Professor Mashood Baderin Islamic Law, International and Comparative Human Rights Law, Public International Law, Human Rights & Islamic Law, especially interaction between International Law, Human Rights Law, and Islamic Law in Muslim States.
Professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak This year Professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland, is Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at SOAS and the Centre for Iranian Studies (CIS) at the London Middle East Institute where he will be offering several lectures, completing his research project on the exilic mode in Persian literature, and providing consultation in the process of the expansion and updating of the Department's course offerings and areas of research development.
Sex work and trafficking research, and its ethics This is an interim report of an on-going 9-country international collaborative research project on migrant sex work and trafficking in persons. It tries to answer a crucial question for sex workers on the move: which conditions and resources would make migrants’ journeys into the sex trade safer?
Dr Sara Stevano Social reproduction, Intersecting or co-constituted inequalities, Work and employment, Food and nutrition, Development processes and hierarchies, Methodology for political economy.
Professor Naomi Hossain Politics of development, Bangladesh, Protest, Disaster politics, Civil society, Social movements, Famine.
Professor Dina Matar Middle East, especially Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, international political communication; media and conflict; critical global media studies; activism and media; social movements; memory studies and oral history; diasporas and ethnic minorities.