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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.

Honorary Research Fellow at the Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull

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.  

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. 

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.

Lorenz M. Lüthi focuses on the history of post-1945 international relations, particularly in the socialist world and in the emerging decolonized world. He currently works on a large project on the regional Cold Wars in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

David Fisk is holder of the Laing O’Rourke Chair in Systems Engineering and Innovation at Imperial College. He previously held the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair at Imperial College London in Engineering for Sustainable Development. At Imperial he is Director of the Laing O’Rourke Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation and is a co-director of the BP Urban Energy Systems Program. He is a Past President of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers and serves as a Non-Executive Member of the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority.