London Middle East LONDON Institute at SOAS MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE Annual Report 2014/2015 and Financial Report 2013/2014 LMEI ORGANISATION AND MEMBERSHIP

Staff of the London Middle East Donations, Sponsorship and Affiliations Institute Founding Patron and Donor of the LMEI Director: Dr Hassan Hakimian Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber, Executive Officer and Company Secretary: MBI Al Jaber Foundation Ms Louise Hosking Events and Magazine Coordinator: Corporate Sponsor Mr Vincenzo Paci MENA Regional Consulting Limited (MENARC) Administrative Assistant: Ms Valentina Zanardi Coordinating Editor (Middle East in London Institutional Affiliates Magazine): Ms Megan Wang Aga Khan University (International) Institute for Designer (Middle East in London Magazine): the Study of Muslim Civilisations Ms Shahla Geramipour The Arab-British Centre Bonyad Jaleh Esfahani British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA) The British-Yemeni Society Centre for Supporters of Human Rights LMEI Board of Trustees Forum LSE Middle East Centre Professor Paul Webley (Chair), Naghmeh Ensemble Director, SOAS Petroleum Institute Professor Richard Black, SOAS Poetry and Music Chamber of Iranians in Dr John Curtis, Iran Heritage Foundation the UK Sir Vincent Fean Professor Ben Fortna, SOAS Mr Alan Jenkins Dr Karima Laachir, SOAS Corporate Sponsorship is £1,500 per year. Dr Dina Matar, SOAS Benefits include those enjoyed by Institutional Dr Barbara Zollner, Birkbeck College Affiliates, please see below, together with up to two tailored private briefings per year, free copies of LMEI occasional papers, and special advertising rates with the LMEI. Institutional Affiliation is £250 per year. LMEI Advisory Council Institutional Affiliates are entitled to the same Lady Barbara Judge (Chair) benefits as Individual Affiliates, please see below, Professor Muhammad Abdel-Haleem, SOAS along with the free use of a room at SOAS for an HE Mr Khaled al-Duwaisan GCVO, event lasting up to two hours, and up to four copies Ambassador, Embassy of the State of Kuwait of each edition of the magazine. They will also be Mrs Haifa Al Kaylani, Arab International acknowledged in LMEI publicity material, including Women’s Forum the website: www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/. Dr Khalid Bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, President, University College of Bahrain Individual Affiliates pay £30 per year with Professor Tony Allan, King’s College reduced rates for concessions (£20) and and SOAS students (£10), for which they receive an annual Dr Alanoud Alsharekh, Senior Fellow for subscription to ‘The Middle East in London’ Regional Politics, IISS magazine, inclusion on e-mail and mailing lists for Mr Farad Azima, NetScientific Plc notification of upcoming events, and special rates Dr Noel Brehony, MENAS Associates Ltd for LMEI conferences and publications. Professor Magdy Ishak Hanna, British Egyptian Society HE Mr Mazen Kemal Homoud, Ambassador, Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

LMEI Research Associates Dr Hamid Keshmirshekan Dr George Joffé Dr Kathryn Spellman Poots Professor Sami Zubaida The aim of the LMEI, through education and research, is to promote knowledge of all aspects of the Middle East including its complexities, problems, achievements and assets, both among the general public and with those who have special interest in the region.

In this task it builds on two essential assets. First, it is based in London, a city which has unrivalled contemporary and historical connections and communications with the Middle East: political, social, cultural, commercial, scientific and educational. Secondly, the LMEI is at SOAS, the only tertiary educational institution in the world whose explicit purpose is to provide training and scholarship on the whole Middle East from prehistory until today. Contents

Director’s Letter 4 ------Event Highlights 6 ------Calendar of Events 8 ------Centre for Iranian Studies 12 ------Centre for Palestine Studies 16 ------Publications 18 ------Visiting Scholars 22 ------Summer School 25 ------PhD Theses on the Middle East 26 ------Acknowledgements 29 ------Financial Statement 30 ------Directory of Academic Members 32 ------4 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Director’s Letter LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 5

The 2014/15 academic year was a particularly fruitful time in the life of the London Middle East Institute.

Our first full year at LMEI’s new premises at 21 Russell Square (the MBI Al Jaber Building) saw several new initiatives as we were able to accommodate more researchers and visiting fellows. The initiatives in this report – a mixture of old and new – are a testament to the range and diversity of LMEI’s interests as well as to the high quality of regional expertise, from inside and outside SOAS, on which we draw.

Our two sub-centres – The Centre for Iranian Studies and The Centre for Palestine Studies – continue to play active roles. They have maintained their provision of needed academic expertise in their fields and galvanised much energy and interest, as evidenced by the various academic and cultural events reported in this volume.

Likewise, our flagship magazine The Middle East in London continues as a cornerstone of our outreach activities. Exciting and new programmes have not prevented us from attending to our longer-term and continuing interests and commitments. You will get a sense of our other busy schedules throughout the year by glancing through this report: from our regular lecture series on the contemporary Middle East to various occasional lectures, debating panels, cultural events, book launches and, of course, publications.

Given the continued and intense interest in the developments of our region, I remain convinced of the pertinence of our mission and remit for both the academic milieu and the wider communities. 6 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Event Highlights LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 7

Economic Diversification in the GCC: Past, Yemen Strategy, which includes security, stability and Present and Future development objectives. The LMEI’s March conference on the Hadhramaut entitled Rediscovering Hadhramaut: The LMEI was pleased to welcome back Timothy Callen, Paradigms of Research, was organised in conjunction Assistant Director in the IMF’s Middle East and Central with the newly founded Hadhramaut Research Centre Asia Department, in February 2015 to give a talk on (HRC) and sponsored by MENARC and the BYS. It Economic Diversification in the GCC: Past, Present, featured distinguished academics from across the world and Future. This was Callen’s second public event who participated in panels on Hadhrami emigration to at the LMEI; his first a talk in 2014 on the Economic different regions and issues of integration pertaining to Prospects and Policy Challenges in the Gulf Cooperation the Hadhrami diaspora, the present level of development Council (GCC) Countries. Basing his lecture on a of the Hadhramaut and strategies for future development. paper published by the IMF in December 2014 Callen argued that successful economic diversification in the The Kurds in the Middle East: New Developments six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries would and Prospects require realigning incentives for firms and workers in the economies and that fixing these incentives is the missing On 24 April the LMEI organised another timely conference link in the GCC countries’ diversification strategies. Callen since Kurdish autonomy has been a fact in Northern went on to lay out a number of measures that could begin Iraq for more than two decades and is now unfolding in to address these incentive issues such as limiting and Eastern Syria too since the beginning of the uprising in reorienting government spending, strengthening private- that country in 2011. The conference addressed a number sector competition, providing guarantees and financial of important issues including the future of the Kurds and support for those firms engaged in export activity, and the states of Iraq, Syria and Turkey, how to assess the implementing labour market reforms to make nationals ‘democratic autonomy’ project of the Kurdish movement more competitive for private-sector employment. in Syria and Turkey, the prospects of the peace talks in Turkey and whether or not the Kurdish movement in Iran A Focus on Yemen is immune to the developments in Syria and Turkey.

