HBKU - Key Persons
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer / College of Law
Aisha Al-Naama is a Lecturer at the College of Law at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). She currently teaches Research Methods in Law at the College of Law.
She earned her Juris Doctor from HBKU and was a member of the first graduating class. Aisha also holds a B.F.A. in Graphic Design from Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar. She worked in design and communications at Qatar Foundation where she served as a Communications Design Specialist for the Center of Design Innovation, then served as a Senior Branding Specialist at HBKU until she pursued her post graduate studies in law and embarked on a new a career in academia.
With a background in communications, design, and law her teaching and research interests cover different aspects of innovation, with a special focus on intellectual property law, industrial policy and development.
Research Interests
Intellectual Property Law
Business Law and Innovation
Competition Law
Labor Law
Legal Education
Experience
Lecturer
Al-Adwan, Amer, Al-Adwan, Ahmad and Smedly, Joy. (2013). Exploring Students' Acceptance of E-learning Using Technology Acceptance Model in Jordanian Universities.
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- Founding Dean
- Founding Dean / College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- the Writer
Dr. Amal Mohammed Al-Malki is the Founding Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation. Before that, she was the Executive Director of the Translation and Interpreting Institute, which she founded in 2011. She also was an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar where she taught courses in writing composition, postcolonial literature, theories of translation, and Islamic feminism. Dr. Al-Malki holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of London-SOAS, where she also earned a master's degree in English-Arabic Applied Linguistics and Translation.
Dr. Al-Malki's research interests include the negotiation of identity between East and West, media representations of Arab women, and postcolonial literature. She has published numerous articles in academic journals in the United States and the UK. Her book, Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media (2012) is published by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation and Bloomsbury Academic, UK. It was lauded as the first comprehensive study of the topic in the world. She also edited The Writer's Craft: Teaching Creative Writing in Qatar, published as a part of an initiative honoring Doha as the Arab Capital of Culture in 2010.
Dr. Al-Malki is a sought-after public speaker and social commentator. She has been invited to speak at conferences and forums throughout the Middle East, United States, and the UK. Dr. Al-Malki was recognized as a QF Achiever in Qatar Foundation's global campaign in 2011 and was featured in regional and international news and TV outlets, for example, CNN. She was the first Arab and Muslim to be invited as a Keynote Speaker at City University in New York after 9/11. She was also the first Qatari to be invited to address the Cheltenham Literature Festival. She has lectured at Durham University, SOAS, and Maryland University among others. In 2018, Dr. Al-Malki was selected by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris as "Personnalite d'Avenir Genre" (Future Personality for Gender Equality). Focusing on women's rights and Arab identity, Dr. Al-Malki strives to help deepen international understanding of Qatar and its evolving place in the world.
Research Interests
The negotiation of identity between East and West
Media representations of Arab women
Postcolonial literature
Gender politics
Arab women's rights
Change of cultural dynamics in the Gulf
Experience
Founding Dean
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- Associate Dean for Research, UNESCO Chairholder on Environmental Law and Sustainable Development
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- Islamic Finance
- Professor of Islamic Finance
Dr. Abdulazeem holds a PhD and a master's degree in Islamic Financial Law; three BAs in Islamic Law, Arabic Language and English Literature; and two higher studies diplomas in Islamic Law and Human Sciences. He has worked at universities as well as Islamic banks. He is currently a Professor of Islamic Finance at HBKU.
Research Interests
Islamic Law
Islamic Finance
Islamic Banking
Islamic Studies
Arabic Language Studies
Experience
Professor of Islamic Law & Finance
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Islam and Global Affairs
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- Member of the Board
- President
- President and Ex - Officio Member
Dr. Ahmad M. Hasnah is the President of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development (QF) in Doha, Qatar.
Since he joined QF in 2002, Dr. Hasnah has been a key player in the development of Education City- a unique hub for knowledge and education through partnerships with world-class educational and research institutions.
In his roles as the Director of Academic Affairs and later, as the Associate Vice President for Higher Education, Dr. Hasnah was actively involved in the negotiations which led to many of the QF partner universities establishing Qatar campuses, including Texas A&M University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Georgetown University.
