Staff

Get to know the team in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES).

Many of us work on a hybrid basis - a mixture of on-campus and digitally.

Our working hours are Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm (UK time).

Please email us in the first instance, and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

Undergraduate enquiries

The Head of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies for the current academic year (2024 to 2025) is Dr Ines Aščerić-Todd.

Name	Role
Farah Aboubakr	Lecturer in Arabic
Alaa Alshaikh Sulaiman	Teaching Fellow in Arabic
Ines Aščerić-Todd	Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Middle Eastern Cultures
Elvire Corboz	Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam and Middle East
Mourad Diouri (SFHEA)	Teaching Fellow in Arabic and eLearning Officer
Jona Fras	Lecturer in Arabic
Andreas Görke	Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies
Anthony Gorman	Senior Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History
Phil Hermina	Tutor in Arabic
Marie Legendre	Senior Lecturer in Islamic History
Giulia Liberatore	Lecturer
Simon Loynes	British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Noemie Lucas	Research Fellow in Abbasid Fiscal History and Historiography
Ebtihal Mahadeen	Lecturer in Gender and Media Studies of the Middle East
Dr Songül Mecit	Teaching Fellow Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Dr Azin Mostajer Haghighi	Lecturer in Persian
Marwa Mouazen	Lecturer of Arabic
Andrew J. Newman	Personal Chair of Islamic Studies and Persian
Nacim Pak Shiraz	Professor of Cinema and Iran
Eline Scheerlinck	Research Fellow in Coptic Papyrology
Şebnem Susam-Saraeva	Professor of Translation Studies
Professor Nazife Burcu Takil	Ataturk Teaching Fellow in Turkish
Farina Tavasolian	Tutor in Persian
Frédéric Volpi	Professor

Academic Year 2024 to 2025: Semester 2

Jonathan Featherstone	Honorary Fellow
Hugh Goddard	Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World
Carole Hillenbrand	Professor Emerita
Robert Hillenbrand	Professor Emeritus

This article was published on 2024-08-13