Dr Hassan Hakimian

Director

Human Resources; Demography; Trade Policy & Regional Integration; Energy and Natural Resources with reference to the MENA region.

• Email: hh2@soas.ac.uk

Mr Aki Elborzi

Executive Officer

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4823 (SCI) / (0)20 7898 4448 (SMEI)
• Email: ae6@soas.ac.uk
• Room: S130 (SCI) / B404 (SMEI)
• Academic Support Hours: Tues and Fri (SCI) Mon, Wed, Thurs (SMEI)

Dr Lori Allen

Member

Palestine and the Middle East; human rights; nationalism; the United Nations; investigative commissions; political epistemologies; international law;  anthropology of violence; political anthropology; historical anthropology

• Tel: 020 7898 4491
• Email: la22@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 588
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 2.00 - 4.00pm

Dr Orkideh Behrouzan

Member of Board of Trustees

• Tel: 4695
• Email: ob8@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 589

Dr Katharina Graf

Member

Anthropology of food, gender, urban space, material culture, knowledge reproduction, food security, risk and uncertainty, Middle East and North Africa (especially Morocco).

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4414
• Email: kg38@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 569
• Academic Support Hours: Not Applicable
• On Sabbatical:Not Applicable

Dr 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
• Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 11.00 - 1.00pm

Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif

Member

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

• Email: da30@soas.ac.uk

Professor Anna Contadini

Member

• Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4458
• Email: ac24@soas.ac.uk
• Room: B306
• Academic Support Hours: Term 1: On Leave, Terms 2-3 TBC

Dr Heather Elgood, MBE

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4445
• Email: he2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: B310
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 2-5pm or by email appointment

Dr Simon O'Meara

Member

Islamic architecture and urbanism; sociological dimensions of the art and architecture of North Africa, especially Morocco; architectural and visual theory; Islamic studies.

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4559
• Email: so20@soas.ac.uk
• Room: B406
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays, 5:00-6:30pm (T2)

Professor Scott Redford

Member

Art, archaeology, and architecture of Anatolia, the eastern Mediterranean, and SW Asia from the 11-14th centuries with a special interest in landscape, urbanism, and ceramics

• Tel: 020 7898 4469
• Email: sr63@soas.ac.uk
• Room: B303
• Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays, 15:00-17:00 and by appointment

Dr Tanja Tolar

Member

Art and architecture of the Islamic world; Cross-cultural dimensions of Islamic material culture; Glass and Ceramics of Islamic lands; Orientalism.

• Email: tt30@soas.ac.uk
• Academic Support Hours: By appointment only.

Dr Tania Tribe

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4462
• Email: tt10@soas.ac.uk
• Room: B406
• Academic Support Hours: Mondays 5-7pm (17:00-19:00)

Professor 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
• Academic Support Hours: Mondays 3-5pm

Dr Adam Hanieh

Member

Political economy of labour migration, class and capitalism in the Middle East. With a focus on the the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Palestine, and the dynamics of regional accumulation.

• Tel: 020 7898 4784
• Email: ah92@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 4419
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays, 2.30 - 4.30pm

Dr 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
• Academic Support Hours: Bookable online here: https://goo.by/YQbfP.
• On Sabbatical:Term 2 & 3 (2019/20)

Dr Veli Yadirgi

Member

• Email: vy1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 289
• Academic Support Hours: Mondays 11-1pm

Dr Hannah Bargawi

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4496
• Email: hb19@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 278
• Academic Support Hours: https://hannahbargawi.youcanbook.me/

Professor Jane Harrigan

Member

• Email: jh66@soas.ac.uk

Professor Massoud Karshenas

Member

• Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4535
• Email: mk@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 268
• Academic Support Hours: On Leave Term 2

Dr Ibrahim Abosag

Member

Cross-cultural marketing, international consumer behaviour.

