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    Richard Barltrop | Visiting Senior Fellow

    Richard's research focuses on contemporary international approaches to peacemaking and why peace processes fail or succeed, with a focus on Yemen, Sudan, and South Sudan.

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    Marouf Cabi | Visiting Fellow

    Marouf is interested in the social and cultural histories of Kurdistan and Iran, as well as political and social movements, especially since WWII, and modern history-writing.

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    Jessica Northey | Visiting Fellow

    Jessica’s research focuses on the work of charities, youth and local activists in different political systems and their potential to contribute to reform, with a focus on Algeria.

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    Mostafa Khalili | Visiting Fellow

    Mostafa is an Assistant Professor at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research at Kyoto University. His research interests includes exploring ethnicity and minority nationalism from an anthropological angle, with a particular focus on politically unstable regions.

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    Aitemad Muhanna-Matar | Visiting Senior Fellow

    Aitemad's research focuses on gender, agency, and radicalisation. She served on multiple projects across Arab countries and the Middle East including at LSE, UNDP, and CARA.

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    Dr Sana Murrani | Visiting Senior Fellow

    Sana's research focuses on built, destroyed, and imagined geographies of war, violence and displacement in the Middle East, with a focus on Iraq.

  • Reza Omidi

    Reza Omidi | Visiting Fellow

    Reza's research focuses on social inequalities, solidarity, political economy, and social policy developments in Iran.

  • Dena Qaddumi

    Dena Qaddumi | Visiting Senior Fellow

    Dena is a scholar of urban politics and the built environment and has conducted research in Palestine, Qatar, and Tunisia.

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    Durukan Imrie-Kuzu | Visiting Senior Fellow

    Dr Durukan Imrie-Kuzu is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Middle East Centre, LSE, and an editor of Nations and Nationalism at LSE IDEAS. His research examines Kurdish responses to Syrian refugee governance in Turkey and its implications for minority politics, citizenship and regional security.

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    Necla Acik | Visiting Fellow

    Dr Necla Acik’s research focuses on Kurdish Gender Studies, including the development of the Kurdish Gender Studies Network (KGSN), alongside work on migration, diaspora, radicalisation, and participation, employing a wide range of mixed methods, from survey design and analysis to participatory, arts-based, and ethnographic approaches.

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    Mina Toksöz | Visiting Senior Fellow

    Dr Mina Toksöz is an international economist and author who has travelled and worked on a wide range of emerging markets around the world. Her current focus is on the prospects for south-south trade, FDI, and global and regional supply chains in the Mediterranean rim economies.

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    Salma Ibrahim

    Department of International Development

    Salma is a PhD candidate whose work applies advanced data analysis techniques to tackle complex social and economic challenges, with a particular focus on the effectiveness and sustainability of UNRWA’s livelihoods programs for Palestinian refugees.

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    Luqman Abu El Foul

    Department of Government

    Luqman is a PhD Candidate in the Government Department. His research broadly focuses on political violence and contentious politics, seeking to examine what factors structure mobilisation. His PhD thesis delves into this topic through three papers, the first of which examines how inter-ethnic exposure affected mobilisation patterns in Mandatory Palestine.

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    Nilüfer Güneş

    European Institute

    Nilüfer is a PhD candidate in the European Institute. Her thesis examines Türkiye as a reformist middle power and explores how Turkish foreign policy uses mediation, humanitarian aid, and regional activism to challenge the norms, values, and hierarchies of the global order.

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    Ola Aboukhsaiwan

    Department of Economics

    Ola Aboukhsaiwan is a PhD candidate in the Economics Department. She is a behavioral and experimental economist who studies how frictions and misperceptions sustain unemployment, shape the impacts of humanitarian aid, and determine healthcare access. Her fieldwork draws on settings across the Middle East, including Bahrain and Yemen.

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    Partha Moman

    Department of International Relations

    Partha is a Phd Candidate in the Department of International Relations working on the intersection of geopolitics and security in civil war contexts in the Horn of Africa and the wider Red Sea region.

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    Joel Chong

    Department of Government

    Joel is a PhD candidate in the Government Department. His doctoral project is a comparative study of Turkey and Thailand that examines the processes through which religion – Islam and Buddhism respectively – is bureaucratised, arguing that the bureaucratisation of religion has transformed not only orthodoxy and orthopraxy, but also notions of power, identity, statehood, and modernity itself.

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    Daniel Brown

    Department of Sociology

    Daniel is a PhD researcher in the Sociology Department whose thesis examines the transnational solidarity politics of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement in Europe.