The LMEI also hosted a number of high-profile events on the Yemen including the second British-Yemeni Society (BYS) Annual Lecture on 4 February and a one-day conference on the Hadhramaut on 7 March. This year’s speaker at the former, organised with the British-Yemeni Society and sponsored by the MBI Al Jaber Foundation, was the Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan MP who gave a lecture on Yemen: The Fight for Stability and Hope, Sir Alan Duncan has played a key role in Britain’s relations with Yemen in his period as Minister of State in the Department of International Aid from 2010 to 2014. During his tenure as Minister he visited Yemen several times and was closely involved in the UK’s co-chairmanship of the Friends of Yemen process and in shaping the UK’s assistance programme to Yemen. In 2014 he was appointed the British government’s Special Envoy to Yemen in which role he worked to help deliver the government’s

Participants at an LMEI seminar 8 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Calendar of Events LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 9

The following is a list of the broad range of events 02 Dec Why Yemen Matters: Development, Security organised by the LMEI, in the 2014/15 academic year, and the Rhetoric of Unity either solely or in partnership with other institutions. Helen Lackner, The British-Yemeni Society Chair: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS

Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme 09 Dec Palestine: The Invisible Damage of Life on the Contemporary Middle East under Occupation Samah Jabr, Psychiatrist Chair: Dina Matar, SOAS Organised jointly with the Centre for Palestine 07 Oct Simin Behbahani: A Career in Poetry Studies and the UK-Palestine Mental Health Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland Network. and SOAS Chair: Hassan Hakimian, LMEI 20 Jan Israel/Palestine: Does Recognising Both Organised jointly with the Centre for Iranian States Make a Difference? Studies. Sir Vincent Fean KCVO, former UK Consul General to Jerusalem 14 Oct The Arab Uprisings - Driven by Youth or Chair: Dina Matar, SOAS Adults? Organised jointly with the Centre for Palestine Zafiris Tzannatos, formerly American University Studies. of Beirut and World Bank Chair: Hassan Hakimian, LMEI 27 Jan The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism 21 Oct The European Union and Occupied Toby Matthiesen, University of Cambridge Palestinian Territories: State-building Chair: Nelida Fuccaro, SOAS without a State Dimitris Bouris, College of Europe 17 Feb Contemporary Art from the Middle East: Chair: Atef Alshaer, University of Westminster Regional Interactions with Global Art Organised jointly with the Centre for Palestine Discourses Studies. Hamid Keshmirshekan, LMEI & Venetia Porter, British Museum 28 Oct British Policy and Arab Displacement Chair: Anna Contadini, SOAS in Palestine, 1915-23: Contingency, Imperialism and Double-dealing 24 Feb 3rd Leverhulme Lecture William Mathew, University of East Anglia Manichean Aesthetics: Observations on the Chair: Dina Matar, SOAS Poetry of the Organised jointly with the Centre for Palestine Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, SOAS & University of Studies. Maryland Chair: Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS 11 Nov The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Organised jointly with the Centre for Cultural, Communication. A Panel Discussion Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS). Atef Alshaer, University of Westminster; Lina Khatib, Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut 03 Mar The Caliphate: Back to the Future? and Dina Matar, Centre for Media Studies, S Sayyid, University of Leeds; Madawi Al- SOAS Rasheed, Middle East Centre at LSE and the Open Society Foundation; Reza Pankhurst, 18 Nov The Persian–Portuguese Encounter in academic and author Hormuz Chair: AbdoolKarim A. Vakil, King’s College Ghoncheh Tazmini, former Iran Heritage London Foundation (IHF) Visiting Fellow, Centre for Iranian Studies 10 Mar The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Chair: Seyed Ali Alavi, SOAS Allah and His People Organised jointly with the Centre for Iranian Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University, Studies. Budapest Discussant: Gerald Hawting, SOAS 25 Nov Panel on the Iranian Economy Chair: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS Hassan Hakimian, LMEI; Parvin Alizadeh, Boston University Study Abroad; Kamiar 17 Mar Traditional Building Practices Influencing Mohaddes, University of Cambridge and Sima the Shaping of Iranian Architectural Language Motamen-Samadian, Centre for the Study of from the 10th Century Onwards Advanced and Emerging Markets Stefania Petralla, Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS Chair: Massoud Karshenas, SOAS Chair: Pamela Karimi, Centre for Iranian Studies, Organised jointly with the Centre for Iranian SOAS & University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Studies. Organised jointly with the Centre for Iranian Studies. 10 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Seminars on Turkey 20 Jan Baysunghur’s Books: Codifying Form and Aesthetic Value

Seminar series organised by the LMEI Modern Turkish Studies Programme. Sponsored by Nurol Bank. Convened by Benjamin Fortna, SOAS. Other Events

31 Oct Virtue in the Marketplace: Veiled Designer- Entrepreneurs in Istanbul 25 Sep Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the End Magda Craciun, UCL of Empire (Lecture) Aaron Edwards 28 Nov The ‘New Turkey’: Davutoğlu’s Justice and Organised by The British-Yemeni Society Development Party in association with the London Middle East Sinan Ciddi, ITS/Georgetown University Institute.

19 Dec Turkey’s Transitions: Integration, Inclusion, 26 Sep Beyond Religion: ISIS and the Crisis in Institutions – A New World Bank Study on the Middle East Turkey’s Rise, its Lessons and Limitations (Lecture) Ghias Aljundi, writer and human Martin Raiser, World Bank, Ankara rights activist; Charles Tripp, SOAS and Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS 30 Jan Crossing the Boundaries in Turkey and Chair: Hassan Hakimian, LMEI Germany: Islam, Christianity, Secularism Organised by the SOAS Students’ Union and Nationalism in association with the London Middle East Esra Özyürek, LSE Institute and the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS. 06 Feb Wars and the Fate of Empires: The Ottomans and their Rivals before 1800 29 Sep Caliphate: an Idea in history from Abu Bakr Gabor Agoston, Georgetown University al-Siddiq to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Lecture) Hugh Kennedy, SOAS 20 Mar The Eastern Question Seen from the East Chair: Hassan Hakimian, LMEI Sinan Kuneralp, ISIS Press, Istanbul Organised by the London Middle East Institute.

14 Oct How I Stopped Being a Jew (Lecture/Discussion) Shlomo Sand, University of Tel Aviv Discussant: David Feldman, Director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London Chair: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS Organised by the London Middle East Institute and the Centre for Jewish Studies.

23 Oct Youth Activism in Eastern Yemen: Mahra in Queuing for the ‘Beyond Religion’ Lecture at the Beginning Transition of the Academic Year (September 2014) (Lecture) Elisabeth Kendall Organised by The British-Yemeni Society Yarshater Lecture Series in association with the London Middle East Institute.

Four lectures by David Roxburgh, Harvard University 12 Nov Experiences from Iraq: What Really Went organised by the Islamic Art Circle and the Wrong London Middle East Institute. Chair: Scott Redford, SOAS (Lecture) Henry Hogger CMG, former British diplomat; Andrew Alderson, Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA); Paul Attenborough, ‘In the Rays of Light of Imperial Favour’: the Visual former member of the Coalition Provisional Arts of Early Fifteenth-Century Timurid Herat Authority (CPA); Husain al Chalabi, Iraq Energy Institute and Mehair Kathem, SOAS 15 Jan Timurid Herat: The City as a Setting for Art Organised by SOAS Students’ Union in and Literature association with the London Middle East Institute. 16 Jan The Timurid-Ming Embassy of 1419-22: Art after China 29 Nov Jaleh Esfahani Poetry Prize 2014 (Performance) Organised by the Bonyad Jaleh 19 Jan Modelling Artistic Process: The Kitābkhāna Esfahani in association with the London Middle and ʿArzadāsht East Institute. LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 11

03 Dec The Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture in Islamic Art and Culture: A Horse by a Pond and Other Congruities in Medieval Iranian Ceramic Decoration Oya Pancaroglu, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul Chair: Scott Redford, SOAS Organised by the Islamic Art Circle and the London Middle East Institute.