Following his appointment as the Executive Vice President and Provost of HBKU in May 2014, he has been instrumental in the establishment of six colleges namely, the College of Islamic Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the College of Science and Engineering, College of Law, College of Health and Life Sciences, and the College of Public Policy, which offer interdisciplinary graduate and PhD programs.
Dr. Hasnah has contributed to the Research and Development Enterprise of QF and served as a member of the Qatar National Research Fund Steering Committee and the QF Strategic Research Board. Moreover, he is currently overseeing three research institutes under HBKU that focus on Qatar's grand challenges in the areas of energy and environment, biomedicine, and computing challenges.
He has also taken part in the conception and shaping of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), a unique global event which aims to create an international multidisciplinary platform to shape education models, explore ground-breaking innovations, and take concrete steps in making significant improvements to worldwide education in the 21st century.
He is on many joint advisory boards, including Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar and Northwestern University in Qatar. He was a member of the Joint Advisory Boards of Texas A&M University at Qatar, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar and Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar for the past 10 years and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Community College of Qatar for the past six years.
Dr. Hasnah has been a panelist at many international conferences such as the NAFSA Conference in the US, Going Global Forum, SCUP North Atlantic Regional Conference, and Reinventing Higher Education Conference at IE University in Madrid.
He holds a Master's degree (1993) and PhD (1996) in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology, USA. He graduated from Qatar University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics.
Dr. Ahmad M. Hasnah is the President of HBKU and has been, since 2002, a key player in the development of Education City into a unique hub for knowledge and education.
Job Titles:
- Islamic Finance and Economy and Program Coordinator of PhD and MS Programs in Islamic Financ
- Professor
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- Director of Muhammad Bin Hamad Al Thani Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization ( CMCC )
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- Professor of Islamic Architecture and Urbanism
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- Researcher and Academic Coordinator, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies ( IHEID ), Geneva
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- Associate Professor at CIS
- Associate Professor of Islamic Studies
Dr. Alexandre Caeiro is Associate Professor at CIS. He was trained in sociology and in Islamic studies in France, the Netherlands, and Egypt. His research deals broadly with the transformations of Islamic law in modern contexts. He is currently working on the legal history of Gulf sheikhdoms, focusing on the interaction between emirs, shari'a judges, merchants, and British agents in the context of the development of an oil economy and modern state institutions.
Research Interests
Modern History of Islamic Law
Law and Society in the Gulf
Religious Authority and Media Technology
Muslim Minorities in the West
Islamic Family Law
Experience
Associate Professor
Job Titles:
- Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Qatar 's Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning
Dr. Ali A. Abdulraouf Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Qatar's Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Audiovisual Translation
- Associate Professor in Master of Arts in Audiovisual Translation / Translation and Interpreting Institute
- Master of Arts in Audiovisual Translation
Dr. Amer Al-Adwan is currently an Assistant Professor of Audiovisual Translation in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). He received his BA in English Language and Literature from Yarmouk University, Jordan in 2003, and his MA in Applied Translation in 2005 from the University of Exeter, UK. He also obtained his doctorate in Translation and Intercultural Studies from the University of Manchester in 2009. Before joining HBKU in 2014, he worked at Jordan University and the Applied Science University, Jordan, as an assistant professor, where he taught several courses of translation and intercultural studies. He also worked for few international institutions, including BBC Arabic and Aljazeera English, as a translator and a subtitler.
Research Interests
Audiovisual translation
Subtitling
Intercultural studies
Politeness theory
Discourse analysis
Humour and media translation
Censorship
Experience
Assistant Professor in the Master program of Audiovisual Translation (full time)
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- Associate Professor of Islamic History
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- Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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- Professor of History and Culture, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
- Assistant Dean of Students
- Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean for Student Affairs / College of Law
Dr. Barry Solaiman is an Assistant Dean of Students and an Assistant Professor specializing in Healthcare Law and Constitutional Law. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge, has been called to the London Bar, and is an accredited civil and commercial mediator. He was formerly Editor-in-Chief of both the Cambridge International Law Journal and Medicine and Law.
In Qatar, he is an advisor to the Ministry of Public Health, a Member of Aspetar Hospital's Ethics Committee, and Co-Director of the Intersection of Law and Medicine Series at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar. Internationally, he is Chair of the Young Members Committee of the World Association for Medical Law.
