Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human security; art, poetry, emotions as languages for global peace; political/social psychology; the global politics of power and resistance; global thought and comparative philosophies; Iran, East-West relations, West Asia and North Africa.
Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Iranian Studies Dr Seyed Ali Alavi MA Iranian Studies, Critical Perspective on Palestine Studies, Re-mapping Area Studies, Decolonising Otherness. Cultural, economic and political dynamics underpinning China's relations with the Middle East, with a special emphasis on nations such as Iran and the Arab States in West Asia.
Senior Lecturer in Persian Studies (Education) Narguess Farzad Persian language and literature. Organiser of SOAS-Cambridge Undergraduate workshops
Reader in the History of Architecture & Archaeology of the Islamic Middle East Dr Simon O'Meara Islamic architecture and urbanism; sociological dimensions of the art and architecture of North Africa, especially Morocco; architectural and visual theory; Islamic studies.
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Orkideh Behrouzan Orkideh Behrouzan is a physician, medical anthropologist and the author of Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran.
Emeritus Reader Dr Gabriele vom Bruck Middle East with emphasis on the Arabian Peninsular (especially Yemen): elites, biography, memory, religion and politics
Professor of the History of Islamic Art Professor Anna Contadini Arab and early Persian painting and the arts of the Islamic book in general, including the production of manuscripts of the Qur'an; art and material culture of the Islamic world; Fatimid art and architecture; the arts of Islamic Spain; artistic contacts between the Islamic World and Europe; aspects of contemporary Islamic art.
Dr Heather Elgood, MBE Dr Heather Elgood is the Course Director of the Diploma in Asian Art. She is a specialist in Persian, Jain, Sultanate and Mughal manuscript painting as well as the ritual arts of Hinduism.
Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith History of Islam, sexuality, diasporas, slavery, stimulants, rubber, livestock and textiles, with special reference to Maritime South East Asia
Professor of Arabic Professor Hugh N Kennedy Early Islamic History from 600 to 1100, Arabic historiography, Islamic archaeology, historical geography of the Middle East, castle building in the Middle East, history of al-Andalus (Muslim Spain and Portugal)
Professor in Diplomacy and Strategy Professor Dan Plesch Professor Plesch is Professor of Diplomacy and Strategy at SOAS University of London and is a 'door tenant' at the legal chambers of 9 Bedford Row, in London.
Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism Professor Almut Hintze Professor Hintze takes an interest in all aspects of Zoroastrianism, the religion of pre-Islamic Iran.
Emeritus Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams Iranian and Central Asian philology; Christian and Manichaean texts from Central Asia.
Emeritus Reader in Zoroastrianism. Dr Sarah Stewart Dr Sarah Stewart is Honorary Senior Fellow for the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies. Research interests include Zoroastriansm, orality and the oral transmission of texts, Zoroastrian living tradition in Iran and India.
Emeritus Professor Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif Architecture of Cairo, the art and archaeology of Turkey, Iran and the Near East
Associate Member Professor Helen Giunashvili Helen Giunashvili is a researcher at G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Ilia State University in Tbilisi and is also affiliated to the Graduate School of the Methodology of the Humanities in Paris.
Associate Member Dr Mishana Hoss Dr Mishana Hoss is an International Relations scholar and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing at the University of Oxford, and an academic affiliate of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights.
Professorial Research Associate Dr Ziba Mir-Hosseini Islam and feminism; Islamic family law, politics of gender and family law in Iran and Morocco
Associate Member Dr Yui Kanda Dr. Yui Kanda is an Assistant Professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Research Associate Dr Renate Söhnen-Thieme Sanskrit language and literature; classical Indian religions; folklore and music of Baltistan
Associate Member Dr Kota Suechika Dr. Kota Suechika is a scholar of Middle Eastern politics, Professor at the College of International Relations, and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (CMEIS) at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan.
Emeritus Professor Professor Richard Tapper Lecturer, Reader and Professor in SOAS 1967-2004; fieldwork in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey; published on pastoral nomadism, ethnic and tribal minorities and the state, material cultures, culinary cultures, anthropology of Islam, Iranian Cinema.
Research Associate Dr Massoumeh Torfeh Massoumeh Torfeh, has been appointed UN Director of Strategic Communication and Spokesperson for Afghanistan and is a former senior producer in BBC World Service, specializes on the politics and media of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia.
Emeritus Professor of Musicology of the Middle East Professor Owen Wright Music of the Islamic Middle East; historical musicology
Research Associate Dr Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad Media in the Middle East with particular focus on Iran; diasporas and transnational media; islamophobia; shi’i Islam in the West; third Cinema; big data and digital methods.
