Ms Sarah Ghabrial Modernity; secularism; citizenship; legal pluralism; colonialism; Islamic law; Mediterranean and Maghreb studies; histories of gender, sexuality, the family in the Middle-East and North Africa; French Second Empire and Third Republic; 19th-20th centuries.
Dr Colin Heywood Honorary Research Fellow at the Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull
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.
Dr Sarah Elibiary Islamic Jurisprudence; Sunni and Shi'i jurisprudential discourses on Laws of War and Rebellion; Muslim Family Law and aspects of Criminal Law (Baghy and Hirabah); Islamist insurgencies and armed groups. International Human Rights Law.
Dr Tahir Zaman Refugees and forced migration with particular reference to Iraq and Syria, transnationalism, diaspora contributions to conflict transformation and peace-building, sociology of religion, and faith-based humanitarianism.