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: Tuesday and Wednesday 3-4pm

Professor Hugh N Kennedy

Professor of Arabic

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

Professor Wen-chin Ouyang

Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4348
• Email: wo@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 435
• Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 12-1 or by appointment online

Dr Yorgos Dedes

Senior Lecturer in Turkish

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

Ms Narguess Farzad

Senior Lecturer in Persian Studies (Education)

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

Dr Marlé Hammond

Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture

Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature & Culture.  

• Tel: 020 7898 4518
• Email: mh93@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 419
• Academic Support Hours: Wed 11-1 (online); Fri by appointment (on campus)

Dr Christopher Lucas

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: Online by appointment

Mr Mohamed I Said

Senior Lecturer in Arabic (Education)

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4353
• Email: ms15@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 425
• Academic Support Hours: Online by appointment: Monday 1-2pm; Tuesday 4-5pm

Dr Mustafa Shah

Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies

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

Dr Yair Wallach

Senior Lecturer in Israeli Studies

• Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4337
• Email: yw11@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 415
• Academic Support Hours: On Research Leave

Dr Nada Elzeer

Lecturer in Arabic (Education)

• Tel: 020 7898 4340
• Email: ne5@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 418
• Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Mr Ahmad Alkhashem

Senior Lector in Arabic

• Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4208
• Email: aa40@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 434
• Academic Support Hours: Arabic 4 A&B: Mon 11-12 / Arabic 5 A&B: Thu 11-12

Ms Maha Collinson

Lecturer (Education) in Arabic

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

Ms Mona Hammad

Senior Lector in Arabic

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

Dr Mila Neishtadt

Senior Lector in Hebrew

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

• Email: mn35@soas.ac.uk
• Academic Support Hours: By appointment: Monday 1-2pm

Ms Ayse Berna Akca

Teaching Fellow in Turkish

• Email: aa110@soas.ac.uk

Dr Seyed Ali Alavi

Senior Teaching Fellow

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

• Email: sa137@soas.ac.uk

Dr Keya Anjaria

Lecturer (education) in Near and Middle East Studies

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: 412
• Academic Support Hours: Thu 1-2, Fri 10-11 TERM-TIME BOOKING (SEE BIO)

Dr Helen Blatherwick

Senior Teaching Fellow in Arabic

Research Associate

• Tel: 020 7898 4385
• Email: hb20@soas.ac.uk
• Academic Support Hours: By appointment online

Mr Gamon McLellan

Teaching Fellow in Turkish

• Email: gm29@soas.ac.uk

Ms Shabnam Mirafzali

Senior Fellow in Persian

• Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4314
• Email: sa95@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 411
• Academic Support Hours: Monday 3-5pm online; Tuesday 9-11am on campus

Mr Wael Odeh

Senior Lector in Arabic

• Email: wo4@soas.ac.uk
• Room: 372
• Academic Support Hours: By appointment only (face-to-face or online)

Professor Abdul Hakim Ibrahim Al-Matroudi

Visiting Professor in Arabic (Islamic Law)

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

Professor Bruce Ingham

Professorial Research Associate

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

Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams

• Email: ns5@soas.ac.uk

Professor Stefan Sperl

Professorial Research Associate

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

Dr A. Ebru Akcasu

Research Associate

• Email: ea10@soas.ac.uk

Dr Helen Blatherwick

Senior Teaching Fellow in Arabic

Research Associate

• Tel: 020 7898 4385
• Email: hb20@soas.ac.uk
• Academic Support Hours: By appointment online

Dr Karima Laachir

Research Associate

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

Mr Krikor Moskofian

Research Associate

West Armenian language and literature

• Email: km48@soas.ac.uk

Dr Peter Phillips

Research Associate

• Email: pp14@soas.ac.uk

Dr Yuri Stoyanov

Research Associate

• Email: ys3@soas.ac.uk

Itzea Goikolea-Amiano

Gender Studies and Feminist Epistemology, Islam and Islamophobia, Spanish Colonialism in Morocco, and the History (Herstory), Culture, Literature and Politics of Colonial Morocco.

• Email: ig12@soas.ac.uk

Dr Moriel Ram

Israeli-Palestinian conflict, geopolitics and material culture

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