• Tel: 020 7898 4223
• Email: ia9@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 584
• Academic Support Hours: Friday 11 - 1

Professor 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

Dr Senija Causevic

Member

Critical management; critical marketing; (contested) heritage marketing, management and interpretation; experiential marketing; destination branding/marketing/representation; post-conflict cultural settings; Ottoman Empire; Balkans; India

• Tel: 0207 898 4514
• Email: sc83@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 542
• Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Professor 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
• Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Mr Adel Hamaizia

Member

Adel Hamaizia is a DPhil Candidate at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, and a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Financial and Management Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research focuses on the Political Economy of the Maghreb. His special interests are MENA-oriented and include regional integration; energy policy; economic diversification; private sector development; rentier states; state-business relations; and the development of institutions.

• Email: ah102@soas.ac.uk

Dr Sahar Rad

Member

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.

• Tel: 020 7898 4145
• Email: st54@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 548
• Academic Support Hours: Thursday 11 - 1

Professor 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.

Dr 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
• Academic Support Hours: Monday 1.00-3.00pm

Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith

Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4608
• Email: wc2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 313
• Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 11-1

Professor G R Hawting

Member

• Email: gh@soas.ac.uk

Dr Ceyda Karamursel

Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4602
• Email: ck17@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 324
• Academic Support Hours: On Leave 2019-20

Dr George Lane

Member

• Email: gl1@soas.ac.uk

Dr Amrita Shodhan

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4627
• Email: as115@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 307
• Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 2-4pm

Dr Mark Weeden

Member

Hittite, Akkadian language and literature in Syria

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4328
• Email: mw41@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 304
• Academic Support Hours: Monday 3-5pm or by appointment

Dr Philipp Wirtz

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4065
• Email: pw10@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 306
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesday, 2-4 pm

Dr 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: +44 (0)20 7898 4841
• Email: dp27@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 4417
• Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Professor Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem, OBE

Member

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4325
• Email: ha4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 427
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 13:00-14:00 / Wednesdays 12:00-13:00

Ms Ayse Berna Akca

Member

• Email: aa110@soas.ac.uk

Mr Ahmad Alkhashem

Member

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4208
• Email: aa40@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 434
• Academic Support Hours: Monday: 1-2pm / Thursday: 10-11am

Professor Abdul Hakim Ibrahim Al-Matroudi

Member

Islamic  Law

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4303
• Email: aa88@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 416
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 15:00-16:00, Wednesdays 14:00-15:00

Dr Keya Anjaria

Member

The Novel; 20th Century Turkish Literature; Turkish Cinema; World Literature; Comparative Literature;  20th Century Literary Criticism; Modernity and Modernization in late 19th and 20th Century Turkey.

• Tel: (020 7898) 4587
• Email: ka13@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 407
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 11am-1pm

Dr Helen Blatherwick

Member

Classical Arabic literature, Popular literature, Comparative literature

• Tel: 020 7898 4385
• Email: hb20@soas.ac.uk
• Academic Support Hours: TERM 1: Wednesday 3-4pm

Ms Maha Collinson

Member

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4409
• Email: mc86@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 446
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 3-4pm, Friday 10-11am

Dr Yorgos Dedes

Member

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4344
• Email: gd5@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 424
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 3-5pm

Dr Tamar Drukker

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4347
• Email: td4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 446
• Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 14:00-15:00 and by appointment

Dr Ayman El-Desouky

Member

Comparative Literature, 19th and 20th Century Arabic Literature, hermeneutics, modern philosophy and theory.

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4355
• Email: ad48@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 423
• Academic Support Hours: Back in September 2018

Dr Nada Elzeer

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4340
• Email: ne5@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 432
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 2-4pm

Dr Hannah Erlwein

Member

• Email: he4@soas.ac.uk

Ms Narguess Farzad

Member

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4346
• Email: nf1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 440
• Academic Support Hours: Thursday 1-2pm, Friday 1-2pm

Professor Andrew R George

Member

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4335
• Email: ag5@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 312
• Academic Support Hours: On research leave 2018-2021

Ms Mona Hammad

Member

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4271
• Email: mh102@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 407
• Academic Support Hours: Monday 10-11am, Tuesday 12-1pm

Dr Marlé Hammond

Member

Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature & Culture.  

