Ahmed Ezzat

PhD candidate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

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

PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education

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

MPhil candidate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

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.

Samir Saad

PhD candidate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

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

MPhil candidate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

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.