Professor Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem, OBE
King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies

- 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
Dr Nana Sato-Rossberg
Head of Section
Professor Wen-chin Ouyang (Arabic), Dr Yorgos Dedes (Other Middle East)
Dr Yorgos Dedes (BA Middle Eastern Studies, BA Middle Eastern Studies and..., BA Turkish and...)
Ms Narguess Farzad (BA Persian and...)
Dr Mila Neishtadt (BA Hebrew and...)
Professor Wen-chin Ouyang (BA Arabic, BA Arabic and...)
Dr Yair Wallach (BA Hebrew and Israeli Studies)
MA Convenors
Dr Yorgos Dedes (MA ... and Intensive Language (Turkish), MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies, MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies and Intensive Language, MA Turkish Studies)
Ms Narguess Farzad and Ms Shabnam Mirafzali (MA ... and Intensive Language (Persian))
Mr Mohamed Said (MA ... and Intensive Language (Arabic))
Dr Mustafa Shah (MA Islamic Studies
TBC (MA Palestine Studies, MA Palestine Studies and Intensive Language)
TBC (MA Iranian Studies, MA Iranian Studies and Intensive Language, MA Israeli Studies)
Research Tutor; PhD Admissions Tutor; Departmental Director of Doctoral Studies
Professor Wen-chin Ouyang
UG Admissions Tutor
Mr Mohamed Said
Academic Advisers
Arabic: Dr Nada Elzeer
Other Middle East: Ms Narguess Farzad
NB: PG students, your Academic Adviser is your MA Convenor.
UG Exams Sub-board
Arabic: Dr Marle Hammond (Chair); Ms Mona Hammad (Deputy)
Other Middle East: Ms Narguess Farzad (Chair); TBC (Deputy)
Medieval history of Arabic-speaking lands.
Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature & Culture.
Literary and cultural studies: postcolonial studies, diaspora studies and comparative literature
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
Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Semitic Languages in Contact, Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Aramaic Linguistics, Arabic Linguistics and Dialectology, Palestinian Arabic, Middle Eastern Traditional Agriculture, Palestinian Ethnography
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.
Classical Arabic literature, Popular literature, Comparative literature
Sociolinguistics, modern history, political theory, consumerism, human rights, Palestine, Israel
Islamic Law
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)
Arabic Literature Classical and Modern; Comparative Literature; Qur’an and Hadith Studies; Islamic Art; Sufism and Neoplatonism; Refugee and Exile Studies
Classical Arabic literature, Popular literature, Comparative literature
West Armenian language and literature
Gender Studies and Feminist Epistemology, Islam and Islamophobia, Spanish Colonialism in Morocco, and the History (Herstory), Culture, Literature and Politics of Colonial Morocco.
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, geopolitics and material culture