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CENTRE FOR ARAB & ISLAMIC STUDIES (THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA)

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Staff

Centre staff & associates

Centre staff and associates bring together a wide range of expertise covering Islam, politics, history, political economy, international relations and three main languages (Arabic, Persian and Turkish) in relation to the Arab world, Iran, Turkey and Central Asia.

Three of the Centre's academic positions - a senior lectureship and two lectureships - are supported from ANU's joint endowments with the Al-Maktoum Foundation (UAE), and the Iranian and Turkish governments. Under the agreements signed for these endowments, the standard University academic and selection processes apply to these positions as they do to all other ANU appointments.

The Centre's activities are guided by an Advisory Board drawn from academia, government, business and industry. The Centre also calls on the expertise of a panel of International Advisers. Advisory Board

 

(Please click on photographs for more information about any individual.)

 

Director of Centre:

Professor Amin Saikal AM
Research interests include the politics, history, political economy and international relations of the Middle East and Central Asia.
Email address: amin.saikal@anu.edu.au

 

Deputy Director of Centre:

Professor James Piscatori

Research interests include political Islam and the politics, history and international relations of the Middle East.

Email address: James.Piscatori@anu.edu.au

 

Dr Matthew Gray
Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Senior Lecturer

Research interests include the politics, political economy and international relations of the Middle East.
email address: M.Gray@anu.edu.au

 

Dr Kirill Nourzhanov
Senior Lecturer

Research interests include politics, international relations and conflict resolution in contemporary Central Asia.
email address: kirill.nour@anu.edu.au
   
Dr M Mehdi Ilhan
Lecturer, Turkish language & culture

Research interests include Ottoman language, modern Turkish language, Ottoman and Turkish history and culture, and the history of Islam.
email address: mehdi.ilhan@anu.edu.au

Dr Hossein Heirani-Moghaddam

Lecturer in Persian Language and Iranian Studies

Research interests include Iran’s contemporary foreign policy as well as the study of political and religious discourses in Iran’s modern history.

email address: Hossein.Moghaddam@anu.edu.au

 

Dr Ali Yunis Aldahesh

Lecturer in Arabic Language and Literature

Research interests include translation theory, contrastive linguistics, lexiocography and pedagogy.

email address: Ali.Aldahesh@anu.edu.au

Professor Robert Bowker

Adjunct Professor
Research interests include Middle East politics, Persian Gulf security and conflict resolution in the Arab-Israeli context.

email address: Bob.Bowker@anu.edu.au

Dr Douglas Sturkey
Visiting Fellow

Research interests include Middle East politics, the Arab-Israeli dispute, Gulf security.
email address: Douglas.Sturkey@anu.edu.au

Professor Stuart Harris
Visiting Fellow

Research interests include international relations of China and countries of Northeast Asia, Asia-Pacific regional cooperation and Australia's foreign policy.
email address: stuart.harris@anu.edu.au

 

GENERAL STAFF

 

Kerry Pert

Centre Administrator
Kerry joined CAIS in 2007, having worked for eight years as the Student Affairs Officer at QUT, Brisbane. Prior to that Kerry worked in the Student Support Service at UQ. Kerry conducts the Centre's administration and provides executive support to the Director.
email address: Kerry.Pert@anu.edu.au

Leila Kouatly

Postgraduate Student Administrator

Leila has a Bachelor in Information Management from the University of Canberra. She joined CAIS in 2004. Leila is the Graduate Studies Administrator and co-ordinates the postgraduate programs.
email address: Leila.Kouatly@anu.edu.au

 

Anita Mack

Research Assistant/Publications Officer -

The RA/PO manages the Centre's publications, runs the library, organizes library material for the Centre's courses, assists with library information for students and also provides administrative support.

email address: Anita.Mack@anu.edu.au

 

CENTRE ASSOCIATES

Ms Jane Drake-Brockman
Director, Trade and Environment Solutions. Ms Drake-Brockman is an international trade policy expert, with extensive trade negotiating experience, having held senior trade advisory positions in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including Deputy Head of the Australian Mission to the European Union in Brussels. Jane Drake-Brockman has an honours degree in economics from the Australian National University and 30 years of economic and trade policy experience in government, international government (UNCTAD, Commonwealth Secretariat, OECD) , business, academia and the parliament. She has provided expert advice over the last decade to a range of international clients on trade and environment policy issues, on which she has a well established academic publications record.
Professor Barry Hooker is Adjunct Professor in Law at ANU. He was formerly Professor of Comparative Law, University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of a number of books including Legal Pluralism (1975), A Concise Legal History of South-East Asia (1978), Islamic Law in South-East Asia (1984) and Editor of Laws of South-East Asia (2 vols, 1986-1988).
Mr Geoffrey Jukes was formerly Senior Fellow in International Relations at the Australian National University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. His books include The Soviet Union in Asia (1972); Hitler's Stalingrad Decisions (1985); and (co-editor) The Middle East: Prospects for Settlement and Stability?, Canberra; Peace Research Centre, ANU, 1995.
Professor William Maley is Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, The Australian National University. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Russian Diplomatic Academy, and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde. He is the author of The Afghanistan Wars (2002), and co-author of The Theory of Politics: an Australian Perspective (1990); Regime Change in Afghanistan: Foreign Intervention and the Politics of Legitimacy (1991) and Political Order in Post-Communist Afghanistan (1992). His co-edited books include Russia in Search of its Future ( 1995); The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989); The Transition from Socialism: State and Civil Society in the USSR (1991) and Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban (1998). In mid-2003, Professor Maley took up a position as inaugural Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at ANU.
Dr Alex Maroya is Assistant Director (Policy) at Universities Australia, where he is responsible for policy development and advocacy on a range of higher education funding and regulatory issues. He was previously Government and Economic Coordinator at the Australian Council for International Development and has worked in a number of policy roles for the Australian Government. Alex’s primary research interests are decolonization in the Middle East and North Africa and post-conflict statebuilding. He has worked extensively with the Sudanese community in Australia and is Chair of the Advisory Board of the Darfur Australia Network.
Dr Kevin Windle is Head of the School of Language Studies, The Australian National University. He holds a PhD in Slavonic Studies from McGill University, and has also taught at the University of Queensland. He has published articles in the area of Russian and Polish literature, and the theory of literary translation, including translation from Arabic into Slavonic languages. He has also published translations of numerous works of literature from Slavonic languages into English.