• Tel: 020 7898 4518
• Email: mh93@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 438
• Academic Support Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 12-1pm

Professor Hugh N Kennedy

Member

Medieval history of Arabic-speaking lands.

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4251
• Email: hk1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 436
• Academic Support Hours: Mondays 4-5pm, Tuesdays 1-2pm

Dr Karima Laachir

Member

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

• Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4336
• Email: kl19@soas.ac.uk
• Academic Support Hours: On Research Leave

Fadi Bassam Mansour

Member

• Email: fm17@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 420
• Academic Support Hours: Appointment by email

Mr Gamon McLellan

Member

• Email: gm29@soas.ac.uk

Dr Nima Mina

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4315
• Email: nm46@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 422
• Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 1-3pm

Ms Shabnam Mirafzali

Member

• Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4314
• Email: sa95@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 429
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 15:00-17:00

Mr Krikor Moskofian

Member

West Armenian language and literature

• Email: km48@soas.ac.uk

Mr Wael Odeh

Member

• Email: wo4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 447
• Academic Support Hours: Monday 1-3pm

Professor Wen-chin Ouyang

Member

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4348
• Email: wo@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 435
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 2-3pm, Thursday 2-3pm

Mr Mohamed I Said

Member

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4353
• Email: ms15@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 425
• Academic Support Hours: SEE PROFILE BIO FOR HOURS

Mr Muaadh Salih

Member

Computer-assisted language learning; orality and oral literature of the Gulf; Arabic language pedagogy

• Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4354
• Email: ms1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 429
• Academic Support Hours: Friday 3-5pm

Dr Mustafa Shah

Member

• Tel: 020 7898 4341
• Email: ms99@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 434a
• Academic Support Hours: Thursday 12-2

Dr Ayman Shihadeh

Member

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

• Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4343
• Email: a.shihadeh@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 320
• Academic Support Hours: On Research Leave 2019-20

Professor Colin Shindler

Member

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

Ms Savitri Sperl

Member

• Email: ss107@soas.ac.uk

Professor Stefan Sperl

Arabic Literature Classical and Modern; Comparative Literature; Qur’an and Hadith Studies; Islamic Art; Sufism and Neoplatonism; Refugee and Exile Studies

• Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4338
• Email: ss6@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 433
• Academic Support Hours: On Sabbatical until September 2018

Dr Yair Wallach

Member

• Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4337
• Email: yw11@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 415
• Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 12-1pm. Thursday 4-5pm

Dr Katherine P Zebiri

• Email: kz@soas.ac.uk

Professor 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: +44 (0)207 898 4715
• Email: mb78@soas.ac.uk
• Room: S135
• Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 13:30 - 15:30
• On Sabbatical:T1 & 3 (2019/20)

Dr Brenna Bhandar

Indigenous rights, law and colonialism, post-colonial, feminist and critical legal theories.

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4540
• Email: bb29@soas.ac.uk
• Room: S331
• Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 11:00 - 13:00 (Term 2)

Mr Ian D Edge

Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4665
• Email: ie1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: S342
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 10:30 - 12:30

Dr Jonathan Ercanbrack

Member

Specialisms:  transnational financial law, Islamic financial law, the regulation of fintech, contract law and the financial laws of Arab Gulf States, Malaysia and the United Kingdom.

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4095
• Email: je6@soas.ac.uk
• Room: ​ S230
• Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 15:30 - 17:30

Mr Nicholas H D Foster

• Email: nf4@soas.ac.uk

Dr Vanja Hamzić

Member

Law and Society of South Asia (esp. Pakistan), South East Asia (esp. Indonesia) and West Africa (esp. Senegal); Islamic Law; Legal and Social History; Legal and Social Anthropology; Gender, Sexuality and the Law; Colonialism and Slavery in the 18th and 19th Centuries; Marxism; Critical Theory; Global Law/Governance; Cold War Studies.