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    Omar Al-Ghazzi | Assistant Professor

    Omar is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communications. He researches the reporting and representation of conflict, digital journalism and the politics of time and memory, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa.

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    Sara Alqaiwani | Guest Teacher

    Sara is a teacher of International History at LSE, where she completed her PhD, and J-Term Visiting Professor at NYU-Abu Dhabi. She has also worked as an opera singer. Her interests are on MENA, decolonisation, gender and the performing arts.

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    Nigel Ashton | Professor

    Nigel is Professor of International History at LSE. His main research surrounds the fields of contemporary Anglo-American relations and the international history of the Middle East.

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    Lydia Assouad | Assistant Professor

    Lydia is Assistant Professor of International Development at LSE. Her research lies at the intersection of political economy, development economics and economic history, with a particular focus on the Middle East.

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    Dr Deema Awad | Assistant Professor

    Deema is currently LSE Fellow in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science where she teaches on the BSc Psychological and Behavioural Science programme.

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    Martin W. Bauer | Professor

    Martin is Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the LSE, and Co-PI on the Kuwait Programme project on science culture in Kuwait.

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    Federica Bicchi | Associate Professor

    Federica is Associate Professor of International Relations of Europe at LSE. Her research interest lies in EU foreign policy and external relations - especially as they relate to the Middle East and to the Mediterranean.

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    Ryan Centner | Assistant Professor

    Ryan is Assistant Professor of Urban Geography at LSE. His research revolves around a core interest in urban transformation at the nexus of social, spatial, and economic change.

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    John Chalcraft | Professor

    John is Professor of Middle East History and Politics at the Department of Government. He works on history and politics ‘from below’ in the modern Middle East and North Africa.

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    Ernestina Coast | Professor

    Ernestina is Professor of Health and International Development at the Department of International Development at LSE.

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    Joan Costa-i-Font | Associate Professor

    Joan is Associate Professor (Reader) in Health Economics at the Department of Health Policy at LSE.

  • Nuno Ferreira da Cruz

    Nuno F. da Cruz | Senior Associate

    Nuno is a Senior Associate at LSE Cities and an interdisciplinary academic working in the field of urban governance.

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    Muna Dajani | LSE Fellow

    Muna is an LSE Fellow in Environment in the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. Her work aims to understand environmental and water governance through decolonial and critical lenses.

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    Hassan Damluji | Senior Visiting Fellow

    Hassan is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of International Relations at LSE. He is co-founder of Global Nation, a think/do-tank that reimagines international cooperation.

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    Yazan Doughan | Assistant Professor

    Yazan is Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology. He researches the question of social justice in contemporary postcolonial contexts, particularly in Jordan.

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    Shereen Fernandez | ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow

    Shereen is a Fellow at LSE100. Her research looks at global Islamophobia, particularly technologies of pre-emptive securitisation and surveillance, with a focus on racialised Muslims.

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    George Gaskell | Emeritus Professor

    George is Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology and Research Methodology at the Department of Methodology at LSE.

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    Mazen Gharibah | Research Associate

    Mazen is Research Associate at the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit in the Department of International Development at LSE. His work focuses on the role of governance during and post conflict with a focus on Syria.

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    Pooya Ghoddousi | LSE Fellow

    Pooya is an LSE Fellow in Human Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment. His research focuses on nomadism, identity and Iran.

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    Jeremy Ginges | Professor

    Jeremy is a Professor in Behavioural Science. His research focuses on two related problems: how do humans decide whether to cooperate across cultural boundaries, and why do people sacrifice everything (their own lives, the lives of loved ones) for an abstract cause like nation or god?

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    Alexandra Gomes | Research Fellow

    Alexandra is Research Fellow at LSE Cities and is PI on a ACAUP projectand Co-PI on a Kuwait Programme project. Her projects focus on urban planning, public space and mobilty.

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    Yaprak Gürsoy | Professor

    Yaprak is Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE. Her main areas of interest are Turkey’s relations with the West and the UK, and Turkish politics in comparison with Europe.

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    Ellen Helsper | Professor

    Ellen is Professor of Digital Inequalities at the Department of Media and Communications. She is a Co-PI on the Kuwait Programme project 'Evaluating Digital Skills and Tangible Outcomes in Kuwait'.

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    Steffen Hertog | Associate Professor

    Steffen is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics in the Department of Government. Steffen’s main interest lies in Gulf and Middle East political economy, with a specific focus on the political economy of public sectors, state-business relations and labour markets.

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    Jennifer Jackson-Preece | Associate Professor

    Jennifer is Associate Professor in Nationalism at the European Institute and the Department of International Relations at LSE. She is PI on an MEC collaboration project with UAEU.

