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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
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(Please click on photographs for more information about any individual.)
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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
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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Dr Douglas Sturkey
Visiting Fellow
Research interests include Middle East politics, the Arab-Israeli
dispute, Gulf security.
email address: Douglas.Sturkey@anu.edu.au |
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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
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GENERAL STAFF
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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 |
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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. |
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