13 Dec A Night of Persian Traditional Musical Instruments and Concert, Vocal: Jamshid Rezaei (Concert) Organised by the Naghmeh Ensemble in association with the London Middle East Institute.

04 Feb The Second British-Yemeni Society (BYS) Annual Lecture: Yemen: The Fight for Stability and Hope Sir Alan Duncan Organised by The British-Yemeni Society and From Left, Professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Dr Michael the London Middle East Institute. Barry and Dr Hassan Hakimian Sponsored by the MBI Al Jaber Foundation.

05 Feb Economic Diversification in the GCC: Past, (Lecture) Eliane Ettmueller, Heidelberg Present and Future Organised by the London Middle East Institute (Seminar) Timothy Callen, International and the Centre for Jewish Studies. Monetary Fund (IMF) Chair: Hassan Hakimian, LMEI 15 May A Lecture on Mehdi Akhavan Saaless Organised by the London Middle East Institute. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland and SOAS 27 Feb A Lecture on Ahmad Shamlu Organised by Forum Iran and Bonyad Jaleh Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland Esfahani in association with the London Middle and SOAS East Institute. Organised by Forum Iran and Bonyad Jaleh Esfahani in association with the London Middle 19 May Islam and Politics in France East Institute. (Lecture) Moustafa Traore Organised by the Department of Politics and 07 Mar Rediscovering Hadhramaut: Paradigms of Interrnational Studies and the London Middle Research East Institute. (Conference) Organised by Hadhramaut Research Centre and the London Middle East 06 Jun Iranian Poetry and Classical Music Night Institute. (Concert) Organised by the Poetry and Music Sponsored by MENARC and the British- Chamber of Iranians in the UK in association Yemeni Society (BYS). with the London Middle East Institute.

24 Apr The Kurds in the Middle East: New 12-13 Jun Minorities and Popular Culture in the Developments and Prospects Modern Middle East: Representation and A one-day conference. Participation (Workshop) Organised by The Woolf Institute, 24 Apr A Lecture on Forugh Farokhzad Cambridge & The Centre for Cultural Literary Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland and Postcolonial Studies, SOAS. Sponsored and SOAS by the London Middle East Institute. Organised by Forum Iran and Bonyad Jaleh Esfahani in association with the London Middle East Institute. Consultancies 30 Apr Update on the Yemen Crisis (Meeting) Organised by The British-Yemeni Society in association with the London Middle 07 Nov Mitsubishi Corporation International East Institute. (Europe) Plc Briefing on Iraq

05 May A Jewish Pan-Islamistʼs Satirical 20-24 Apr UNICEF Middle East Briefing Propaganda for the Egyptian Nation: Yaqub Sanuaʼs becoming Sheikh Abou Naddara 14-16 Jul UNICEF Iraq Briefing 12 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

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on what is arguably the Persian poet’s masterpiece: the tales told by King Bahrām’s seven brides, enchanting adventures which draw upon Zoroastrian, Manichaean, Indian and even Classical Greek lore. In March the Centre also hosted the third and final session of the British Institute of Persian Studies’ one- week, residential intensive Persian Immersion Course. Postdoctoral researchers and early career academics, as well as professionals from the media, civil service and the arts who wished to consolidate their knowledge of written and spoken Persian were among the applicants. A total number of 34 students were eventually drawn from across the UK, EU, US and the Middle East to take part in the programme. In addition to simulating the environment Professor Richard Black, Dr Ali Sattaripour, Dr Cyrus Ala’i and Dr Hassan Hakimian at the Launch of the Maps of Iran of studying in Iran (Persian was the only permissible Exhibition language of instruction and communication from 9am to 9pm throughout the week), the course consisted of Entering its fifth year, the Centre for Iranian Studies has language acquisition and use sessions in the morning, become a principal focal point for the dissemination of followed by afternoon lectures and Q&A sessions. Iranian culture in London. On 22 November it held the Lectures were given on a variety of topics and students eleventh in The Idea of Iran series of annual symposia were also invited to Iranian film screenings in the evening entitled The Idea of Iran: Post-Mongol Polities and and went on a guided tour of the British Museum. the Reinvention of Iranian Identities. The symposium, organised in conjunction with The Courtauld Institute of The Centre was also pleased to announce a new Iran Art and sponsored by the Soudavar Memorial Foundation, Heritage Foundation (IHF) Visiting Fellowship in explored the cultural complexities of reinventing the Iran’s Environmental Sustainability at SOAS. The idea of Iran, focusing on aspects of cultural longevity first six-month fellowship was awarded to Dr Hamid and transformations in light of the post-Mongol pan- Pouran (see page 24) who joined LMEI in October 2014. Asian configurations. Papers were presented by leading The fellowship is devoted to promoting research and academics in the field on the , concepts of scholarship on Iran’s environmental challenges with the government and state formation in Mongol Iran, the aim of building on the successful international conference Maragha School and its impact on post-Mongol science in convened by IHF in January 2014 to foster awareness the Islamic world, Rashid al-Din’s late writings and Iranian about, and promote research on, Iran’s environmental sovereignty and Ilkhanid architecture. problems across a wide range of areas relating to:

With the support of the Persian Language Foundation and • Water and agricultural resources the Centre for Iranian Studies the Brunei Gallery at SOAS • Air and pollution hosted an exhibition entitled Maps of Persia 1477–1925: • Forests and woodlands A Graphical Journey through the • Wildlife and habitat from January through to March. The maps on display • Community development comprised important printed general maps of Persia and more specialist items from the early editions of Ptolemy To coincide with the Fellowship the Centre also announced and date from the end of the fifteenth century up until the a new seminar series entitled International Seminar end of the Qajar dynasty in 1925. They are part of the Series on Iran’s Environmental Sustainability at collection that was donated to the Centre in 2013 by the SOAS, made possible through the generous sponsorship noted scholar Dr Cyrus Ala’i that features over 250 maps of the Soudavar Memorial Foundation. displaying urban plans, topographic maps and sea charts. The full collection of maps is referred to as the Dr Cyrus Ala’i Map Collection of Persia and is managed by the Archives & Special Collections section of SOAS Library.

