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Arab
& Islamic Studies
(Middle East
and Central Asia)
Professor
Amin Saikal
Professor of Political Science and Director of Centre Research
interests include the politics, history, political economy
and international relations of the Middle East and Central
Asia.
Professor
James Piscatori
Deputy Director of Centre and Graduate Student Advisor.
His research interests include political Islam and the politics,
history and international relations of the Middle East.
Dr Matthew Gray
Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Senior Lecturer
Research interests include the politics, political economy
and international relations of the Middle East.
Dr
Kirill Nourzhanov
Senior Lecturer
Research interests include politics, international relations
and conflict resolution in contemporary Central Asia.
Dr Mehmet Mehdi Ilhan
Lecturer Turkish Language and Turkish Studies
Research interests include Ottoman language, modern Turkish
language, Ottoman and Turkish history and culture, and the
history of Islam.
Dr Hossein Heirani-Moghaddam
Lecturer in Persian Language and Iranian Studies
Research interests include Iran’s contemporary foreign
policy as well as the study of political and religious discourses
in Iran’s modern history.
Dr
Ali Yunis Aldahesh
Lecturer in Arabic Language and Literature
Research interests include translation theory, contrastive
linguistics, lexiocography and pedagogy.
Professor
Robert Bowker
Adjunct Professor
Research interests include Middle East politics, Persian
Gulf security and conflict resolution in the Arab-Israeli
context.
Professor
Stuart Harris
Visiting Fellow
Research interests include international relations of China
and countries of Northeast Asia, Asia-Pacific regional cooperation
and Australia's foreign policy.
Dr
Douglas Sturkey
Visiting Fellow
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