He is the Lead Project Investigator for an HBKU grant analyzing the development of guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare research and has several publications in the field.
Research Interests
Constitutional Law
Political Corruption
Commercial Law
Tort Law
Medical Law
International Law
Experience
Co-Founder & Chair, PhD Seminar Series
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- Professor of Arabic Language and Literature
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- Lecturer, Medical Anthropology & Gender, Executive Director of the Gender Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies ( IHEID ), Geneva
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- Senior Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies ( IHEID ), Geneva
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- Professor of International Relations / Political Science, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies ( IHEID ), Geneva
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- Professor of Comparative Religion at CIS
Dr. Dheen Mohamed is a Professor of Comparative Religion at CIS. He was previously a Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies at Qatar University. He has also taught at the International Islamic University in Pakistan, where he was the Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies and Head of the Department of Comparative Religion. He is Sri Lankan-born, where he did his initial Islamic studies before enrolling at Al-Azhar University in Cairo and earning his bachelor's and master's degrees, followed by his doctorate in comparative religion.
Dr. Emad El-Din Shahin is a professor and former dean of HBKU's College of Islamic Studies (CIS), Qatar Foundation (2016-2022). Before joining CIS, he was the Hasib Sabbagh Distinguished Visiting Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies, a visiting professor of Political Science at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics.
Dr. Shahin holds a PhD (1989) from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and an MA (1983) and a BA (1980) from the American University in Cairo. He has taught in leading universities in the United States including Harvard, Notre Dame, Georgetown, George Washington, and Boston Universities.
His research and teaching interests focus on Islam and Politics, Comparative Politics, Democracy, and Political Reform in Muslim societies. Dr. Shahin has authored, co-authored, and co-edited six books and has more than 50 scholarly publications including journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. His publications include Political Ascent: Contemporary Islamic Movements in North Africa (1998), co-editorship with Nathan Brown of The Struggle over Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa (2010); and co-authorship of Islam and Democracy (2005 in Arabic). He is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics (2014) and co-editor with John L. Esposito of The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics (2013).
Previously, Shahin was Interim Provost at HBKU (July 2019-March 2021), a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (April 2014-March 15), public policy scholar at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (February-August 2014). He was the Henry R. Luce Associate Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (2009-2012). He was visiting associate professor in the department of Government at Harvard University (2006-2009), faculty affiliate with the Kennedy School of Government, and visiting scholar in the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School (2006-2007).
Dr. Shahin was nominated two years in a row for the Harvard University Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, May 2007 and May 2008; and is the recipient of the AUC Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award for the Academic Year 2001-2002.
Research Interests
Islam and Politics
Muslim Political Thought
Comparative Politics
Democracy and Political Reform in Muslim societies
Experience
Interim Provost
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Program Coordinator for MA in Contemporary Islamic Studies
- Islamic Studies and Program Coordinator for MA in Contemporary Islamic Studies
Dr. Frank Peter has studied modern history, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, and Arabic in Hamburg, Aix-en-Provence and Damascus. Before joining HBKU, he was Assistant Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Bern, where he received his Habilitation in Islamic Studies with a forthcoming monograph entitled "Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France: Secularism without ‘Religion'." He has co-edited a number of volumes including Islamic Movements of Europe: Public Religion and Islamophobia in the Modern World (2014) and Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe: Memory, Aesthetics, Art.
Research Interests
History of the Modern Middle East
Secularism
Anthropology of Islam
Political Religion
Orientalism and Islamophobia
Experience
Program Coordinator for MA in Contemporary Islamic Studies
Job Titles:
- Professor at the College of Islamic Studies
- Professor of Islamic Studies
Dr. Gavin Picken is a Professor at the College of Islamic Studies. He previously taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge, and the American University of Sharjah.
Dr. Picken's specialization and research focus is classical Islamic literature in Arabic, within the evolution of Muslim intellectual history. More specifically he focuses on Islamic mysticism, or Sufism, in both its historical context and contemporary expression, including its social movements, mystical prose, and devotional poetry.
