Reader in Public Law Dr Nimer Sultany Public Law; Legal and Political Theory; Comparative Constitutionalism; Public International Law and Human Rights Law.
Director, Centre for Global Media and Communication, School of Law Professor Dina Matar Middle East, especially Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, international political communication; media and conflict; critical global media studies; activism and media; social movements; memory studies and oral history; diasporas and ethnic minorities.
Lecturer in Politics of the Middle East Dr Nathaniel George Politics and history of the modern Arab world, particularly Lebanon, Palestine, and the mashriq; global and international history; revolution and counterrevolution; imperialism and colonialism; sectarianism, racism, and colonial social difference; the United States in the world.
Advisory Committee Member Dr Adam Hanieh Adam Hanieh is an Advisory Committee member of the Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS, and was previously Professor of Development Studies at SOAS.
Advisory Committee Member Professor Izzat Darwazeh Professor Izzat Darwazeh is an Advisory Committee member of the Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS.
Professor of Development Studies and International Relations Professor Gilbert Achcar Globalisation, Global Power Relations, MENA, Sociology of Religion Sociology of Revolution.
Senior Lecturer in Global Development, Peace & Conflict Dr Althea-Maria Rivas Humanitarian intervention, post-conflict reconstruction, the politics of global development, everyday violence in post-conflict settings, gender (in)security, violence and development, race, racism and development, peace and justice, emotion and conflict, the relationship between peace, forgiveness and justice, black and indigenous feminisms, feminist and decolonial theory and pedagogy, postcolonial conversations on resistance and development, research methods and ethics. Regional focus: Central Asia, West and East Africa.
Reader in Economics Dr Hannah Bargawi Economic development, Macroeconomic and Social policies, Social reproduction, Feminist political economy, Care, Feminist economics, Economics pedagogy.
Emeritus Professor (former Director, LMEI) Dr Hassan Hakimian Human Resources; Demography; Trade Policy & Regional Integration; Energy and Natural Resources with reference to the MENA region.
Member Dr Sahar Rad Dr Sahar T. Rad is a development economist focusing on the political economy of international development, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. She holds a PhD in development economics from SOAS. Her areas of research and work include international trade and investment, conflict and economic development, political transition and economic transformation, political economy of institutions, and the global development architecture. Dr Rad has taught international economics, political economy and development economics at King's College London, SOAS and the University of Westminster, and has also worked as a senior economist in several international development organisations, including the United Nations, the International Labour Organisation, and the African Development Bank.
Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith History of Islam, sexuality, diasporas, slavery, stimulants, rubber, livestock and textiles, with special reference to Maritime South East Asia
Senior Teaching Fellow Dr Amrita Shodhan Nineteenth century transformations in western India, gender, caste and community in law and governance, histories of partition India/Palestine.
Lecturer in the History of the Middle East and Africa Dr Hengameh Ziai Postcolonial Theory, Critical Political Economy, Islamic Studies, African Studies, Middle East Studies, Ottoman History, Legal History, Science and Technology Studies, Histories of Capitalism, Anthropologies of Debt and Neoliberalism.
Professor Rebecca Gould Distinguished Research Professor Rebecca Gould brings research on comparative poetics beyond Europe to SOAS
Professor of Law with particular reference to the Middle East and North Africa Professor Lynn Welchman Islamic law; law of the Middle East and North Africa, especially comparative family law; human rights; gender and law, Palestine and the law
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.
Reader in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture Dr Marlé Hammond Reader in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture.
Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature Professor Wen-chin Ouyang Classical and modern Arabic literature and culture, with emphasis on narrative and storytelling, comparative narratology and critical theory, and gendered thinking and discourse.
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East Dr Reem Abou-El-Fadl Nationalism in the Middle East; Foreign Policy Making in the Middle East; Egyptian Politics and History; Turkish Politics and History; Arab-Israeli Conflict
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.
Professor in Politics of the Middle East Professor Salwa Ismail Urban politics and state-society relations in the Middle East; the study of Islamism; Islamist movements; modern Arab and Islamic political thought; political ethnography.
Lecturer Dr Randa Alami Middle East, Finance, Indebtedness, Social Policy/Justice, Gender, Health, Poverty, Inequality.
Associate Member Dr Yaser Alashqar Dr. Yaser Alashqar is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Independent College Dublin in Ireland. His teaching and research focus on law and dispute resolution, including mediation, negotiation, international arbitration and conflict analysis.
Dr Atef Alshaer Linguistics, Arabic Literature and history and Politics of the Arab World. Lecturer in Arabic Language and Culture at the University of Westminster.
Associate Member Dr Luca Andriani Lecturer in Economics at the Department of Management, Birkbeck College, University of LondonResearch Interests: Informal institutions, trust , corruption, social capital and socio-economic developmentProfile Page: https://sites.google.com/site/landriani75/
Associate Member Dr Feryal Awan Feryal Awan is a Lecturer in Media and Postcolonial Studies at the Institute of Education, UCL. Her work examines the political, cultural and socioeconomic impact of colonialism on children in Palestine and the UK.
Associate Member Dr Lena El-Malak Dr. Lena El-Malak is a commercial technology and data privacy attorney, as well as an expert in public international law.
Associate Member Dr Toufic Haddad Toufic Haddad holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London. He is co-author of Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians and the US War on Terror (2007) and previously worked as a journalist, editor and researcher in Jerusalem, including for different UN bodies.
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.
Associate Member Dr Anne Irfan Dr Anne Irfan is Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at UCL. Her work examines colonial legacies in displacement and bordering practices, focusing on Palestinian refugee history and the modern Middle East.
Associate Member Dr Lina Khamis Lina Edward Khamis is an Assistant Professor in political science, human rights and democracy in the Department of Humanities at Bethlehem University. She has extensive work experience in the field of culture at UNESCO in Amman, Jordan.
Associate Member Dr Karma Nabulsi Dr Karma Nabulsi is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, and Fellow in Politics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Associate Member Dr Bernard Regan Bernard’s research is focused on Palestine and the British Mandate. His book “The Balfour Declaration: Empire, Mandate and Resistance in Palestine” was published in 2017.
Professorial Research Associate Professor Tom Selwyn Anthropology of tourism, pilgrimage, cultural heritage; the Mediterranean, in particular Palestine/Israel.
Associate Member Mrs Nibal Thawabteh Nibal Thawabteh has been the Director of the Media Development Center at Birzeit University since 2008 and has worked in media training and production in Palestine for more than ten years. She is the Editor in Chief for Al-Hal newspaper and she is the board chairwoman of Ma’an Palestinian News Agency. Nibal was awarded an international Women Of Courage award in 2008 (USA) and has published several books, she holds a Masters degree in management and educational training.
Emeritus Professor Charles R H Tripp Middle East: states and ideologies, war, Islamic political thought
Associate Member Dr Hilary Wise 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).
Centre for Palestine Studies SOAS Palestine Studies Book Series The SOAS Palestine Studies Series is edited by the Centre for Palestine Studies and published by I.B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. The first Western academic series entirely dedicated to this topic, SOAS Palestine Studies draws from a variety of disciplinary fields.
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