On 2 and 3 February the Centre held its third Kamran Djam Annual Lecture at SOAS with Michael Barry of Princeton University delivering this year’s lecture – divided into two parts – on the great Persian narrative poet Nizâmî. In his first illustrated lecture on Nizâmî: Mirror of the Unseen World Barry looked at how kings in Iran and Central Asia, Turkey and India vied between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries to sponsor production of the most magnificent manuscripts of the poet’s five romances, with illuminations by the civilisation’s most talented painters. He noted how the poet was indeed once regarded from Istanbul to Delhi as the mystical ‘Mirror of the Unseen World’. In his second lecture on Nizâmî’s Brides of the Seven Climes (Haft Paykar), Professor Barry focussed A map from the Maps of Iran exhibition 14 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Centre for Iranian Studies Events 23-28 Mar Persian Immersion Course Organised by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) and hosted by the Centre for Iranian Studies. 22 Nov The Idea of Iran: Post-Mongol Polities and the Reinvention of Iranian Identities 23 Apr Land of the Turquoise Mountains: Journeys (Conference) Marco Brambilla, Architect and Across Iran Architectural Historian; Olga Davidson, ILEX (Talk) Cyrus Massoudi, author Foundation; Tofigh Heidarzadeh, University Organised by the British Council, I.B. Tauris, of California, Riverside; Stefan Kamola, the Centre for Iranian Studies and the SOAS Princeton University; George Lane, SOAS; Iranian Society. Tomoko Masuya, The University of Tokyo and Charles Melville, Cambridge 01 Jun Out of Focus Organised by the Centre for Iranian Studies (Film Screening) Dir. Shahriar Siami, 51 min. and The Courtauld Institute of Art. Sponsored Documentary about the Iranian-born British by the Soudavar Memorial Foundation. artist based in London, Afshin Naghouni (Ash).

26 Nov Culture Wars in Iran: Repressive Tolerance or Irresistible Change (Lecture) Abbas Milani, Stanford University International Seminar Series on Iran’s Chair: Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS Environmental Sustainability at SOAS

08 Dec Iran’s Senate under Mohammad Reza (Lecture) Bianca Devos, University of Marburg Chair: Nima Mina, SOAS Organised by Centre for Iranian Studies. Sponsored by the Soudavar Memorial Foundation. 23 Jan- Maps of Persia 1477–1925: A Graphical 21 Mar Journey through the History of Iran Exhibition organised by the Centre for Iranian 13 Nov Iran’s Looming Water Crisis: Symptoms, Studies and the Brunei Gallery, SOAS. Roots and Exit Strategies Kaveh Madani, Centre for Environmental 02 Feb Kamran Djam Annual Lecture at SOAS: Policy, Imperial College London Nizâmî: Mirror of the Unseen World Chair: Tony Allan, King’s College London Michael Barry, Princeton University 27 Jan Water Culture Revival in Iran 03 Feb Kamran Djam Annual Lecture at SOAS: Sara Kamalvand, HydroCity Nizâmî’s Brides of the Seven Climes Michael Barry, Princeton University 18 Feb Soil Quality in Iran: Pollution, Erosion and Salinity 16 Mar Secular Domesticities, Shi’ite Modernities: Hamid Pouran, Centre for Iranian Studies Reflections on Iranians’ Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times (Lecture) Pamela Karimi, Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS & University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Students on March’s Persian Immersion Course LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 15 16 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

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of Palestine/Israel. Particular emphasis was placed on how the histories of Zionist settlement, anti-colonial and nation-building struggles and 20th century warfare in the Middle East region are being transformed in the current historical conjuncture and the ideological and political alliances that have emerged locally, regionally and globally around notions such as the ‘New Antisemitism’ and ‘Islamophobia’ and how these relate to racialised discourses against Jews and Muslims.

Centre for Palestine Studies Events

Sahar Khalifeh Gives the Second Annual Lecture of the 30 Sep Stateless Citizenship: Palestinian-Arab Centre for Palestine Studies Citizens in the Context of Liberal-Zionism (Lecture) Shourideh C Molavi, York University, In March 2015 the Centre held its second annual lecture Toronto. which was delivered by Sahar Khalifeh, the prominent Chair: Adam Hanieh, SOAS Palestinian novelist, widely acclaimed for being the first feminist Palestinian writer and, after Mahmoud Darwish, 28 Oct The Role of National Courts in Applying the most translated Palestinian author. Khalifeh’s lecture International Humanitarian Law entitled Caught Between Western Oppression and (Lecture) Sharon Weill, Sciences Po, Paris; Islamic Fundamentalist Suppression addressed the CERAH, Geneva University and The Graduate dilemma that today’s Palestinian women – and indeed Institute (IHEID) Arab women in general – find themselves in: faced on Chair: Nimer Sultany, SOAS the one hand with the free, liberal, secular, scientific, but also colonial West, and on the other with the inflexibility 09 Feb Anti-Jewish and Anti-Muslim Racisms and of an Islam that calls for resistance to the West and its the Question of Palestine/Israel concerns, but is blind to the sciences, to modernity, and to (Conference) Sponsored by University of East feminist and social emancipation. London’s Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, Centre for Palestine Sir Vincent Fean KCVO, former UK Consul General to Studies, SOAS, the Runnymede Trust and the Jerusalem, delivered a lecture in January 2015 on Israel/ LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights in Palestine – Does Recognising Both States Make a association with the Centre for Palestine Studies. Difference? as part of the LMEI’s Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East. 18 Feb ‘Life in Occupied Palestine’: Accounts of The lecture was organised jointly with the Centre for Existence and Other Acts of Resistance Palestine Studies. A keen exponent of the two-state (Lecture) Cynthia Franklin, University of Hawai‘i solution, Sir Vincent outlined the positive difference that Chair: Dina Matar, SOAS recognition of Palestine by the UK, France and other European states, following in the footsteps of Sweden, 05 Mar Centre for Palestine Studies Second would make. Sir Vincent went on to provide a framework Annual Lecture: Caught Between Western for genuine negotiations between Palestine and Israel Oppression and Islamic Fundamentalist under the auspices of the United Nations Security Council Suppression and endorsed by the US and he also addressed the Sahar Khalifeh growing challenge posed by illegal settlement activity Organised by the Centre for Palestine Studies which he stressed is a clear source of concern for the with the support of the A.M. Qattan Foundation. International Criminal Court. He concluded with setting forth the varying approaches of the UK’s own political 01 May Palestine Speaks, Narratives of Life under parties and explained how the UK could potentially take Occupation a lead in the three areas he highlighted for a just peace: (Book Launch) Cate Malek, Co-Editor and recognition of Palestine, re-setting the goals for a genuine Abeer Ayoub, Gaza-based media fixer negotiation under UN auspices and ensuring there were serious consequences for the illegal settler enterprise. 10 Jun Managing Palestinian Cultural Heritage: Between Threats and Opportunities In February the Centre co-sponsored a one-day conference (Lecture) Osama Hamdan, al-Quds University with the University of East London’s Centre for research Chair: Scott Redford, SOAS on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, the Runnymede Organised by the Centre for Palestine Studies Trust and the LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of the History of Art and on Anti-Jewish and Anti-Muslim Racisms and the Archaeology, SOAS. Question of Palestine/Israel. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and activists from a variety of backgrounds 17 Jun ‘Night in Gaza’: A Talk by Dr Mads Gilbert the conference sought to explore the multiple, complex Mads Gilbert and inter-related ways that anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim Organised by the SOAS Palestine Society in racisms are being constructed in relation to the question association with the Centre for Palestine Studies. 18 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

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The Middle East in London (MEL)

