Research Students

Current Research Students

Name: Omar Elmougy
Thesis: Democracy, elite settlements, Islamism, and transnational power in contemporary Egypt

Name: Reza Pankhurst
Thesis: The Caliphate in the Discourse of the Twentieth Century

Name: Amelie Barras
Thesis: Refashioning secularism in France and Turkey: the case of the headscarf ban

Name: Francesca Biancani
Thesis: “Let Down the Curtain Around Us”, Prostitution in Colonial Cairo (1882-1952)

Name: Mike Farquhar
Thesis: Contemporary Islamic Piety Movements and the influence of Saudi Arabia

Name: Amelie Barras
Thesis: Refashioning secularism in France and Turkey: the case of the headscarf ban

Name: Alia Mossallam
Thesis: Imagining Otherwise in Nasser's Egypt

Name: Suzanne Morrison
Thesis: Counter-Hegemonic Social Forces in Palestine: A Neo-Gramscian Approach to the Al-Aqsa Intifada

Former Research Students

Name: Christine M. Laidlaw (Univ. of Edinburgh)
Thesis: "British Society in 18th century Levant: the factory communities behind the 'Turkey trade'"
Completed: 2005

Name: Michael Marten (Univ. of Edinburgh)
Thesis: "Attempting to bring the gospel home: Scottish Presbyterian churches’ missionary efforts to the Christians, Jews and Muslims of Palestine, 1839-1917"
Completed: 2003

Name: Ahmad Jamil Hamad (Univ. of Edinburgh)
Thesis: "Jerusalem and the Politics of Settlement in the Middle East"
Completed: 2002