He has authored several articles and chapters on Islamic law, Sufism, and the translation of Islamic literature. He is the author of Spiritual Purification in Islam: The Life and Works of Al-Muhasibi (London; New York: Routledge, 2011) and the editor of a four-volume compendium of selected articles titled Islamic Law (London; New York: Routledge, 2010).
Research Interests
Sufism
Islamic Law
Islamic Theology
Translation Studies
Experience
Program Coordinator of MA Program in Islamic Studies
Job Titles:
- Master of Arts in Digital Humanities and Societies
- Professor in Master of Arts in Digital Humanities and Societies
- Professor Position at the MA Program of Digital Humanities
George Mikros before assuming his Professor position at the MA Program of Digital Humanities at HBKU, he was Professor of Computational and Quantitative Linguistics at the University of Athens Greece. He is the director of the Computational Stylistics lab. He is also Adj. Professor at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. He had the position of Research Associate at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing and he was part of research groups that have developed significant language resources and NLP tools for Modern Greek. Since 1999 holds the position of Teaching Associate at the Hellenic Open University and since 2016 he is the Director of the Undergraduate Program "Spanish Language and Culture". Prof. Mikros has authored 5 monographs and more than 80 papers published in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and edited volumes. Since 2007 he has been elected as Member of the Council of the International Association of Quantitative Linguistics (IQLA). In 2018 he was elected its President. He is a keynote speaker and invited speaker in many international conferences, workshops and summer schools related to Digital Humanities and Quantitative Linguistics. His main research interests are computational stylistics, quantitative linguistics, computational linguistics, and forensic linguistics.
Research Interests
Computational Stylistics
Quantitative Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Forensic Linguistics
Experience
Core Editor of the International Journal of Digital Humanities published by Springer.
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- Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
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- Associate Professor in Museum Studies, University College London in Qatar
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- Sharjah Chair of Islamic Law and Finance, Durham University
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- Senior Social Researcher and International Initiatives Manager, Global One
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- Founding Member
- Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Department
- Professor and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Department
- Professor of Economics and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Department
Dr. Hassan Hakimian is Professor of Economics and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD) at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. During 2010-19, he was Director of the London Middle East Institute (LMEI) and Reader in the Economics Department at SOAS University of London. Prior to that, he was an Associate Dean at Cass Business School, London, where he was responsible for Executive MBA Programs and set up pioneering EMBA programs in Shanghai and Dubai.
His research focuses on MENA economies, specifically labor markets, economic sanctions, inclusive growth and the economics of Arab uprisings. He is the author of "Labour Transfer and Economic Development" (1990), co-editor of "The State and Global Change" (2000 with Ziba Moshaver), "Trade Policy and Economic Integration in MENA" (2003 with Jeff Nugent), "Iran and the Global Economy: Petro Populism, Islam and Economic Sanctions" (2014 with Parvin Alizadeh) and "Environmental Challenges in the MENAS Region" (2019 with Hamid Pouran). His latest work is the edited volume "The Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy" (2021).
Dr. Hakimian is a Founding Member and a past President of the International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA), a Research Fellow and Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Cairo. He is the Founder and Series Editor for the "Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa," which he launched in 2003.
One of the programmes he directed at SOAS at the Centre for International Education in Economics (CIEE), won the Queen's Prize for Higher and Further Education in 1996.
Research Interests
Economic Development and Growth in the MENA Region
Inclusive Growth in the MENA Region
Economics of the Arab Uprisings
Human Resources and Labour Markets in the Middle East
Economic Sanctions in the MENA Context
Experience
Director
London Middle East Institute (LMEI); Reader, Economics Department, SOAS (University of London): Leadership and oversight of LMEI, an interdisciplinary, renowned, specialist institute promoting understanding of the Middle East.
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- Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics
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- Professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Religion at the College of Islamic Studies
Biography
Dr. Ibrahim Zain is a Professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Religion at the College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Doha, Qatar). His various academic postings include Dean of the Kulliyyah (Faculty) of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences (KIRKHS) and Dean of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). He writes extensively on the history of religions and reform of Islamic education and has authored over 50 publications, including several books, in English and Arabic. Dr. Zain is a leading scholar on the study of the Covenants of the Prophet Muḥammad.