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4501
• Email: vh1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: S336
• Academic Support Hours: T1: Thu 15:00 - 17:00 T2: Thu 17:00 - 19:00

Professor Martin W Lau

Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4935
• Email: ml1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: S337
• Academic Support Hours: Thursday 15.30–16.30

Dr Makeen F Makeen

Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4502
• Email: mm76@soas.ac.uk
• Room: S234
• Academic Support Hours: Fridays 12:30 - 14:30

Mr Scott Newton

Member

Post-Soviet law and legal/institutional reform in Central Asia and CIS; law and development (markets and globalisation in developing and transitional states); law, governance and post-conflict reconstruction; human rights.

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4658
• Email: sn21@soas.ac.uk
• Room: S330
• Academic Support Hours: Mondays 11:00 - 13:00

Dr Nimer Sultany

Member

Public Law; Legal and Political Theory; Comparative Constitutionalism; Public International Law and Human Rights Law.

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4729
• Email: ns30@soas.ac.uk
• Room: S228
• Academic Support Hours: Thursday 10.00 – 12.00

Professor Lynn Welchman

Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4672
• Email: lw10@soas.ac.uk
• Room: S235
• Academic Support Hours: Please see profile for details

Professor 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

• Email: is17@soas.ac.uk
• Room: S225
• Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb

Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4152
• Email: da4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: Archives
• Academic Support Hours: Mon-Fri: 9.00 to 17.00, Wed: working from home

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).

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4144
• Email: bw3@soas.ac.uk
• Room: Library E10

Professor Peter Austin

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

• Email: pa2@soas.ac.uk

Dr Monik Charette

Phonology, morpho-phonology, stress systems, vowel harmony, syllabic structure, word-structure, Altaic languages, Turkish, French

• Email: mc@soas.ac.uk

Professor 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

Dr Christopher Lucas

Member

Historical linguistics, Arabic linguistics, Maltese linguistics, Arabic dialectology, language contact, linguistic variation, contact-induced language change, Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin, Dynamic Syntax, Relevance Theory, Arabic language, Afro-Asiatic languages, English

• Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4318
• Email: cl39@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 447
• Academic Support Hours: Away on Research Leave 2019/20

Dr Kirsty Rowan

Member

• Email: kr2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 369

Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur

Member

• Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4588
• Email: ms123@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 346

Dr Dina Matar

Member

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.

• Tel: +44 (0)207 898 4696
• Email: dm27@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 575
• Academic Support Hours: Mondays 1-3pm

Dr Ilana Webster-Kogen

Member

Ethiopian music; Music in Israel/Palestine; Biblical cantillation; migration and nationalism; music and gender

• Tel: 0207 898 4334
• Email: iw4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 503
• Academic Support Hours: Thursdays, 3-4; Fridays, 1-2

Professor Owen Wright

Member

• Email: ow@soas.ac.uk

Dr Reem Abou-El-Fadl

Member

Nationalism in the Middle East; Foreign Policy Making in the Middle East; Egyptian Politics and History; Turkish Politics and History; Arab-Israeli Conflict

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4713
• Email: ra47@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 4410
• Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 1-3pm

Dr 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

Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4747
• Email: aa106@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 214
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays, 1.30-2.30pm; Thursdays, 2.30-3.30pm

Dr Seyed Ali Alavi

Member

International Politics, Middle East Politics, Central European and Caucasian Politics, Agricultural Generics and Agro-Policy, Languages

• Email: sa137@soas.ac.uk
• Room: Room 214

Dr Bhavna Davé

Member

Geopolitics of Eurasia, Labour migration regulatory regimes in Russia and Kazakhstan, China's Belt and Road Initiative and effects on Central Asia, Politics in Central Asia, Development strategies in the Russian Far East

• Tel: 020 7898 4734
• Email: bd4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 224
• Academic Support Hours: Thursdays 3-5pm

Professor Stephen Hopgood

Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4738
• Email: prodirectorintl@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 220

Professor 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: +44 (0)20 7898 4740
• Email: si1@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 204
• On Sabbatical:Term 2, 2019/20

Dr Hagar Kotef

Member

Political Theory; postcolonial, feminist, and critical theory; political violence; liberal thought; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; movement and mobility; the formation of political identities.

