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 [...]
Dr Muhammad Isa Waley Curator for Persian & Turkish, Asian and African Studies at British Library Expertise: Persian, Turkish and Arabic manuscripts: palaeography, codicology, illumination, illustration, cataloguing etc. Dr Waley is a Member of the Islamic Manuscript Association. Dr Waley co-authored a recent (2014) publication The Mughals: Life, Art and Culture: Mughal Manuscripts and [...]
Dr Marios Hadjianastasis Historian of the Ottoman Empire, the early modern Mediterranean and global history and an academic practice advisor at the Centre for Learning and Academic Development (CLAD) at the University of Birmingham Dr Hadjianastasis has PhD in Ottoman History from University of Birmingham (Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies). [...]
Dr Jan Fidrmuc Senior Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics and Finance, School of Social Sciences and Centre for Economic Development and Institutions (CEDI), Brunel University, London, UK Dr Jan Fidrmuc is a Senior Lecturer in Economics,Department of Economics and Finance, School of Social Sciences and Centre for Economic Development and Institutions (CEDI),Brunel University, London, [...]
Tony Osborne London Bureau Chief, Aviation Week After working for four years in regional newspapers in his hometown of Swindon, Tony Osborne followed his passion for aviation landing a job with Shephard Media a small defence publishing house acting as deputy editor on two helicopter magazines, before joining Aviation Week as the U.S. [...]
Dr Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay Associate Professor in Islamic Art and Architecture at the Faculty of Oriental Studies and a Fellow of Wolfson College Dr Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay is currently an Associate Professor in Islamic Art and Architecture at the Faculty of Oriental Studies and a Fellow of Wolfson College. Her research interests include the late [...]
Dr Nur Sobers-Khan British Library, Lead Curator for South Asia Dr Nur Sobers-Khan completed a PhD in Islamic History in 2012 at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University Cambridge, having previous completing a BA in Oriental Studies (Arabic and Persian) at the same institution in 2006. Her PhD [...]
