Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East
Undergraduate Year 1 Tutor
Nationalism in the Middle East; Foreign Policy Making in the Middle East; Egyptian Politics and History; Turkish Politics and History; Arab-Israeli Conflict
International Relations Theory; International Security; Migration and Diaspora Mobilization; Globalisation and Global Governance; Transnational Identity Movements
Professor of Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies
Research Tutor - Term 1
Programme co-convenor MA in Iranian Studies
International politics of West Asia; Iranian foreign and domestic politics; Critical theories of international relations; US foreign policy in the ‘third world’; Islamic political and intellectual history. Professor Adib-Moghaddam also gave a keynote lecture at the University of Hamburg : The European Crisis in Global Perspective - Local Changes and Global Developments.
International Relations Theory, Concept Analysis, Identity, Power, Security, Time, Friendship, Transatlantic Relations, European Security, Sociology of the Discipline
Programme Convenor - MRes Politics with (Language)
Reader in Comparative & International Politics
History, Politics and Law of the African Great Lakes; Transitional Justice Theory and Practice; the Politics of Violence; Community-Based and Customary Law
Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
International political economy, particular politics of world trade and history of neoliberalism; conceptual analysis of power and legitimacy; international political sociology.
Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East
Urban politics and state-society relations in the Middle East; the study of Islamism; Islamist movements; modern Arab and Islamic political thought; political ethnography.
Political violence, wars and counterinsurgencies, the political economy of military mobilities, refugees and humanitarian regimes, the politics of logistics and transport, Middle East, Israel/Palestine.
Reader in Comparative Politics and Development Studies
Programme Convenor- State, Society and Development
Comparative Political Economy (East Asia): varieties of capitalism; socialist to market transitions; Security on the Korean Peninsula, Development Theory
Senior Lecturer of Political Theory and Comparative Politics
Research Admissions Tutor
Undergraduate Year 3 Tutor
Political Theory; postcolonial, feminist, and critical theory; political violence; liberal thought; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; movement and mobility; the formation of political identities.
Eurocentrism; international historical sociology; World History; historical materialism; postcolonialism; critical race theory; the Ottoman Empire; Turkey; the Middle East
International relations theory, critical theory (especially postcolonial and queer theory), comparative political thought, gender and sexuality, South Asia
State and society in China and Taiwan; Comparative Political Sociology; theatrical and performative dimensions of politics, interpretive methods, China-Africa, China-Latin America
Programme Convenor for MSc Conflict, Rights and Justice
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.
Elian is a lecturer in Middle East Politics. Before re-joining SOAS she was the deputy director of the CBRL Kenyon Institute in East Jerusalem (2015-2017).
Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East
BA Politics Programme Convenor
Rafeef Ziadah is Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East. Prior to this she was Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the SOAS Politics and International Studies department with the 'Military Mobilities and Mobilising Movements in the Middle East' project
Comparative political thought; Contemporary Islamic thought in Southeast Asia; Southeast Asian politics, particularly Thailand and Malaysia; Culture and politics.
Ian Sanjay Patel is Senior Teaching Fellow in the Politics and International Relations Department. Prior to this he was an Associate Lecturer at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Political theory; articulations of republicanism in the history of political though (Cicero, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Rousseau) and comparative political thought (Nehru); contemporary liberalism and multiculturalism
I am currently Invited Associate Editor for the Theoretical and Experimental Psychology Journal (Teoreticheskaya i Eksperimentalnaya Psihologiya). I joined SOAS in October 2015.
My main researches and interests are around Middle East Politics, European (Central EU) and British and American Politics. Also I am interested in cultural issues and cultural identity politics. I speak English, Arabic, Farsi (Persian), Azeri, Kurdish and some understanding of Hebrew.
I am a PhD candidate at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London. My thesis draws on feminist critical thinking in order to unpack the 'political economy of love' in contemporary urban Lebanon.
Fr. Atta Barkindo is a PhD student at SOAS and a Research Fellow of GICSC, University of South Florida, and Open Doors International, Netherlands. He consults for the Nigerian Deradicalization programme and his current PhD research was awarded the 2014 Horowitz grant for Social Policy
I worked for the U.S. State Department for seven years. My previous academic and professional background has focused on developing expertise in conflict resolution, election monitoring, East and Central Africa, and diplomacy.
My research adopts a political economy approach in trying to understand how the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has impacted chewing tobacco farmers in South India.
David's research focuses on British foreign policy in the Middle East. He writes regularly for the Guardian and other publications on domestic politics and international affairs.
Political theory; history of political thought; comparative political thought; liberalism; modern ideologies; the nature of political thinking; conceptual history.
I have experienced around10 years, as a program projector, NGO activities that organized international conferences in Tokyo, Beijing, Washington D.C. and Sakhalin in Russia focusing on stability of East Asia since 1999 until 2007, which would contribute to my thesis.
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