Graduate Students
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Ahmed Ezzat
Ahmed is studying the ‘History and culture of lawfare in Egypt – The Case of Institutionalising the Prerogative State within Egypt’s Normal juridical Order.
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Amina Shareef
Amina’s study investigates the impact of the discourses of community cohesion and counter-terrorism on young British Muslim sense of self and belonging. The key areas of interest are identity and citizenship-making in a global age within the boundaries of nation.
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Mohammad Adnan
Mohammad received his B.A. in History at Princeton University, and an MSc in Modern South Asian Studies at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. His MPhil thesis traces the history of French missionary schools in Tehran during the Pahlavi period. At Cambridge, he is a member of Wolfson College.
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Samir Saad
Samir is researching the political history of law-making in the late Ottoman Empire, Syria and Jordan between about 1860 and 1978. He is surveying the attitudes of political agents toward reform legislation, and the ways in which politics influenced the preparation and adoption of such legislation in the face of crisis and change.
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Casper Sanderson
Casper has received an MA (Hons) in Arabic, Persian and Russian at the University of St Andrews. His MPhil thesis examines the manifestations of dissent in contemporary Iranian hip-hop through the lenses of Instagram and Youtube, focusing notably on the rapper Amir Tataloo.
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Mahdi Chowdhury
Mahdi is doing a one year Masters looking at ‘Medicalizing Hajj: Kamaran and Tor’.
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Muhammad Imran Khan
Imran is looking at the question of friendship in Islam – using comparison and analysis of inter-genre exegeses on the meaning of friendship to Muslim scholars in the following texts and literatures: i) tafsir ii) sufi and iii) philosophical.
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Philip Rushworth
Philip is completing his PhD on an ethnography of young, displaced Syrian and Palestinian men in the city of Dresden.
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Rachel Kaliszewski
Rachel’s research is focused on the changing dynamics of power and resistance in contemporary conflict, and will be completed under the supervision of Dr Glen Rangwala.
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Melissa Gatter
Melissa did her MPhil on “Dar’awi Refugees and the Future of Syria”. She is working on the resilience of social networks among Syrians living in Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp. She aims to understand how social relationships vital to community life before statelessness transform in the space of the camp.
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Matteo Benuzzi
(2016-2017)
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Dorothea Ramahi
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Samar Samir Mezghanni
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