This year, LMEI’s bimonthly magazine –The Middle East Volume 10 - Number 5 October – November 2014 in London – expanded its scope by covering a variety £4 of new themes. The first issue of 2014/15 focused on youth in the Middle East: students, employees, Muslims, creative artists and victims of war. The second issue in December/January examined contemporary art and included information and reviews about relevant exhibitions on display in London, as well as interviews and profiles of Middle Eastern artists. The February/ March issue of the magazine focused on environmental concerns in the MENA region: water scarcity, depleted uranium, nanotechnology and the relationship between the environment and the preservation of cultural heritage represent a sampling of topics covered in the issue. The environment theme was so salient and well received that there was discussion among the editorial board of dedicating future issues to environment-related issues. In the spring the focus shifted to North Africa – with articles looking at the political, social and economic situations THIS ISSUE: Youth Ɣ The Arab uprisings, the economy and the labour market Ɣ The GCC employment policy dilemmas Ɣ Beyond the saga of the ‘Trojan horse’ Ɣ Salafism in Morocco, Libya, Algeria and Tunisia – and North and young women in London Ɣ Bombed into (temporary) silence Ɣ Singing playgrounds of African communities in the diaspora. The summer issue the Middle East Ɣ PLUS Reviews and events in London spotlighted Iraq, highlighting in particular the peoples and heritage under threat from ISIS. This issue was aptly timed and received praise for containing what was, when This year the editorial board bid a warm welcome to Ms the magazine was published, up-to-date information Janet Rady of Janet Rady Fine Art. Ms Rady has long about the situation on the ground. The magazine is set to been an invaluable resource for the magazine, patiently continue its innovative policies in the future with an issue dedicating her time and expertise to enhance its visual on endangered languages planned for the autumn. content even before she became an official member of the board. Now she continues to help, using her vast In keeping with past precedent The Middle East in London knowledge to forge links with relevant art galleries and has forged new connections with art galleries in London artists. and abroad. This year, Noon Arts and Ayyam Gallery have both had their artists’ works featured in the magazine. For more information on The Middle East in London visit Additionally, the magazine’s annual photography www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/ competition will run for a third year; entries have already started coming in and we hope to announce the winners in the December 2015–January 2016 issue.

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THIS ISSUE : ENVIRONMENT Ɣ Water resources in the Middle East Ɣ THIS ISSUE : CONTEMPORARY ART Ɣ The visual language of dissent Wars, depleted uranium and soil pollution Ɣ Iran’s looming water crisis Ɣ Cultural heritage Ɣ Un-representable narratives and contemporary amnesia Ɣ Ways of seeing Ɣ Arab animated and the environment Ɣ Can desalination provide a sustainable source of water? Ɣ The Nile cartoons, then and now Ɣ Photo competition results Ɣ PLUS Reviews and events in London Basin and hydrosolidarity Ɣ Nanotechnology Ɣ PLUS Reviews and events in London 20 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

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THIS ISSUE : NORTH AFRICA Ɣ Four tumultuous years Ɣ Activism and THIS ISSUE : IRAQ – People and Heritage Ɣ The rise and fall of ‘liberal’ authoritarianism Ɣ The media post-Arab uprisings Ɣ Imazighen away from home Ɣ An the nation Ɣ The Kurds and ISIS Ɣ The Yezidis of Sinjar Ɣ The artifice of the destruction of Algerian À ag in Exmouth Market Ɣ Su¿ s, Sala¿ s and militiamen in post-Qadda¿ Libya Ɣ North art in Iraq Ɣ Obliterating Iraq’s Christian heritage Ɣ Nimrud reduced to rubble Ɣ Interview with Africa’s failing energy promise Ɣ Oil squeeze on Algeria Ɣ The Libyan economy Ɣ PLUS Saad al-Jadir Ɣ Supporting humanities and culture for a sustainable Iraq Ɣ PLUS Reviews Reviews and events in London and events in London

Editorial Board of The Middle East in London Ms Sarah Searight, British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA) Professor Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS Dr Kathryn Spellman Poots, Aga Khan University Dr Hadi Enayat, Aga Khan University (International) (International) Institute for the Study of Muslim Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations Civilisations and LMEI Ms Narguess Farzad, SOAS Dr Sarah Stewart, SOAS Ms Nevsal Hughes, Association of European Journalists Ms Ionis Thompson, British Foundation for the Study of Dr George Joffé, Cambridge University Arabia (BFSA) and Saudi-British Society Ms Janet Rady, Janet Rady Fine Art Dr Shelagh Weir Mr Barnaby Rogerson Professor Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck College

The Age of the Seljuqs

Edited by Professor Edmund Herzig and Dr Sarah Stewart Published by I.B. Tauris

In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the new Turkic- Persian symbiosis that had emerged earlier under the Samanids, and Qarakhanids came to fruition in a period that, under the enlightened rule of the Seljuq dynasty, combined imperial grandeur with remarkable artistic achievement. This latest volume in The Idea of Iran series focuses on a system of government based on Turkic ‘men of the sword’ and Persian ‘men of the pen’ that the Seljuqs (famous foes of the Crusader Frankish knights) consolidated in a form that endured for centuries. The book further explores key topics relating to the innovative Seljuq era, including: conflicted SunniȃShi’a relations between the Sunni Seljuq empire and Ismaili Fatimid caliphate; architecture, art and culture; and politics and poetry. LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 21

The Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa Series

Series Editor: Hassan Hakimian, LMEI Published by Routledge

Launched in 2003, the Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa Series is devoted to widening in-depth analysis and understanding of the economic and political dynamics of the region. It has since established itself as a respected source of academic research and publication for MENA students and scholars who are keen to disseminate their latest research on this area.

The aim of the series is to publish both specialist and more general titles pertaining to the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa region – broadly defined as including countries from Morocco to Iran. It is overseen by an international Editorial Board whose members possess Editorial Board of The Routledge Political Economy a broad range of expertise and areas of specialism. of the Middle East and North Africa

Submissions from prospective authors are welcomed, Professor David Cobham, Heriot Watt University and should be sent in the first instance to the series editor Professor Nu’man Kanafani, University of Copenhagen ([email protected]). The series is open to single- Professor Massoud Karshenas, SOAS authored books as well as edited volumes and textbooks. Professor Jeffrey B. Nugent, University of Southern All manuscripts are subject to international standards of California peer review. Professor Jennifer Olmsted, Drew University, New Jersey Professor Karen Pfeifer, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts Professor Wassim Shahin, Lebanese American University (LAU) Professor Sübidey Togan, Centre for International Economics at Bilkent University Professor Jackline Wahba, University of Southampton

Recent Titles: State–Business Alliances and Economic Development: Turkey, Mexico and North Africa

Işık Özel

This book argues that a key dynamic behind economic in a comparative historical analysis, the book shows how development in the emerging markets is the coordination state-business alliances have been formed, collapsed between the state and businesses. It draws on the and re-formed between the respective states and shifting meandering developmental trajectories of Turkey and business actors since the launching of market transitions. Mexico from the 1970s to the present and goes on to draw It demonstrates how both the state and business actors, some lessons for institution-building and market reforms and their cohesiveness versus their fragmentation, in selected countries in North Africa. Based on extensive play crucial roles in the making and sustainability of the original research in Turkey and Mexico that is embedded institutions which are central to state-business alliances.