Research Interests
The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad and Relevancy to the Reconstruction of the Sīra and Inter-religious Dialogue
Al-Fitna al-Kubrā (i.e. the First Civil War) and its Implications on Muslim Historiography
Teaching and Learning Islam in Contemporary Muslim Institutions of Higher Learning
Religion and Art in Tayeb Salih Novels
Religion, Legality and the State: the Sudanese Experience
Maqāṣid al-Sharī‘a and Codification of Islamic Rulings
Experience
Professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Religion
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- Member of the Board
- Incoming Dean and Professor, School of Science and Technology, IE University in Madrid Spain
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- Professor of Religion and International Affairs, and Professor of Islamic Studies
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- Professor of Islamic Civilization and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization, Georgetown University
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- Associate Professor of Quranic Studies
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- Associate Dean for Social Engagement and Access
- Professor, Associate Dean for Social Engagement and Access / Translation and Interpreting Institute
Josélia Neves has a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures, an MA in English Studies, a PhD in Translation Studies, with a dissertation on subtitling for the deaf and the hard of hearing. She started her career as a language teacher but soon moved on to teaching in the domain of Translation Studies and Audiovisual Translation. Parallel to her teaching activities, she has worked as a freelance translator as a means to keep abreast of the developments and requirements of the field.
She has led a number of research projects with partners in the media, museums and cultural venues, the performing arts and education. Her special interest lies in developing action research projects that contribute towards making communication environments accessible to all. While living and working in Qatar, she continues to collaborate with European Universities both as a visiting professor and a researcher. She is a member of the TransMedia Research Group and a board member of the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation.
Research Interests
Translation studies
Tanslator training
Audiovisual translation
Multisensory communication
Language learning access and inclusion
Experience
Coordinating Professor
School of Education and Social Sciences, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
Job Titles:
- Master of Arts in Translation Studies
Biography
Julie Boéri holds a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies from the University of Manchester (UK). Before joining Hamad Bin Khalifa University, she was a lecturer in Interpreting at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain) and in Communication Studies at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France). Her work focuses on social change and ascendant innovation in digital and non-digital environments with a particular interest in narrative convergence and divergence among actors and communities. Her ethnographic studies of interactions, practices and artefacts in social organizations and media spaces seek to account for the dynamics of dominance and resistance at play in cross-cultural and cross-linguistic communication encounters. She has extensively published in English, Spanish and French in Routledge and in academic journals such as The Translator, Questions de communication, Revue Française des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication. In her capacity as Chair of the international conferences committee of IATIS (International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies), she is in charge of developing translation solutions for IATIS international and itinerant academic conferences.
Research Interests
communication policymaking
social transformation
ascendant innovation
narrative analysis
online communities
technological mediation
interpreter mediation
Experience
Lecturer in translation and interpreting
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- Associate Fellow, Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, University of Edinburgh
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- Professor of Political Science and Islamic Thought
Dr. Louay Safi is Professor of Political Science and Islamic Thought at CIS and Senior Fellow with the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) and Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU).
Dr. Safi has been active in defending human rights and promoting democracy for over two decades. He is a founding member of the Syrian National Council (SNC) and the Syrian National Coalition (2011-2014). He is also co-founder and first chair of the Syrian American Council (2005-2011), and co-founder and former board member of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (1999-2007).
He is a prolific author and frequent speaker on issues of human rights, the Middle East, peace, leadership, and Islam and the West, and an advocate of human rights and civil liberties. He has authored 20 books, including "The Qur'anic Narrative" (Praeger 2008), "Tensions and Transitions in the Muslim World" (University Press of America, 2003), "Peace and the Limits of War" (IIIT 2001), and "The Challenge of Modernity" (University Press of America, 1994).
Dr. Safi has considerable experience in developing communications strategy as the Communications Director of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the official spokesperson of the main Syrian Opposition. He has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs, including CNN, BBC, Monte Carlo, Fox News, Sky News, Voice of America, PBS, Middle East TV (MBC), Aljazeera News and Aljazeera English, Al Arabiya News, Russia Today, Alhurra, Malaysian TV, Turkish TV, Syrian TV, Canada TV (CTV), Future TV, and others.
