europe, Middle Eastern minority writers in Europe, Diaspora studies, music performance, translation studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4315
- Email: nm46@soas.ac.uk
Daniel Schwemer
Reader in Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Ancient Near Eastern studies, especially cuneiform
- Tel: 020 7898 4328
- Email: ds11@soas.ac.uk
Mustafa Shah
Lecturer in Islamic Studies
The early Arabic linguistic tradition; classical Islamic theology and jurisprudence
- Tel: 020 7898 4341
- Email: ms99@soas.ac.uk
Mohamed I Said
Senior Lector in Arabic
Arabic language teaching
- Tel: 020 7898 4353
- Email: ms15@soas.ac.uk
Tamar Drukker
Lector in Hebrew
Modern Hebrew; medieval literature
- Tel: 020 7898 4347
- Email: td4@soas.ac.uk
Nada Elzeer
Senior Lector in Arabic
Arabic language and translation
- Tel: 020 7898 4340
- Email: ne5@soas.ac.uk
Sajida Fawzi
Teacher of Arabic
Arabic language teaching; Jewish/Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, Sufism, Judaeo-Arabic
- Email: sf6@soas.ac.uk
Abdul Hakim Ibrahim Al-Matroudi
Senior Visting Lecturer in Arabic
- Tel: 02078984303
- Email: aa88@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 416
Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev
Senior Teaching Fellow in Armenian History and Culture
Received PhD from the EPHE (Sorbonne) in 2002. Before coming to SOAS, taught Biblical languages and the History of Oriental Christianities in the Universities of Rome, Montpellier and Durham. The monograph Arméniens et Byzantins à l’époque de Photius (Peeters 2004) has been awarded the Charles et Marguerite Diehl Prize by the French Academy. Contributed to the Cambridge History of Christianity and other collective volumes and leading international journals in Armenian and orientalist studies.
- Email: lazarev@soas.ac.uk
Krikor Moskofian
Senior Teaching Fellow in West Armenian Language and Literature
West Armenian language and literature
Johnny Cheung
Research Assistant (funded by the AHRC)
Bactrian palaeography project (funded by the British Academy)
- Email: jc66@soas.ac.uk
Christina Phillips
British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Modern Arabic literature, Comparative Literature, Gender and Postcolonial Studies
- Email: cp32@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 453