For the full list of titles in the series please visit www.routledge.com/books/series/routledge_ political_economy_of_the_middle_east_and_ north_africa_SE0387/

For a full list of LMEI publications contact the Executive Officer at [email protected] Visiting Scholars LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 23

London Middle East Institute

Amel Chetibi, Zhiqiang Zou, Visiting Researcher Visiting Scholar

Before joining the LMEI as a Visiting Researcher for Zhiqiang Zou is currently an assistant professor of the her PhD thesis in December 2014, Amel Chetibi was Middle East Studies Institute, Shanghai International Assistant Professor at University Constantine 2 in Algeria. Studies University (SISU), China. His research interests Her research focused on international economics and cover global economic governance and the Middle East in particular the economies of the MENA region with economy and he was awarded his PhD in International an emphasis on North Africa. Since completing a Relations in 2013. Dr Zou is the author of A Research comparative study of the global financial crisis of 2008 on Saudi Arabia’s Participation in Global Economic and the Great Depression of 1929 for her Magister Governance (World Affairs Press, Beijing, 2015) and his dissertation at University Constantine 2, she has been articles have been published in a number of academic working on the political economy of privatisation in Algeria journals. Dr Zou is currently working on a research as part of her MSc at SOAS. Chetibi’s current research project funded by China’s Ministry of Education entitled looks at the problems associated with industrialisation A Study on the Role of Saudi Arabia and Turkey in Global and specialisation in Algeria’s rentier economy. Economic Governance. The project focuses on the roles played by Saudi Arabia and Turkey as G20 members in Global Economic Governance. Zhiqiang Zou joined the LMEI in May 2015.

Hungtae Yoo, Visiting Scholar

Hungtae Yoo joined the LMEI as a Visiting Scholar in February 2015, prior to which he was a member of the planning committee and facilitator of the Provincial Government of Gyeongsangbuk-Do’s Korea Silk Road Project. His work on the project led him to develop a keen interest in the Silk Road and his current research explores the historical relations between Iran and South Korea dating back to the time of the ancient Silk Road. Dr Yoo’s interests also include the religions and history of ancient Persia and contemporary Iranian politics. For his Masters he conducted A Study on Relations between Zoroastrianism and Iranian Islamic Revolution: focusing on Zoroastrian Dualistic Conflict at HUFS (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) in South Korea and he carried out A Comparative Study on the Role of Government and Civil Society in the Socio-economic Development of South Korea and Iran (1961-1979) for his Doctoral dissertation at the University of Isfahan in Iran. 24 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Centre for Iranian Studies

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Stefania Petralla, Iran Leverhulme Visiting Heritage Foundation (IHF) Professor Visiting Fellow

The Centre for Iranian Studies was delighted to join the Stefania Petralla was the IHF Visiting Fellow from July to Department of Near and Middle Eastern Languages December 2014. Petralla’s research looked at the role and Cultures at SOAS in co-hosting Professor Ahmad of traditional practices and structures for the definition Karimi-Hakkak as Leverhulme Visiting Professor for of Persian building identity. She undertook historical the 2014/15 academic year. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak is investigation on the management of local resources for Professor of Persian Language, Literature, and Cultures the maturation of a proper architectural language and at the University of Maryland and Founding Director of more specifically, and the subject of her PhD thesis, on the University’s Roshan Center for Persian Studies. He the widespread but not so well-known Persian ribbed has studied in Iran and the United States, receiving his vaults which have fascinated scholars worldwide. Unlike PhD in comparative literature from Rutgers University in previous research carried out on the subject, Dr Petralla’s 1979. Karimi-Hakkak is the author, editor or translator of research addressed the origins of this style of architecture over 20 books and around 150 research articles. Apart from a technical rather than spiritual perspective. She has from delivering several lectures in which he explored the been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Philadelphia evolution of Persian poetry from the classical to modernist and has spent research periods in Iran. Her work has tradition and more recent works, Karmi-Hakkak spent been published in various articles and her final PhD thesis his time in London working on completing his research is under revision for publication. project on the exilic mode in Persian literature, and on providing consultation in the process of the expansion and updating of the Department’s course offerings and areas of research development.

Hamid Pouran, Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) Visiting Fellow in Pamela Karimi, Iran Heritage Iran’s Environmental Foundation (IHF) Visiting Sustainability Fellow

Hamid Pouran was the first IHF Visiting Fellow in Iran’s Pamela Karimi was the IHF Visiting Fellow from January Environmental Sustainability from October 2014 to to June 2015. Dr Karimi is Assistant Professor of Art April 2015. Dr Pouran’s research background is in History at the College of Visual and Performing Arts, environmental pollution, in particular biogeochemistry. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and is the Prior to joining SOAS as a visiting fellow, he was Senior author of Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Research Associate at Lancaster University and was also Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era (Routledge, part of Transatlantic Initiative for Nanotechnology and 2013). Evaluating a wide range of objects and archival the Environment (TINE), an international consortium of documents, the book highlights the significance of private UK and US universities. During his fellowship Pouran life in the social, economic and political contexts of concentrated on disseminating information about the modern Iran. The methodological inquiries that informed current environmental challenges facing Iran. In addition, the arguments of this monograph are now evolving into he was the guest editor of The Middle East in London a critical analysis of architecture within the larger context magazine’s special issue (Vol. 11, No. 2, February/March of (material) culture in Tehran. Taking up diverse topics 2015) which focused on environmental sustainability in Karimi calls attention to the agency of ordinary citizens as the Middle East and North Africa and he also organised they transform their built environments via commonplace the first series of the Centre’s new International Seminar mediators, simultaneously exploring potential acts of Series on Iran’s Environmental Sustainability at SOAS. that agency as performed by architectural elements themselves. The aim for her IHF research term was to extend her intellectual interests along these lines. LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 25 Summer School

The LMEI held its third Middle East Summer School in 2015 with a course on ‘Culture and Society in the Middle East’ alongside Beginners Arabic language courses (at introductory or intermediate levels) and a course on ‘Government and Politics of the Middle East’.

This year’s Summer School consolidated the success of its first two years with 15 students from both within the UK and overseas taking part in the programme.

Comments from students included:

‘I enjoyed the very high-quality intellectual input and the warm, friendly atmosphere.’

‘It has been a wonderful, very rich time of learning.’

‘I was able to feel at home here in this part of LMEI... We were all like a BIG family.’

‘I most enjoyed the teachers and the amount of work and care they put into the classes.’ 26 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

PHD Theses on the Middle East LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 27

PHD Theses on the Middle East Completed at SOAS in 2014-2015

NAME THESIS RESEARCH AREA

Afaf Almala Gender and Guardianship in Jordan: Gender Studies Femininity, Compliance, and Resistance

Sulaiman Al-Turki Codification of Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia Law

Samer Mazen Kamel Dajani Ibn `Arabi’s Conception of Ijtihad: Near and Its Origins and Later Reception Middle East

Hoa Thanh Duong Asset Pricing Models in Financial Crises, Family Financial and Ownership and Privatisation: Evidence from Turkey Management Studies

Karim-Philipp Eid-Sabbagh A Political Economy of Water in Development Lebanon: Water Resource Management, Studies Infrastructure Production, and the International Development Complex

Oroub Anwar Bader El-Abed In the Cracks of the Big City: Development What Economic Opportunities for Palestinian- Studies Origin Jordanians of East Amman since 1989?