Research Interests
Political Theory and Comparative Politics
Ethics and Public Policy
Islamic Philosophy and Ethics
Political Participation and Human Rights
Islam and Globalization
Experience
Adjunct Professor
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Islamic Art and Architecture and Program Coordinator of MS in Islamic Art, Architecture and Urbanism
Dr. M. Tarek Swelim is Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at CIS. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University and a Master of Arts degree from the American University in Cairo. Dr. Swelim is the author of Ibn Tulun: His Lost City and Great Mosque (AUC Press, 2015). He is currently completing his new book on Mamluk history.
Dr. Swelim has recently contributed to the new exhibition catalogue, ‘The Arabesque: An Introduction' (IAMM Publications, 2018), which was launched at the British Museum in London.
Research Interests
Islamic Cairo
Mamluk Period (1250-1517)
Early Period of Islamic Egypt
Bilad al-Sham
Ancient Egypt and Egyptology
Experience
Program Coordinator of MS in Islamic Art, Architecture, and Urbanism
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- Associate Professor Middle East Studies
- Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at Hamad
Marc Owen Jones is an Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at Hamad bin Khalifa University, where he lectures and researches on political repression and informational control strategies.
His recent work has focused on the way social media has been used to spread disinformation and fake news in the Middle East.
In March 2019, he published ‘The Gulf Information War| Propaganda, Fake News, and Fake Trends: The Weaponization of Twitter Bots in the Gulf Crisis', in the ‘International Journal of Communication'.
His upcoming book on ‘Disinformation and Deception in the Middle East' will be published by Hurst Books and Oxford University Press in 2021.
His previous work has focused on political repression. His recent monograph, ‘Political Repression in Bahrain', was published in July 2020 by Cambridge University, Press.
Jones has won multiple awards for his work. Jones' PhD thesis in Government and International Affairs from Durham University won the ‘2016 Best Thesis' award from the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies. In 2021 he won the ‘UK alumni professional achievement' award from the British Council in Qatar. Through the course of his career he has won several awards for teaching both at Exeter University and HBKU. He is the editor of numerous books on Bahrain and the Gulf, including Gulfization of the Arab World, published in 2018 by Gerlach Press.
Jones also specializes in providing timely analysis on disinformation campaigns, and has taken an active role in numerous high profile investigations.
In addition to his academic publications, Jones has written for numerous international media outlets, including the Washington Post, CNN, the Independent and the New Statesman. His work features frequently in publications such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Guardian. He also makes regular appearances on BBC, Al Jazeera, LBC, CBC News, and many others. Jones grew up in Bahrain and Saudi, and has worked and studied in Sudan, Syria, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Research Interests
Disinformation
The Persian Gulf
Social Media
Political Repression
Information Controls
Experience
Associate Professor Middle East Studies and Digital Humanities
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- Vice President of Student Affairs
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- Associate Dean for Research
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- Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Comparative Fiqh
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- Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Islamic Financ
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- Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics / Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics
- Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics
Dr. Mohammed Ghaly is Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE) at CIS. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Islamic Studies from Al-Azhar University (Egypt) and Master of Arts and PhD degrees in the same specialization from Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Dr. Ghaly's main specialization is in the intersection of Islamic ethics and biomedical sciences, and he is presently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Islamic Ethics (published by Brill). Ghaly has lectured on Islamic (bio)ethics at many universities worldwide including Imperial College London, Oxford University, University of Oslo, University of Chicago, and Georgetown University.
Besides his book, Islam and Disability: Perspectives in Theology and Jurisprudence (Routledge, 2010), and the edited volumes, Islamic Perspectives on the Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Imperial College & World Scientific, 2016) and Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question (Brill, 2019), Ghaly is the single author of more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and serves on the editorial board of a number of academic journals. He is also the Lead Principal Investigator (LPI) and research consultant of a number of funded research projects.
