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 Media in Development and International Journalisms Dr Somnath Batabyal South Asia with a focus on India; transnational news spheres; Development discourses and its articulation in mainstream and alternate news forums; environmental politics.
Lecturer Dr Dounia Mahlouly Dr. Mahlouly lectures and is the course co-convenor for “International Political Communication” and “Global Media and Post-National Communication”.
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.
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.
Director, SOAS Middle East Institute Professor Lina Khatib Dr Lina Khatib is an internationally renowned authority on the Middle East and Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute.
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.
Professor of Development Studies and International Relations Professor Gilbert Achcar 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.
Professor in International Relations Professor Stephen Chan, OBE Politics of southern Africa, normative values and non-Western methodologies
Professor of Film and Screen Studies Professor Lindiwe Dovey Decolonial feminist approaches to filmmaking, film cultures and screen media industries globally; practice/artistic research through film; feminist and ethical leadership in the arts and academia; digital transformations in screen media production, distribution, exhibition, curation, and spectatorship; film festivals and film curating
Senior Lecturer in Persian Studies (Education) Narguess Farzad Persian language and literature. Organiser of SOAS-Cambridge Undergraduate workshops
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Religion and Politics Dr Sian Hawthorne Narrativity; Cultural Memory; Religion and Gender; Feminist Historiography; Postcolonial theory; Postsecularism and gender; Intellectual history in the study of religions.
Reader in Contemporary Japanese Culture Dr Griseldis Kirsch Contemporary Japanese culture, with particular interest in Japanese media and popular culture, representations of 'Otherness', social phenomena and war memory.
Research Associate Dr Kevin Latham China: Hong Kong and Guangdong Province (PRC) Chinese media, newspapers, television, journalism, popular culture, Internet and telecommunications, theatre, anthropological knowledge, practice and performance
Dr Dolores P Martinez Japan, maritime anthropology, religion, gender, anthropology of tourism, mass media, local and global film traditions
Professor in Diplomacy and Strategy Professor Dan Plesch 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.
Reader in the History of Africa Dr Marie Rodet Modern West African history, especially social and gender history of Western Mali, history of West African slavery and emancipation.
Reader in the Theory and Politics of Development Dr Subir Sinha South Asia; social movements; civil society; the environment; institutions; agrarian questions; Marxist and postcolonial theory; Social theory in Development studies.
Emeritus Professor Charles R H Tripp Middle East: states and ideologies, war, Islamic political thought
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
Professor in the Study of Religions and World Philosophies Professor Cosimo Zene 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, world philosophies.
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies Professor Mark Hobart South East Asia, Indonesia, Bali: cultural and media studies; philosophical issues and eurocentrism in the human sciences; media and performance.