Sarah Doebbert Epstein From a ‘Philosophy of the Limit’ to a ‘Poetics of Cultural Literary the Horizon’: A Comparative Critical Approach to and Postcolonial Language, Subjectivity and Alterity in Postculturalist Studies Thought and Arabic Critical Discourse

Toufic Haddad Political Economy of Neoliberal Development Approaches to Conflict Resolution and Statebuilding Studies in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 1993-2013

Leyli Irani Behbahani Iranian Feminisms: Transnational Connectivities Gender Studies between Homes and Diasporas

Halil Ibrahim Iskender The Phonology of Arabic Loanwords in Turkish: Linguistics The Case of T-Palatalisation

Majid Kazemi Najaf Abadi Oil, Manufacturing Efficiency Economics and Economic Growth in Iran: a Microeconometric Approach

Yusra Khreegi Women in the Writings of Muhammad ‘Abduh Near and Middle East

Sibel Kocaer The Journey of an Ottoman Warrior Dervish: The Near and Hizirname (Book of Khidr) Sources and Reception Middle East

Bita Mafizadeh ‘Contemporary Iranian Theatre in Translation - MPhil/PhD Near An Analysis of the Issues at Stake in and Middle East the Translation of Foreign Plays from Conception to Performance 28 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

NAME THESIS RESEARCH AREA

Marina Marks The Ottoman Greek Press (1830-1862) PhD Direct History

Cristina Moreno Almeida Critical Reflections on Rap Music in Contemporary Cultural Literary and Morocco: Urban Youth Culture Between and Beyond Postcolonial Studies State’s Co-optation and Dissent

Jamil Mouawad The Negotiated State: State-Society Politics Relations in Lebanon

Sharri Plonski Ordinary & Extraordinary Resistances: Development The Struggle for Land and Space by Studies the Palestinian Citizens of Israel

Ehud Rosen Modern Conceptualisations of Bid’a: Wahhabis, Near and Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood Middle East

Karin Seyfert Between Donor Preferences Politics and Country Context - An Analysis of the Lebanese NGO Sector

Khaled Mohamed The Political Agency of Egypt’s Upper Politics Safeieldin Shaalan Middle Class: Neoliberalism, Social Status Reproduction and the State

Yiming Shen Chinese Islamic Text Studies in the Seventeenth China and Inner and Eighteenth Centuries: A Case Study of Asia Language Chinese Translations of Jami’s Persian Sufi Prose

James Harris Sunday In the Shadow of the Pyramids - Power, Politics Politics and Participation in Contemporary Egypt

Nargess Tavassolian The Quest for Freedom of Thought and Expression Law in Post-1979 Iran: A Comparative Study of Iranian, Islamic and International Human Rights Law

Tanja Tolar Islamic Enamelled Glass and Art and Archaeology its Connections with Byzantium

Pheroze Unwalla Re-Imagining Gallipoli: Imperial Pasts History and Foreign Presence in a History of Turkish National Remembrance, 1923-2013

Nikolaos Vryzidis A Study on Ottoman Christian Aesthetic: Art and Archaeology Greek-Orthodox Vestments & Ecclesiastical Fabrics, 16th to 18th Centuries

Veli Yadirgi The Political Economy of the Kurdish Development Question in Turkey: De-Development Studies in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 29

Acknowledgements

In 2014/15, as in previous years, LMEI entertained ambitious plans for a wide variety of events, academic and cultural. It would have been impossible for the Institute’s small staff to have succeeded in staging all of these without the assistance of many helpers. Thanks must go to all the SOAS staff who have supported the LMEI over the year: the Conference Office, the Caterers, the AV and IT departments, SOAS photographer Glenn Ratcliffe, the Print Room, Post Room and Estates Department. Particular thanks are due to Jane Wood for her assistance with the Institute’s finances.

Internships

Çağrı Koşak

Maria Peiro Mir

Amie Simi Lu 30 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Financial Statement LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 31

Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) for the year ended 31 July 2014 Unrestricted Restricted Total Total Funds Funds Funds Funds 2014 2013 Incoming Resources £ £ £ £

Incoming Resources from Generated Funds Donations, sponsorship and similar income 206,313 30,000 236,313 236,270 Interest receivable 32 - 32 35

Incoming Resources from Charitable Activities Training programmes and professional services 34,832 - 34,832 71,103 Conferences, events and publications 51,774 - 51,774 109,723 Affi liations 8,025 - 8,025 23,620

Other Incoming Resources Advertising 2,250 2,250 1,403

Total Incoming Resources 303,226 30,000 333,226 442,154

Resources Expended

Costs of Charitable Activities Training programmes and professional services 45,623 3,170 48,793 68,507 Conferences, events and publications 183,374 14,821 198,195 238,842 Research 2,148 16,634 18,782 15,163 Affi liations 12,423 1,585 14,008 11,854

Governance Costs 29,865 794 30,659 31,037

Total Resources Expended 273,433 37,004 310,437 365,403

Net incoming / (outgoing) resources 29,793 (7,004) 22,789 76,751

Total Funds Brought Forward 99,956 39,434 139,390 62,639

Total Funds Carried Forward at 31 July 129,749 32,430 162,179 139,390

The Statement of Financial Activity includes all gains and losses recognised in the year.

All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.

Balance Sheet as at 31 July 2014 Unrestricted Restricted Total Total Funds Funds Funds Funds 2014 2013 £ £ £ £

Current Assets Debtors 17,451 - 17,451 19,643 Short term deposits 10,847 - 10,847 10,834 Cash at bank and in hand 135,646 32,430 168,076 183,408

163,944 32,430 196,374 213,885

Creditors: Amounts Falling Due within One Year 34,195 - 34,195 74,495

Net Current Assets 129,749 32,430 162,179 139,390

Unrestricted Funds 129,749 - 129,749 99,956 Restricted Funds - 32,430 32,430 39,434

Total Funds 129,749 32,430 162,179 139,390

These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions available to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 and with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008).

Approved by the Board of Trustees and signed on its behalf by:

Professor Paul Webley 25 February 2015 Chairman 32 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Directory of Academic Members LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 33

Department of Anthropology and Professor Bassam Fattouh, Professor in Finance and Management for the Middle East Sociology Mr Adel Hamaizia, Senior Teaching Fellow

Dr Lori Allen, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Dr Mark Neal, Senior Lecturer in International Business & Management (MENA) Professor Trevor Marchand, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology

Dr Caroline Osella, Reader in Anthropology with Centre for Gender Studies reference to South Asia Professor Nadje Al-Ali, Professor of Gender Studies Professor Richard Tapper, Emeritus Professor

Dr Ruba Salih, Reader in Gender Studies Dr Gabriele vom Bruck, Senior Lecturer in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East Department of History Brunei Gallery Dr Teresa Bernheimer, Senior Lecturer in the History of Mr John Hollingworth, MBE, Exhibitions/Galleries Manager the Near and Middle East

Dr Michael Brett, Emeritus Reader Department of Development Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Professor of Studies the Economic History of Asia and Africa Professor Ben Fortna, Professor in the History of the Professor Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Middle East Development Studies and International Relations Dr Nelida Fuccaro, Reader in the Modern History of the Dr Adam Hanieh, Senior Lecturer in Development Middle East Studies Professor G R Hawting, Emeritus Professor Professor Deniz Kandiyoti, Emerita Professor in Development Studies Professor Konrad Hirschler, Professor of Middle Eastern History Dr Thomas Marois, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies Dr George Lane, Senior Teaching Fellow in the History of the Middle East and Central Asia

Department of Economics Dr Derek Mancini-Lander, Lecturer in the History of Iran

Dr Amrita Shodhan, Senior Teaching Fellow Dr Randa Alami, Senior Teaching Fellow Dr Stefano Taglia, Research Associate Dr Hannah Bargawi, Lecturer in Economics

Dr Hassan Hakimian, MBI Al Jaber Reader in Economics with reference to the Middle East Department of the History of Art

