Delegates
Biographical notes on the main contributors to the conference are followed by a full list of delegates. You can jump to the delegates list by clicking here.
Biographical Notes
Lord Ahmed of Rotherham
Lord Nazir Ahmed was made a peer in the County of South Yorkshire in 1998. He was educated at Thomas Rotherham College, and Sheffield Hallam University. Lord Ahmed is a member of USDAW and the Metropolitan Borough Council Trades Unions. His career accomplishments include being a Company director, as well as a Business development manager for Kilnhurst Business Park. Lord Ahmed is a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Human Rights Commission, has previously served as Chair for the South Yorkshire Labour Party and as Vice-Chair of the South Yorkshire Euro-constituency Party.
Professor Stefano Allievi
Stefano Allievi, PhD, is currently working in the Department of Sociology, University of Padova, where he is Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Sciences of Communication and at the Faculty of Political Sciences. He specialises on migration issues, sociology of religion and cultural change and has particularly focussed his studies and research on the presence of Islam in Europe, to which he has dedicated many publications. Professor Allievi has recently participated in research on Islam in Europe financed by the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission, for which he has written several chapters: on Muslim and Politics, Media, Tensions and Debates in the Public Space, Interreligious Dialogue, International Dimensions (Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and across Europe, Leiden-Boston, Brill, forthcoming 2003). His other publications include Islam italiano, Viaggio nella seconda religione del paese (Italian Islam. A voyage into Italy's Second Religion), Torino, Einaudi, 2003; Musulmani d'occidente. Tendenze dell'islam europeo (Muslims of the West. Tendencies of the European Islam), Roma, Carocci, 2002; Un Dio al plurale. Presenze religiose in Italia (A God in Plural. Religious minorities in Italy), Bologna, EDB, 2001 (with G. Guizzardi & C. Prandi); Il Libro e la spada. Le sfide dei fondamentalismi (The Book and the Sword. The challenge of Fundamentalisms), Torino, Claudiana, 2000 (with D. Bidussa & P. Naso).
Mr Mahmud Al-Rashid
Mahmud Al-Rashid is a barrister in independent practice. He is an Executive member of the Association of Muslim Lawyers (AML), Chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), formerly Deputy Secretary-General of the MCB, a Council member of the Islamic Society of Britain (ISB), former President of the Young Muslims (UK) and former editor of Trends magazine. He is editor of a new Muslim lifestyle magazine EMEL to be launched this summer.
Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi
Ahmed Al-Shahi, MA, MLitt, DPhil (Oxon), has been a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College since 1996. His specialisation is Social Anthropology with specific references to Sudan and the Middle East. His fields of interest are economic development, social differentiation, sectarian politics, oral traditions and immigrants. Dr Al-Shahi was a University Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Khartoum from 1965-70 taught at the Institute of Social Anthropology and the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, between 1970-75. He was a Lecturer at the University of Newcastle from 1975-1996. Dr Al-Shahi has published widely on Sudan, the Middle East, Islam and the Gulf Shaikhdoms. Among his publications (as author, editor and co-editor): The Arab World and North Africa (Verona, 1973), Wisdom from the Nile (Oxford, 1978), Islam in the Modern World (Croom Helm, 1983), Themes from Northern Sudan (Ithaca, 1986), The Diversity of the Muslim Community: anthropological Essays in Memory of Peter Lienhardt (Ithaca, 1987), Disorientation, Society in a Flux: Kuwait in the 1950s (Ithaca, 1992) and Shaikhdoms of Eastern Arabia (Palgrave for St Antony's College, 2001).
Dr Valerie Amiraux
Valérie Amiraux is a Research Fellow at the Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique since September 2000. After the completion
of her PhD (1997) in political science on Muslim Turkish associations
in Germany, she was appointed as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European
University Institute where she was co- ordinating the Mediterranean Programme
of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Her research topics
focus on Muslims in Europe and more specifically on the institutional
path toward recognition of Islam in various countries. Her publications
include:
Acteurs de l'islam entre Allemagne et Turquie. Parcours militants
et expériences religieuses, Paris, L'Harmattan, coll. Logiques politiques,
2001; The Situation of Muslims in France, in Monitoring the EU Accession
Process : Minority Protection, volume II. Case Studies in Selected
Member States, Country Reports, Budapest, OSI, 2002, pp. 69-140 (accessible
sur le site www.eumap.org); Turkish Political Islam and Europe: Story
of an Opportunistic Intimacy , in J. Nielsen, S. Allievi (eds.), Muslim
Networks and Transnational Communities in and across Europe, Leiden, Brill,
2003, pp. 146-169; The Perception of Political Islam in Europe after September
11: Changing Paradigm or Changing actors ?, in A. Karam (ed), Transnational
Political Islam, Pluto Books, 2003 (forthcoming)
Dr Walter Armbrust
Walter Armbrust is Hourani Fellow at St Antony's College and University Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. He is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests focus on popular culture and mass media in the Middle East. He is the author of Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt, and editor of Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond. Dr Armbrust is currently working on a cultural history of the Egyptian cinema.
