Arab-Israeli Conflict
Academics
- Dr Ian Black (Expertise: Israel; Palestine; history of the Middle East)
- Professor Fawaz Gerges (Islam and the political process; Islamist movements and jihadist groups; the Arab-Israeli conflict; state and society in the Middle East; American foreign policy towards the Muslim world)
- Dr Aitemad Muhanna-Matar (occupied Palestinian territory; Tunisia; Egypt; Morocco; Yemen; Jordan; Lebanon; gender; radicalisation)
- Professor Kirsten Schulze (Aceh conflict; Arab-Israeli conflict; Indonesian politics and security; Islamic groups; Israeli politics; Israeli security; Middle East peace process; free Aceh movement (GAM); regional conflicts in Indonesia; security sector reform)
- Priscilla Toffano (Palestine; Middle East; conflict; macroeconomics)
Research Students
- Haneen Naamneh (occupied Palestinian territory; Israel; law; human rights)
Contentious Politics
Academics
- Dr John Chalcraft (Egypt; Lebanon; Middle East; Syria; guilds; hegemony; history from below; history; labour; migration; postcolonialism; social movements; transnationalism)
Democracy/Democracy Promotion
Academics
- Dr Federica Bicchi (Department of International Relations)
Diplomatic History
Academics
- Dr Roham Alvandi (Department of International History)
Economics
Academics
- Dr Duha Al-Kuwari (LSE Middle East Centre Visiting Fellow)
Research Students
- Alaa Tartir (Department of International Development; Research: Governance without a State: Security and Economy Governance in Palestine: Fayyadism, Development and Aid Dependency, and State-Building)
Economic History
Research Students
- Ulas Karakoc (Department of Economic History; Research: The growth and stagnation in the age of de-globalization: Reinterpreting economic history of Egypt and Turkey in the interwar period)
Environmental Policy
Academics
- Dr Michael Mason (Department of Geography and Environment/Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment)
Gender
Academics
- Dr Aitemad Muhanna (LSE Middle East Centre Visiting Fellow)
Research Students
- Gustavo Barbosa (Department of Anthropology; Research: On Doing/Undoing Gender in Shatila, Lebanon: Becoming a Man under Institutional Violence)
Governance & State-Building
Research Students
- Alaa Tartir (Department of International Development; Research: Governance without a State: Security and Economy Governance in Palestine: Fayyadism, Development and Aid Dependency, and State-Building)
- Tobias Thiel (Department of International History)
Historical Sociology
Academics
- Professor Fawaz Gerges (Department of International Relations)
Research Students
- Neil Ketchley (Government Department; Research: Interwar Islamic social and political activism (1912-1942): the trajectories, metamorphoses and legacies of early mass Islamic politics)
Human Rights
Academics
- Dr Katerina Dalacoura (Department of International Relations)
Research Students
- Filippo Dionigi (Department of International Relations; Research: The Impact of international norms on Islamist movements: the case of Hezbollah)
International Development
Research Students
- Alaa Tartir (Department of International Development; Research: Governance without a State: Security and Economy Governance in Palestine: Fayyadism, Development and Aid Dependency, and State-Building)
Kurds
Academics
- Dr Roham Alvandi (Department of International History)
- Professor Saad Jawad (LSE Middle East Centre Senior Visiting Fellow)
Research Students
- Bryan Gibson (Department of International History; Research: American Foreign Policy and the Kurdish-Iraqi Civil War, 1961-1975)
- Zeynep Kaya (International Relations Department; Research: Maps into Nations? Kurdistan, the ideal homeland of Kurdish Nationalism)
Law/Legal Theory
Research Students
- Perveen Ali (Department of Law, LSE Centre for the Student of Human Rights, Refugee Law Initiative (School of Advanced Studies); Research: States in Crisis: Sovereignty, Humanitarianism, and Refugee Protection in the Aftermath of the 2003 Iraq War)
- Hedi Viterbo (Department of Law; Research: The Legal Construction of Childhood in the Occupied Palestinian Territories)
Media
- Dr Fatima El-Issawi (POLIS/Department of Media and Communications)
Muslim Brotherhood
Academics
- Professor Fawaz Gerges (Department of International Relations)
Research Students
- Neil Ketchley (Government Department; Research: Interwar Islamic social and political activism (1912-1942): the trajectories, metamorphoses and legacies of early mass Islamic politics)
Nationalism
Research Students
- Zeynep Kaya (International Relations Department; Research: Maps into Nations? Kurdistan, the ideal homeland of Kurdish Nationalism)
- Nabila Ramdani (Deparment of International History; Research: British and American Foreign Policy: The Case of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution)
- Laura Ryseck (Department of International History; Research: The search for national identitx in postcolonial- multi-communal states: the cases of Eritrea and Lebanon, 1941-1991)
Oil
- Professor Mary Kaldor (Department of International Development)
- Dr Zhand Shakibi (Department of Government)
Political Economy
Academics
- Dr Steffen Hertog (Department of Government)
Research Students
- Ulas Karakoc (Department of Economic History; Research: The growth and stagnation in the age of de-globalization: Reinterpreting economic history of Egypt and Turkey in the interwar period)
- Alaa Tartir (Department of International Development; Research: Governance without a State: Security and Economy Governance in Palestine: Fayyadism, Development and Aid Dependency, and State-Building)
Political Islam
Academics
- Dr Katerina Dalacoura (Department of International Relations)
- Professor Fawaz Gerges (Department of International Relations)
- Dr Steffen Hertog (Department of Government)
- Professor John Sidel (Department of Government)
Research Students
- Filippo Dionigi (Department of International Relations; Research: The Impact of international norms on Islamist movements: the case of Hezbollah)
- Neil Ketchley (Department of Government; Research: Interwar Islamic social and political activism (1912-1942): the trajectories, metamorphoses and legacies of early mass Islamic politics)
Refugees
Research Students
- Perveen Ali (Department of Law, LSE Centre for the Student of Human Rights, Refugee Law Initiative (School of Advanced Studies); Research: States in Crisis: Sovereignty, Humanitarianism, and Refugee Protection in the Aftermath of the 2003 Iraq War)
- Gustavo Barbosa (Department of Anthropology; Research: On Doing/Undoing Gender in Shatila, Lebanon: Becoming a Man under Institutional Violence)
Renewable Energy
Academics
- Dr Michael Mason (Department of Geography and Environment/Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment)
Social Movements
Research Students
- Neil Ketchley (Government Department; Research: Interwar Islamic social and political activism (1912-1942): the trajectories, metamorphoses and legacies of early mass Islamic politics)
- Tobias Thiel (Department of International History)
Terrorism
Academics
- Dr Steffen Hertog (Department of Government; Research: comparative political economy, comparative politics of the developing world, Gulf and Middle East politics)
Research Students
- Tobias Thiel (Department of International History)