Professor Jane Harrigan, Professor of Economics and Archaeology

Professor Masood Karshenas, Professor of Economics Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Emerita Professor Dr Graham Smith, Reader in Economics Professor Anna Contadini, Professor of the History of Islamic Art Department of Financial and Dr Heather Elgood, MBE, Course Director of the Diploma Management Studies (DeFiMS) in Asian Art Dr Simon O’Meara, Lecturer in the History of Architecture Dr Ibrahim Abosag, Senior Lecturer in Marketing & Archaeology of the Islamic Middle East

Professor Tony Allan, Professorial Research Associate Professor Scott Redford, Nasser D Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology Dr Senija Causevic, Lecturer in Marketing 34 LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015

Centre for International Studies Professor Wen-chin Ouyang, Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature and Diplomacy (CISD) Mr Mohamed I Said, Principal Lector in Arabic

Dr Dan Plesch, Director of CISD and Reader Mr Muaadh Salih, Principal Teaching Fellow and Arabic Project Co-ordinator SOAS Language Centre Dr Mustafa Shah, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies Dr Ayman Shihadeh, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies Saliha Fellache (Arabic Language) Professor Colin Shindler, Pears Senior Research Fellow in Israel Studies

Department of the Languages Ms Savitri Sperl, Teaching Fellow in Arabic and Cultures of the Near and Professor Stefan Sperl, Professor of Arabic and Middle Middle East Eastern Studies Mr Frans van Koppen, Teaching Fellow in Ancient Near Eastern Studies Professor Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem, OBE, King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies Dr Yair Wallach, Pears Lecturer in Israeli Studies

Ms Ayse Berna Akca, Teaching Fellow in Turkish Dr Mark Weeden, Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern Studies Mr Ahmad Alkhashem, Senior Lector in Arabic Dr Katherine Zebiri, Senior Lecturer in Arabic Dr Keya Anjaria, Senior Teaching Fellow in Turkish Dr Helen Blatherwick, Teaching Fellow in Arabic School of Law Ms Maha Collinson, Senior Lector in Arabic

Dr Yorgos Dedes, Senior Lecturer in Turkish Professor Mashood Baderin, Professor of Law

Dr Tamar Drukker, Senior Lector in Hebrew Mr Ian D Edge, Lecturer in Law

Ms Sorour Dundon, Teaching Fellow in Persian Dr Jonathan Ercanbrack, Lecturer in the Law of Islamic Finance Dr Ayman El-Desouky, Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Literature Mr Nicholas H D Foster, Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law Dr Nada Elzeer, Senior Lector in Arabic Dr Vanja Hamzic, Lecturer in Law Ms Narguess Farzad, Senior Fellow in Persian Dr Doreen Hinchcliffe, Senior Teaching Fellow Professor Andrew R George, Professor of Babylonian Dr Scott Newton, Lecturer in Laws of Central Asia Ms Mona Hammad, Senior Lector in Arabic Professor Martin W Lau, Professor of South Asian Law Dr Marlé Hammond, Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture Dr Makeen F Makeen, Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law

Professor B George Hewitt, Professor of Caucasian Professor Lynn Welchman, Professor of Law with Languages particular reference to the Middle East and North Africa

Nisrine Jaafar, Senior Lector in Arabic

Professor Hugh N Kennedy, Professor of Arabic

Dr Karima Laachir, Senior Lecturer in Literary & Cultural Studies

Mr Gamon McLellan, Teaching Fellow in Turkish

Dr Nima Mina, Senior Lecturer in Persian and Iranian Studies

Ms Shabnam Mirafzali, Teaching Fellow in Persian LMEI ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015 35

Library and Information Services Dr Bhavna Davé, Senior Lecturer in Politics of Central Asia (LIS) Dr Michael Farquhar, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Professor Stephen Hopgood, Professor of Ms Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb, Subject Librarian International Relations (Middle East & Central Asia) Professor Salwa Ismail, Professor of Politics with Mr Burzine K Waghmar, Senior Library Assistant reference to the Middle East (Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services) Dr Mark Laffey, Senior Lecturer in International Politics Department of Linguistics Dr Matthew J Nelson, Reader in Politics Professor Charles Tripp, Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East Professor Peter Austin, Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, Senior Lecturer in International Relations Professor Bruce Ingham, Emeritus Professor of Arabic Dialect Studies Dr Hedi Viterbo, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Dr Christopher Lucas, Lecturer in Arabic Linguistics Dr Rafeef Ziadah, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Centre for Media Studies Department of the Study of Religions

Dr Massimiliano Fusari, Senior Teaching Fellow Dr Jan-Peter Hartung, Reader in the Study of Islam Dr Dina Matar, Senior Lecturer in Arab Media and Political Communication Professor Catherine Hezser, Professor of Jewish Studies

Dr Nick Denes, Senior Teaching Fellow Professor Almut Hintze, Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism Professor Annabelle Sreberny, Emerita Professor of Global Media and Communications Dr Erica Hunter, Senior Lecturer in Eastern Christianity

Dr Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad, Senior Teaching Fellow Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams, Research Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies

Dr Sarah Stewart, Lecturer in Zoroastrianism Department of Music Dr Cosimo Zene, Reader in the Study of Religions

Dr Ilana Webster-Kogen, Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music

Professor Owen Wright, Emeritus Professor of Musicology of the Middle East

Department of Politics and International Studies

Dr Reem Abou-El-Fadl, Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East

Dr Fiona Adamson, Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor of Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies CENTRE FOR IRANIAN STUDIES – SCHOLARSHIPS

SOAS, University of London, is pleased to announce the availability of several scholarships in its Centre for Iranian Studies (CIS). The Centre, established in 2010, draws upon the range of academic research and teaching across the disciplines of SOAS, including Languages and Literature, the Study of Religions, History, Economics, Politics, International Relations, Music, Art and Media and Film Studies. It aims to

build close relations with likeminded p 25 . of the School Oriental and African Studies, London, 2007, Treasures institutions and to showcase and foster the best of contemporary Iranian talent in art and culture. MA in Iranian Studies

*OCISNFNCFSTTVDDFTTGVMMZ launcIFEBOinterdisciplinary MA in Image: Anvār-i Suhaylī (Lights of the Canopus) Manuscript (Ref: MS10102) from: Anna Contadini (ed.) Objectsof Instruction: Image: Anvār-i Iranian Studies, UIFGJSTUPGJUTLJOE which will be off ered BHBJOJO2015/16. Thanks to the generosity of the Fereydoun Djam Charitable Trust, a number of Kamran Djam scholarships are available for BA, MA and MPhil/PhD studies. MA in Iranian Studies For further details, please contact: Dr Nima Mina (Department of the Languages and Culture of the Middle East) Scholarships Offi cer E: [email protected] E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)20 7898 4315 T: +44 (0)20 7074 5091/ 5094 W: www.soas.ac.uk/nme/programmes/ W: www.soas.ac.uk/scholarships ma-in-iranian-studies Centre for Iranian Studies Student Recruitment Dr Arshin Adib-Moghaddam (Chair) T: +44(0)20 7898 4034 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)20 7898 4747 W: www.soas.ac.uk/lmei-cis

For details of the Institute’s activities, including lecture programmes, conferences and publications, and information on how to become an affiliate of the LMEI please contact: London Middle East Institute, SOAS, University of London, MBI Al Jaber Building, 21 Russell Square, London WC1B 5EA Tel: 020 7898 4330 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/