Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

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

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Postgraduate enquiries

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Head of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES)

Name (sorted in ascending order) Role Email Phone number
Ines Aščerić-Todd Head of Department, Lecturer in Arabic and Middle Eastern Cultures Ines.Asceric-Todd@ed.ac.uk +44(0)131 650 6814

Administrative staff

Name (sorted in ascending order) Role Email Phone number
Monique Brough Senior Administrator (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies - Undergraduate and Postgraduate) monique.brough@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4182
Anne Budo-Dodeur Undergraduate Administrator A.Budo@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4161

Academic staff

Name (sorted in descending order) Role Email Phone number
Farah Aboubakr Lecturer in Arabic, IASH Affiliate (2023-24) Farah.Aboubakr@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 3625
Alaa Alshaikh Sulaiman Teaching Fellow in Arabic Alaa.Sulaiman@ed.ac.uk
Thallein Antun Teaching Fellow thallein.antun@ed.ac.uk
Ines Aščerić-Todd Head of Department, Lecturer in Arabic and Middle Eastern Cultures Ines.Asceric-Todd@ed.ac.uk +44(0)131 650 6814
Elvire Corboz Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam and Middle East elvire.corboz@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 6504148
Mourad Diouri (SFHEA) Teaching Fellow (Arabic), eLearning Officer M.Diouri@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 6615
Jonathan Featherstone Honorary Fellow Jonathan.Featherstone@ed.ac.uk
Jona Fras Teaching Fellow in Arabic jona.fras@ed.ac.uk
Hugh Goddard Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World thealwaleedcentre@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4165
Andreas Görke Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies A.Goerke@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4177
Anthony Gorman Senior Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History Anthony.Gorman@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4183
Phil Hermina Language Assistant in Arabic, Lead Arabic Tutor phil.hermina@ed.ac.uk
Carole Hillenbrand Honorary Fellow C.Hillenbrand@ed.ac.uk
Robert Hillenbrand Honorary Fellow R.Hillenbrand@ed.ac.uk
Marie Legendre Senior Lecturer in Islamic History marie.legendre@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 6509872
Giulia Liberatore Lecturer giulia.liberatore@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4463
Simon Loynes British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow simon.loynes@ed.ac.uk
Noemie Lucas Research Fellow in Abbasid Fiscal History and Historiography noemie.lucas@ed.ac.uk
Ebtihal Mahadeen Lecturer in Gender and Media Studies Ebtihal.Mahadeen@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 651 3202
Dr Songül Mecit Teaching Fellow Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies S.Mecit@ed.ac.uk
Dr Azin Mostajer Haghighi Lecturer in Persian Azin.Haghighi@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 8433
Marwa Mouazen Lecturer of Arabic Marwa.Mouazen@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4176
Andrew J. Newman Personal Chair of Islamic Studies and Persian A.Newman@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 4178
Nacim Pak Shiraz Professor of Cinema and Iran Nacim.Pak-Shiraz@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 650 8432
Eline Scheerlinck Research Fellow in Coptic Papyrology eline.scheerlinck@ed.ac.uk
Şebnem Susam-Saraeva Professor of Translation Studies S.Susam-Saraeva@ed.ac.uk +44 (0)131 651 1373
Professor Nazife Burcu Takil Ataturk Teaching Fellow in Turkish burcu.takil@ed.ac.uk
Frédéric Volpi Professor frederic.volpi@ed.ac.uk