Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

Academic Staff

All members of academic staff have individual profiles including information about their research interests, publications, responsibilities and contact details.

Academic Staff
Professor Dionisius A. Agius FBA Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture: Senior Research Fellow
Dr Sabiha Allouche Lecturer in Middle East Politics
Dr Mustafa Baig Lecturer in Islamic Studies
Dr Samer Bakkour Lecturer in ME Studies and Politics
Dr Claire Beaugrand Lecturer in Sociology of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula
Professor Siam Bhayro Associate Professor, Semitic Languages and Jewish Studies
Dr Billie Jeanne Brownlee Lecturer in Middle East Politics
Dr Ferah Burgul Lecturer
Professor John P. Cooper Associate Professor in Maritime Archaeology & Arabic
Dr Ahmed Dailami Lecturer in the History of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula
Emeritus Professor Rasheed El-Enany Professor Emeritus
Professor Nahyan Fancy Al-Qasimi Professor in Islamic Studies
Dr Giorgia Ferrari Lecturer
Professor William Gallois Professor of the History of the Mediterranean Islamicate World | Assistant Director IAIS
Dr Eleanor Gao Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Politics
Dr Farangis Ghaderi Lecturer in Gender and Kurdish Studies, Director of the Centre for Kurdish Studies, Principle Investigator (PI) of the Kurdish Digital Archive
Professor Maziyar Ghiabi Associate Professor of Social Sciences
Associate Professor Jonathan Githens-Mazer Associate Professor in Ethno-Politics
Professor Robert Gleave Professor of Arabic Studies
Professor Adam Hanieh Professor of Political Economy and Global Development
Dr Allan Hassaniyan Lecturer in Middle East Politics
Professor Timothy Insoll FBA Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology, Director of Research
Professor Laleh Khalili Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies
Dr István Kristó-Nagy Senior Lecturer in Arab & Islamic Studies, Director of the Centre for the Study of Islam
Mr Ali Mossadegh Lecturer in Persian Language
Dr Nadia Naser-Najjab Senior Lecturer in Palestine Studies
Dr Katie Natanel Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies
Emeritus Professor Ian Netton Professor Emeritus
Emeritus Professor Tim Niblock Professor Emeritus
Dr Michael Noble Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies
Ms Abla Oudeh Mahmoud Lecturer
Professor Ilan Pappé Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies.
Dr Ross Porter Lecturer
Safaa Radoan Associate Lecturer
Fatima Rawan Senior Lecturer in Arabic Language
Professor Sajjad Rizvi Professor of Islamic Intellectual History and Islamic Studies
Professor Christine Robins (formerly Allison) Ibrahim Ahmed Professor of Kurdish Studies, Director of Education.
Dr Rama Sahtout Lecturer
Dr Clemence Scalbert-Yucel Senior Lecturer in Ethnopolitics
Associate Professor Emily Selove Associate Professor in Medieval Arabic Literature
Professor Gareth Stansfield Professor of Middle East Politics, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean (HASS)
Professor Lise Storm Associate Professor of Party Politics
Dr Suha Taji-Farouki Senior Lecturer in Modern Islam
Associate Professor Marc Valeri Associate Professor in Political Economy of the Middle East; Director of Education and Student Experience (IAIS)