Advisory Board

Academic Advisors

Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Emeritus Professor at the Department of History of Art and Archaeology, SOAS, University of London

Diana Bozhilova
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, New College of the Humanities

Marilyn Booth
Professor and Director of Research, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford

Rasheed El Enany
Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

Khaled Fahmy
Professor of History, The American University in Cairo

Narguess Farzad
Senior Fellow in Persian Studies, SOAS, University of London

Leila Fawaz
Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University

Anthony Grayling
Philosopher and Author, Master of the New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford

Nidhal Guessoum
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, American University of Sharjah

Carole Hillenbrand
Honorary Fellow, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh

Robert Hillenbrand
Honorary Fellow, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh

Salima Ikram
Distinguished University Professor of Egyptology, The American University in Cairo

Fatima El Issawi
Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Open Seminar Coordinator, University of Essex

Hugh N. Kennedy
Professor of Arabic History, SOAS, University of London

Trevor Marchand
Emeritus Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London

Samia Mehrez
Professor and Director of Center for Translation Studies, The American University in Cairo

Mona Siddiqui
Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies, University of Edinburgh

Eugene Rogan
Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History and Director of St Antony’s College Middle East Centre, University of Oxford

James Walters
Director of the LSE Faith Centre, Chaplain and Senior Lecturer in Practice, London School of Economics

Ozan Ozavci

Assistant Professor of History at Utrecht University and co-convenor of the Lausanne Project