Professor Wen-chin Ouyang Classical and modern Arabic literature and culture, with emphasis on narrative and storytelling, comparative narratology and critical theory, and gendered thinking and discourse.
Dr Shubhra Chaturvedi Dr Shubhra Chaturvedi is currently a Teaching Fellow at the Department for Politics and International Studies.
Ozgur Yetiser Ozgur is a SOAS Research Studentship PhD scholar in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS University of London. Their current PhD project focuses on autistic lived experiences of London’s urban sensescapes, with particular interest in ethical dimensions of sensory composition of urban space, and the neuroqueering of ethnographic methods towards empowering marginalised ways of sensing the world.
Runako Charles Runako Charles is a doctoral researcher in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics (Near and Middle East Section) at SOAS, University of London. His research focuses on the intellectual legacy of Imām al-Dāraquṭnī (d. 385/995) and the development of ḥadīth criticism in the 4th/10th century.
Dongzhu Xu Dongzhu Xu is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. His research examines the political economy of mineral wealth and poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with broader interests in critical minerals, new institutional economics, conflict dynamics, the resource curse and development in the Global South.
Professor Adam Hanieh Adam Hanieh is Director of SOAS Middle East Institute and Professor in Development Studies at SOAS.
Dr Rachel Silberstein Dr Rachel Silberstein is the co-convenor of the Arts of China module of SOAS-Alphawood Asian Art Programme.