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    Naila Kabeer | Emeritus Professor

    Naila is Professor of Gender and Development at LSE. Her research interests include gender, poverty, and social exclusion, her research is mostly focused on South and South East Asia.

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    Emrah Karakus | LSE Fellow

    Emrah is a Fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at LSE. His interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of cultural anthropology, critical security studies, and gender and sexuality studies, with a focus on the modern Middle East.

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    Adnan Khan | Professor in Practice

    Adnan is Professor at the School of Public Policy. He works on state capacity and fragility, development and geoeconomics. He has worked as Chief Economist and Director Analysis at FCDO and at the International Growth Centre.

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    Mohsen Khezri | Visiting Senior Fellow

    Mohsen is Visiting Senior Fellow at the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. His research applies advanced econometric methodologies to investigate critical issues in environmental and energy economics, intending to inform policy decisions in oil-exporting nations.

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    Tiziana Leone | Professor

    Tiziana is Professor in Health and International Development at LSE.

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    Sara Mehryar | Research Fellow

    Sara is a research fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Her research is mainly focused on supporting decision-making and governance of climate change adaptation and resilience.

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    Anahita Motazed Rad | Visiting Senior Fellow

    Anahita is Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of International Relations, LSE. Her research focuses on international politics and development in the Middle East, specifically in Iran.

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    Susana Mourato | Professor

    Susana is Professor of Environmental Economics, Academic Director of LSE Summer School, and Associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

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    Mohamed Saleh | Associate Professor

    Mohamed is Associate Professor of Economic History at LSE. His research is focused on the Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa.

  • Sara Salem

    Sara Salem | Assistant Professor

    Sara is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology. Her work explores the connections between postcolonial theory and Marxism, with special attention to the context of Egypt.

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    Hakan Sandal-Wilson | Assistant Professor

    Hakan is Assistant Professor of Gender, Peace and Security at the Department of Gender Studies, LSE. His research critically interrogates gender and sexuality in relation to war, peace and conflict, as well as ethnicity, religion, and migration.

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    Romola Sanyal | Associate Professor

    Romola is Associate Professor in Urban Geography at LSE. Her research focuses on the relationship between forced migration and urbanisation with a focus on India and Lebanon.

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    Hakan Seckinelgin | Associate Professor

    Hakan is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Policy at LSE. His work focuses on both the epistemology and politics of international social policy.

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    Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington | Assistant Professor

    Jennifer is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at LSE. Her research investigates the psychological impact of experiencing low socioeconomic status at times of rising inequality.

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    Hyun Bang Shin | Professor

    Hyun is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at LSE. He is PI on the Kuwait Programme project 'Asian Capital and the Rise of Smart Urbanism in Kuwait'.

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    Ganga Shreedhar | Assistant Professor

    Ganga is Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE. She is interested in how, when and why people take action – or fail to – to address complex global environmental social dilemmas.

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    Gagan Sood | Assistant Professor

    Gagan is Assistant Professor at the Department of International History at LSE. His main research interests lie in the Middle East and South Asia between the 17th and 19th centuries.

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    Swenja Surminski | Professor in Practice

    Swenja is a Professor in Practice at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and PI on a Kuwait Programme project on flood resilience in Kuwait.

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    Buğra Süsler | Visiting Fellow

    Buğra is Visiting Fellow at LSE IDEAS. His research focuses on Turkish foreign policy, emerging powers, and international conflict and cooperation.

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    Miriam Tresh | Assistant Professorial Lecturer

    Miriam is Assistant Professorial Lecturer at the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE. Her research looks at public perceptions and the psychological impact of Covid-19 in Libya.

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    Mai Taha | Assistant Professor

    Mai is an Assistant Professor in Human Rights at the Department of Sociology. Mai has written on international law and empire, human rights, labour movements, class and gender relations, and care work and social reproduction.

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    Rim Turkmani | Research Fellow

    Rim is Research Fellow at the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit at LSE. She directs the Syria conflict research programme at the Unit.

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    James Walters | Professor in Practice

    Jim is Professor in Practice in the Department of International Relations and leads the LSE Religion and Global Society research unit. He is active in interfaith dialogues across the Middle East and leads educational visits to Israel and Palestine that deepen students’ understanding of the religious dimensions of the conflict.

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    Frederick Wojnarowski | Research Fellow

    Frederick is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology. Fred is interested in the political and economic anthropology and history of the Middle East, especially Jordan, as well as broader questions of social change and socio-political categorisation.