Research Interests
Islamic Bioethics
Islamic Law
Science and Religion
Islam in the West
Genetics/Genomics
Experience
Program Coordinator, MA in Applied Islamic Ethics
Job Titles:
- Senior Researcher
- Senior Researcher / Muhammad Bin Hamad Al Thani Center for Muslim Contribution
Dr. Muhammad Modassir Ali earned his Bachelor's degree in Islamic Studies and his Master's and PhD in Comparative Religion from the International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI). He was selected twice for the Fulbright Scholar Program; in 2003 at the University of Santa Barbara and in 2008 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Having worked at his alma mater, IIUI, for some years where he taught courses on world religions, particularly Christianity and Indian religions, he moved to Qatar University in 2011, where he was Associate Dean for Student Affairs until 2014. In 2015, he joined the Muhammad Bin Hamad Al Thani Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization (CMCC) at CIS, HBKU.
Research Interests
Comparative Religion
Muslim Thought of the Sub-continent
Eastern Religions
Quranic Civilizations
Tasawwuf
Experience
Associate Dean of Student Affairs
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- Research Fellow, the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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- Professor of Islam and Global Affairs
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Methodology and Ethics and Program Coordinator of MA in Applied Islamic Ethics / Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics
- Methodology and Ethics and Program Coordinator of MA in Applied Islamic Ethics
Dr. Mutaz Al-Khatib is currently Associate Professor of Methodology and Ethics at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics, as well as the first-of-its-kind MA program in Applied Islamic Ethics at the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He holds a BA in Islamic Studies from Damascus (1997) and in Arabic Literature from Al-Azhar University.
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- Director, Center for Middle East Studies, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
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- Member of the Board
- Executive Vice President at the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey ( TÜBİTAK )
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- Assistant Professor
- Faculty and Research Affiliates
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- Professor of Migration, Human Rights, and Ethics
Dr. Syed Nazim Ali Director of the Research Division and Director of the Center for Islamic Economics and Finance (CIEF)
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- Member of the Board
- Vice Provost for Education and Professor of English at Georgetown University
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor in Master of Arts in Audiovisual Translation / Translation and Interpreting Institute
- Master of Arts in Audiovisual Translation
Dr. Rashid Yahiaoui is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar. He has a PhD in Translation Studies from London Metropolitan University, UK, and a Master in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Salford, UK. Dr. Yahiaoui has a wealth of experience lecturing in translation and interpreting, EFL, and academic writing. He also has extensive experience as a professional interpreter, working for the Foreign Office and National Health Service in the UK for over 10 years.
Research Interests
Audiovisual Translation
Ideology
Critical Discourse Analysis and Media Texts
Political Discourse Analysis
Translation Pedagogy and Curriculum Development
Experience
Assistant Professor
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- VP for Research, Development and Innovation
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- Professor of Usul Al - Fiqh and Objectives of Sharia, Qatar University
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- Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Lancaster University
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor in Master of Arts in Women, Society and Development
Sophie Richter-Devroe is Associate Professor in the Women, Society and Development Program at the College of Humanities and Social Science, Hamad Bin Khalifa University.
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- Associate Dean for Student Affairs
- Associate Professor of International Relations
Biography
Dr. Steven Wright is an Associate Professor of International Relations and an Associate Dean for Student Affairs. He previously served as an Associate Dean and the Head of the Department of International Affairs at Qatar University.
His area of research expertise relates to three main areas: US foreign policy toward the Gulf region, Energy Geopolitics, and the International Relations and Political Economy of the Arab Gulf states. He has written widely on these areas, and his work has been published in Arabic, Japanese, French, and Polish. He has also held research fellowships at the London School of Economics, Exeter University, and the University of Durham. He has been invited as a speaker at a wide range of events hosted by leading organizations such as the World Bank, various governments, and several multinational corporations.
He obtained his PhD in International Relations from the University of Durham.
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- Dean
- Dean / College of Law
Susan L. Karamanian is Dean of HBKU's College of Law. She previously held leadership positions at the American University of Sharjah and the George Washington University Law School. Susan is a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and was previously Vice President of ASIL. She was also President of the Washington Foreign Law Society. She has lectured on international law at the University of Paris, the OAS Academy of International Law, Tamil Nadu National Law School, the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and the Hague Academy of International Law (Director of English Studies). She has presented two lectures ("The Right to Property under International Law" and "The Intersection of Public International Law and Private International Law") as part of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law. She is a trustee of the Center for American and International Law, where she chairs the Southwestern Institute for International and Comparative Law, and a director of Texas Appleseed. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Council on Germany, the American Bar Foundation, and the Texas Bar Foundation.
