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Syriac-speaking Christianity, especially its earlier history and its emergence from the Aramaic-speaking environment of the Roman/Byzantine Near East; the development of the Syriac scripts and language; early contacts between Syriac Christians and Muslims; other religious minorities in the Middle East (Jews, Mandaeans, Gnostics); the present situation of the Middle East Christians; Syriac liturgy. In addition, Professor Healey has worked extensively in the early alphabet, Hebrew Bible, Nabataea and Palmyra.

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Thomas Summers is a PhD candidate in African Studies in the department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. His PhD thesis, titled "Digital Swahili: Tracking Language Innovations in Tanzanian Swahili from 2013 to 2023 on X", analyses a corpus of circa 11,000 X posts (circa 120,000 individual lexical units) to find patterns in use and spread of linguistic innovations. His research interests include: African languages in digital spaces, Swahili language and culture, Tanzanian minority languages and the wider East African community.

Dolly Sharma is pursuing PhD in South Asian Studies in the Department of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics. Her research is about women in the Nauṭaṅkī theatre of North India.

Sakshi Sharda is a doctoral researcher at Department of Law, SOAS. Her thesis focuses on the intersection of political emotions and gender in family courtrooms in India

Affects of Shame: Questions of Authorial Ethics in Contemporary Postcolonial Writing and Film