Academic Staff

Chair of Department

  • 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.

Honorary Associate Professor

  • Associate Professor Ahmad Shboul
    Arabic Thought: classical and modern; Political Islam in the contemporary Arab world; Arab political culture; Arab-Australian cultural relations; Arab Islamic historiography and human geography; the Arab-Hellenistic cultural interface in the eastern Mediterranean; socio-cultural change and continuity in the history of Arabia and the Fertile Crescent

Honorary Associate

  • Ross Burns, BA
  • Professor Rifaat Ebied

Casual Academic Staff

  • Ifdal Elkaset
  • Nejmeh Habib
  • Claudine Mansour
  • Ghassan Nakhoul
  • Tara Povey