Research Interests
International investment law
International human rights law
International business transactions
International banking and finance
International trade law
Experience
Provost
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- Director of the Research Division and Director of the Center for Islamic Economics and Finance ( CIEF )
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- Lecturer in Contemporary Islamic Studies, University of Oxford
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- Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities Within the Middle Eastern Studies Department of the College of Humanities
- Language Technologies for Social Media. INFuture 2017, Zagreb, Croatia / 2017
- Master of Arts in Digital Humanities and Societies
- RENAR: a Rule - Based Arabic Named Entity Recognition System. ACM Trans. Asian Lang. Inf. Process. 11 ( 1 ) : 2 ( 2012 ) . 2012
Dr. Zaghouani is an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities within the Middle Eastern Studies department of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU).
He received a Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing from the University of Paris Nanterre, and an M.A in Linguistics from the University of Montreal. His research interests span several areas of computational linguistics: Arabic Data Analytics, Linguistic Annotation, Language Resources and Evaluation, Fake News Detection, Sentiment Analysis, Lexical-Semantics and Computational Morphology. Over the years, he participated in multiple large scale human language technology projects such as the Penn Arabic TreeBank and PropBank, the Multi-Arabic Dialect Applications and Resources project (MADAR), The Qatar Arabic Language Bank in several universities and research institutions such as the University of Colorado Boulder, the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, the University of Montreal, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Zaghouani worked as a consultant in various international companies specialized in Big Data and Information Management such as Nuance, OpenText, Nstein Technologies, Temis France and Lionridge. He co-organized several international conferences and workshops such as Arabic Natural Language Processing workshops, the Social Media Analysis in the Arab World SocInfo 2019 workshop, The QICC Fake News Detection Contest, the CheckThat! Fact Checking CLEF Lab, The Arabic Author Profiling and Deception Detection FIRE 2019 Task, and the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) Conference. He published over 50+ peer-reviewed journal and conference publications cited 912 times with an h-index of 17.
Research Interests
Digital Humanities
Social Media Data Processing
Big Data Analytics
Corpus Linguistics
Language Resources Annotation and Evaluation
Computational Social Science
Arabic Natural Language Processing
Computational Linguistics
Rhetorical Analysis
Author Profiling
Open Sources Tools and Resources
Educational Technologies
Experience
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Franz Pöchhacker (ed) Routledge Encyclopedia of Interpreting Studies. London & New York: Routledge
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- Member of the Board
- Essa Bin Hilal Al - Kuwari Vice Chair, President - Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation "KAHRAMAA
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- Distinguished Visiting Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
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- Associate Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding
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- Assistant Foreign Minister of Qatar
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- Visiting Associate Professor
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- US District Judge, M.D. Alabama
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- Member of the Board
- Founder and Director of MakerBay, and CEO of Scoutbots and Protei
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- Member of the Board
- Chief Executive Officer of Qatar Investment Authority
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- Member of the Board
- Alfardan President and CEO Alfardan Group
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- Chief Executive Officer and Board Member, Qatar Financial Centre
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- FRSL Distinguished Author
Peter, F. Islam in France. Encyclopedia of Islam, Third Edition. Leiden.
Honors and Awards
Grant: 'Unit in Diversity: Approaching the Study of Islam as Tradition.' - CIS, HBKU, 2019
Grant: 'The Semantics of Tolerance and (Anti-)Racism in Europe: Public Bodies and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective' [Co-applicant in German Team] - European Commission (Seventh Framework Programme for Research)/European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, 2010-2013
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- Founder and Chairperson of Qatar Foundation Her Highness
Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser has been actively engaged in education and social reforms in Qatar for many years and has also national and international development programs in education, health and employment.
She is the Co-Founder and Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), a private non-profit organization founded in 1995 of which HBKU is a member. Its flagship project is Education City, which covers over 14 million square meters and houses branch campuses of renowned international universities and institutions. Her Highness founded HBKU in 2010, as the flagship national university within Education City.
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- Communications Organisationnelles, Management Et Numérique. L'Harmattan
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- Co - Author ) . ( 1997 ) . Iṣlāḥ and Tajdīd