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4652
• Email: hk11@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 254
• Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays, 2-3pm

Dr Mark Laffey

Member

International theory; hierarchy and world history; historical sociology; postcolonialism; foreign policy analysis; ideas, culture and ideology.

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4744
• Email: ml23@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 222
• On Sabbatical:2019/20

Dr Matthew J Nelson

Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4742
• Email: mn6@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 218
• Academic Support Hours: Thursdays, 1-3pm (from Week 3) or by appointment

Dr Kerem Nisancioglu

Member

Eurocentrism; international historical sociology; World History; historical materialism; postcolonialism; critical race theory; the Ottoman Empire; Turkey; the Middle East

• Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4728
• Email: kn18@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 252
• Academic Support Hours: Mondays 4-6pm

Dr Moriel Ram

Member

Israeli-Palestinian conflict, geopolitics and material culture

• Email: mr45@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 221
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 10am - 11am

Dr Dara Salam

Member

Political Theory, Comparative political thought, Middle East politics, Religion and secularism

• Email: ds68@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 215
• Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays, 3-4pm

Professor Charles R H Tripp

Member

Middle East: states and ideologies, war, Islamic political thought

• Email: ct2@soas.ac.uk

Dr Leslie Vinjamuri

Member

International Organisation; International Politics of International and Transitional Justice; Religion, Human Rights and International Relations Theory; International Diplomacy and the Use of Force; International Diplomacy and Transitional States.

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4758
• Email: lv@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 213

Dr Elian Weizman

Member

Settler colonialism; Zionism; resistance; hegemony; law in society; Israeli state and society; Palestine; anticolonial solidarity; knowledge production in/on (settler) colonial contexts.

• Email: ew26@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 4414
• Academic Support Hours: Fridays, 12.00 - 2.00 PM

Dr Rafeef Ziadah

Member

War and humanitarianism, racism and the security state, political economy and state formation in the Middle East, military and humanitarian logistics, Gulf Cooperation Council, Israel/Palestine.

• Tel: 020 7898 4359
• Email: rz2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 211

Professor Catherine Hezser

Member

Judaism in Hellenistic and Roman times; rabbinic literature; social history of Jews in late antiquity; American Jewish history and literature, Jewish identity, gender studies

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4633
• Email: ch12@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 335
• Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 10:00-11:00 / Thursday 11:00-12:00

Professor Almut Hintze

Member

Professor 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: 329
• Academic Support Hours: Academic support hours: by appointment

Dr 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: 333

Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams

Member

• Email: ns5@soas.ac.uk

Dr Sarah Stewart

Member

Lecturer in Zoroastrianism, with particular reference to the living tradition in Iran and India.

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4270
• Email: ss7@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 331
• Academic Support Hours: Thursday 2:00-4:00 pm

Professor 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, world philosophies.

• Email: zc@soas.ac.uk

Dr Renate Söhnen-Thieme

Member

• Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4293
• Email: rs2@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 376

Dr Jianwei Han

Visiting Scholar

Dr Jianwei Han is a Visiting Scholar at SOAS University of London. She is an Associate Professor and also the Director of the Iranian programmme of the Middle East Studies Institute, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU, China). Before joining SISU in 2017, she was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at West Asia and Africa Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). She got her PhD at the Middle East Studies Institute, Northwest University (China), her MA at Nankai University (China), and her BA at Qufu Normal University (China). Her main research interests are related to Iranian issues. In the past, she mainly studied on Iranian economic and social issues (e.g. women and youth) since the Islamic Revolution. Her current study is related to the Rouhani government’s foreign policy and the Gulf peace process. Her first book will be published in 2019, under the title Iranian Economic Modernization Process since Islamic Revolution. 

• Email: jh112@soas.ac.uk
• Room: T106