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
Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Dr Nana Sato-Rossberg
Head of Section
Professor Wen-chin Ouyang (Arabic), Dr Keya Anjaria (Other Middle East)
BA Convenors
Professor Wen-chin Ouyang (BA Arabic, BA Arabic and...)
Arabic Year Abroad co-ordinator
Professor Wen-chin Ouyang
ISP/EE Convenor
Dr Marlé Hammond
MA Convenors
Mr Mohamed Said (MA... and Intensive Arabic)
Dr Mustafa Shah (MA Islamic Studies)
Research Tutor
Professor Wen-chin Ouyang
UG Admissions Tutor
Mr Mohamed Said
UG Academic Advisers
Year 1: Dr Marlé Hammond
Years 2-4: allocated by Dr Marlé Hammond
UG Exams Sub-board
Dr Mustafa Shah (Chair), Ms Mona Hammad (Deputy)
BA Convenors
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...)
Dr Yair Wallach (BA Hebrew and Israeli Studies)
ISP/EE Convenor
Dr Keya Anjaria
MA Convenors
Dr Seyed Ali Alavi (MA Iranian Studies)
Dr Yorgos Dedes (MA... and Intensive Turkish, MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies, MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies and...)
Ms Narguess Farzad and Ms Shabnam Mirafzali (MA... and Intensive Persian)
Research Tutor
Professor Wen-chin Ouyang
UG Academic Advisers
Allocated by Ms Narguess Farzad
UG Exams Sub-board
Ms Nargues Farzad (Chair)
Medieval history of Arabic-speaking lands.
Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature & Culture.
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
International Politics, Middle East Politics, Central European and Caucasian Politics, Agricultural Generics and Agro-Policy, Languages
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.
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
Literary and cultural studies: postcolonial studies, diaspora studies and 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