Ali Bayindir PhD candidate in History at the University of Dundee, UK Ali Bayindir (BA History, Harran University; MBA Cardiff Metropolitan University) is a final year PhD candidate in History at the University of Dundee, UK. His research is based on the Ottoman and British archives and it focuses on Ottoman relations with [...]

Ana Maria Albulescu PhD Candidate in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London Ana Maria Albulescu is a PhD candidate in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, researching the interplay between local and international dimensions of contested statehood in the post-Soviet space. She has studied International Relations at the [...]

Dr Nikolaj Serikoff Welcome Library As a scholar, the graduate of the Moscow University Dr Nikolaj Serikoff belongs to the St Petersburg academic school of Classical Arab Studies. His research methods to a major extent were influenced by the traditions laid by the eminent scholars of St Petersburg University, such as: Baron Victor [...]

Seref Kavak Former Academic Coordinator at LCSS & Researcher at Keele University Seref Kavak is a PhD candidate and Module Tutor in Politics and International Relations at Keele University in Staffordshire. He received his B.A in Politics and International Relations at Marmara University and M.A in Modern Turkish History at Bogazici University in [...]

Natalie Wortley Barrister & Principal Lecturer in Law, Northumbria University Natalie Wortley is a barrister and Principal Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University. She was called to the Bar in 1999 and is a member of New Park Court Chambers. She is Deputy Director of the Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies [...]

Dr Filippo Costa Buranelli Teaching Fellow at King's College London (KCL) & University College London (UCL) Filippo holds a BA cum laude in International Sciences and European Institutions from the University of Milan, Italy. He also holds an MSc (with distinction) in International Relations Theory from the London School of Economics and Political [...]

Celeste Gianni Library assistant, Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation Celeste Gianni is library assistant at Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation since 2012. She is also Ph.D. candidate at SOAS, University of London - Department of Near and Middle East. Her research project is entitled: “Poetics of the catalogue: library catalogues in the Arab cities of the late Ottoman period“. Her recent [...]

Karima Benaicha Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, Head of the Library & Online Database Department Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, Head of the Library & Online Database Department Karima Benaicha has been with Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation since 1997, serving as Head of the Library & Online Database Department since 2007.  Karima has a Bachelor’s degree [...]

Dr Colin Heywood Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull, UK Dr Heywood has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (1965, 1967-8); the University of Michigan (1967-8, 1969-71), and Tufts University, Boston (1971-4); subsequently at SOAS, from 1974 to his retirement in 1999. He has been a visiting Professor at Princeton [...]

Dr Fred Anscombe Head of Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, BA History (Yale), MA and PhD Near Eastern Studies (Princeton), Reader in Modern History Dr Anscombe’s research interests lie in the history of the Ottoman Empire and Post-ottoman States, ranging from the late seventeenth to twentieth centuries. While [...]