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Nineteenth and twentieth century social and intellectual history, particularly of the Bombay Presidency; communalism and nationalism in India; debates around secularism and religious intolerance.

Hengameh Ziai is Lecturer in the History of the Middle East and Africa at SOAS.

Marta Simonetti is a doctoral researcher within the School of law, SOAS. Her research focuses on environmental rights, in particular the way they can be shaped and expressed outside of traditional law. In this context, she is researching a rights-based perspective in international and national environmental law is an effective approach to achieving the global objectives of stabilising the climate and combat environmental degradation. Specifically, the thesis wants to explore whether localised answers, as expressed in customary law and other forms of non-state law– such as in Adat in Indonesia and Ubuntu in Rwanda –are more or less significant in providing formal and informal tools to ensure ecological balance. These two cases bring important knowledge to the table, as they each present specific characteristics in the way environmental rights are shaped and applied.

Research: Natural resource management, water resources, rural development and poverty reduction.

Yasmine Hafez is a PhD researcher at SOAS.

Rana is a PhD student in the School of Law whose research interests include social movements, legal mobilizations, political theory, and contemporary religious institutions.

Randa Alami is a Lecturer in Economics at SOAS.

Dr. Yaser Alashqar is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Independent College Dublin and a member of the Centre for Palestine Studies at SOAS.