Professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
This year Professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland, is Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at SOAS and the Centre for Iranian Studies (CIS) at the London Middle East Institute where he will be offering several lectures, completing his research project on the exilic mode in Persian literature, and providing consultation in the process of the expansion and updating of the Department's course offerings and areas of research development.