Research Strengths in Arabic and Islamic Studies

Areas of research in the department include:

Associate Professor Ahmad Shboul: Arabic thought: classical & modern; Islam in the contemporary Arab world; Modern Islamic movements; Arab political culture; Arab and Muslim communities in Australia and Arab-Australian cultural relations; Arab Islamic historiography and human geography; Arab-Greek cultural relations in history and modern times; socio-cultural and intellectual history of the Middle East.

Dr. Nijmeh Hajjar: Arabic language and literature; Arabic political discourse; Arabic political and social thought; Arabic society and culture; Arab and Muslim Women; Arab and Muslim communities in Australia; Arabic media; and Arab and Muslim issues in the Western media.

Professor Rifaat Ebeid: Arabic and Syriac philosophical and medical works of Aristotle, Galen and Rhazes; Muslim-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages.