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Middle East
Parent category: European & other international expertise
Mr Khalil al-Anani
Doctoral Research Student, School of Government and International Affairs
Specialist expertise:
Professor Robin Coningham
Professor , Department of Archaeology
Telephone: 41145 (Faculty Telephone 42904)
Pro-Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Health
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42904
Specialist expertise:
- Bangladesh
- Buddhism
- Caste
- Heritage
- Identity and the past
- India
- Indian Ocean
- Iran
- Looting
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Persia
- Persian Gulf
- South Asia
- Sri Lanka
- Trade in illict antiquities
- Urbanism and cities
Prof Anoush Ehteshami
Professor, Director of the Al-Sabah Programme and Joint Director of the ESRC Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, School of Government and International Affairs
Special Advisor to the Islamic Crimnal Justice Project, Centre for Criminal Law & Justice
Specialist expertise:
- Arab-Israeli relations
- Central Asia
- defence
- international defence-related issues (nuclear proliferation, etc.)
- Iran, Iraq & other Gulf states
- Islamic fundamentalism
- Middle East
- Middle Eastern politics
- Politics of the Red Sea
- security & strategic affairs
Dr A. Maria A. Kastrinou
Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology
Specialist expertise:
Prof Emma Murphy
Professor, School of Government and International Affairs
Specialist expertise:
- Arab-Israeli conflict & Palestinian issues
- Arab-Israeli politics
- economic liberalisation
- North African affairs
Prof Graham Philip
Professor, Department of Archaeology
Specialist expertise:
- antiquities
- archaeology and the Bible
- Middle East archaeology and politics
- Middle East Politics
- Middle East, archaeology
- pre-classical history
Mrs Janet Starkey
Honorary Research Associate, Department of Anthropology
Specialist expertise:
- Anthropology of the Middle East and Islamic communities
- Arabian Studies in archaeology, history and ethnography
- Ethnography in museums
- Travellers to and from the Middle East
Professor Paul Starkey
Professor, School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 45667
Specialist expertise:
- Arabic
- Arabic language and literature