Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
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