Lord Bhatia, OBE
Lord Bhatia works in the City of London in financial services and is actively involved in a wide range of voluntary and charitable work. He has been a trustee of Oxfam, the Community Development Foundation, WaterAid and a Board member of National Lottery Charities Board. He is the co-founder and chair of The Ethnic Minority Foundation which promotes and supports voluntary effort in ethnic minority communities across the UK. He has also been involved in health, education, training and employment sectors in London as a trustee of St Christopher Hospice, Project Fullemploy, and The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. He is the chair of SITPRO (Simpler Trade Procedures Board) a body sponsored by the Department of Trade. He also chairs the Local Investment Fund and the British Muslim Research Centre.
Professor Stephen Castles
Stephen Castles is Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies, and Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Until January 2001 he was Director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies at the Universities of Wollongong and Newcastle, Australia. Stephen Castles studied sociology at Frankfurt am Main, and took an MA and DPhil at the University of Sussex. He has carried out research on migration and multicultural societies in Europe, Australia and Asia for many years. He has also been involved in community education work in the UK and Southern Africa. From 1994 to 2001, Castles helped establish and coordinate the UNESCO-MOST Asia Pacific Migration Research Network. He has been an advisor to the Australian Government on immigration issues, and has carried out work for the ILO, the IOM, UNESCO, and other international bodies. His books include: Immigrant Workers and Class Structure in Western Europe (with Godula Kosack, London: Oxford University Press, 1973); Here for Good: Western Europe’s New Ethnic Minorities (London: Pluto, 1984); The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World (with Mark Miller, London: Macmillan, 1998); Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and the Politics of Belonging (with Alastair Davidson, London: Macmillan, 2000); and Ethnicity and Globalization: From Migrant Worker to Transnational Citizen (London: Sage, 2000).
Dr Jocelyne Cesari
Jocelyne Cesari is Principal Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Her training, professional experience, and academic expertise are in Political Science, the Middle East area and Islamic Studies. Dr Cesari has written numerous books and articles, in Muslim minorities in France and in Europe and their transnational links with the Muslim world at large. On behalf of the European Commission, she is currently coordinating "the Network on Comparative Research Islam Muslims in Europe" (NOCRIME, see website: www.nocrime.org). Dr Cesari's continuous investigation on Islam as a minority in secular and democratic contexts took her to the United States. Since 1998, she held several fellowships and professorships at Harvard and Columbia Universities. She is currently Research Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University where she is in charge of a research seminar on Islam in Europe and in the US in the aftermath of September 11th. She is also teaching on Muslims in Multicultural America and Transnational Islam at the Anthropology Department. Her publications include: (ed.) Musulmans d'Europe (European Muslims), Cemoti, Paris, 2002; Marseillais que moi tu meurs, Migrations, identités et territoires à Marseille (Migrations, Identities and Territory in Marseille) L'Harmattan, Paris, 2001; (ed.) Les anonymes de la mondialisation, (Anonymous Agents of Globalization,) Cultures et Conflits, Paris, No. 33-34, Paris, 1999.
Dr Lindsay Clutterbuck
Lindsay Clutterbuck is a Detective Chief Inspector in the Metropolitan Police Service, London. The great majority of his career has been spent in its Specialist Operations Department where he has been involved in numberous aspects of counter terrorism, ranging from policy through to strategy and operations. He recently graduated with a PhD from the University of Portsmouth after carrying out research into the origins and evolution of terrorism and counter terrorism in Britain during the Victorian period.
Professor John Esposito
John Esposito is a University Professor and founding Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University. His specialty is political Islam and the impact of Islamic movements from North Africa to Southeast Asia. He is Editor-in-Chief of the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Oxford History of Islam and the Oxford Dictionary of Islam, and his more than 25 books include: What Everyone Should Know About Islam: Questions and Answers; Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam; The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?; Islam and Politics; Islam and Democracy (with J. Voll); Islam: The Straight Path, and Women in Muslim Family Law. Professor Esposito teaches classes on Islam and Politics, Islam and the West, and Women in Islam, among others.
Mr Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is Director of the European Studies Centre, St Antony's College, and Gerd Bucerius Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary History. He has written extensively about the recent history of Europe in general and Central Europe in particular. His books include The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (1983); The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (1989); We the People: The Revolution of '89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague (1990); In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (1993), The File: A Personal History (1997) and, most recently, History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the 1990s. His current research interests include the way in which nations deal with difficult pasts, the development of the EU in the context of the larger Europe, and the shaping of European identity.
Sir Marrack Goulding
Sir Marrack graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, following which he joined the British Diplomatic Service. In 1975 he was seconded to the Home Civil Service to serve with the Central Policy Review Staff at the Cabinet Office and led the CPRS team which reviewed Britain's overseas representation, and produced the controversial Berrill Report, a majority of whose recommendations have since been implemented. His last post before moving to the UN was as British Ambassador to Angola (1983-85). As United Nations Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs (1985-97) he was in charge of a number of UN peace-keeping operations in the Middle East, Africa, southern Europe and Central America. He worked with Cyrus Vance in 1991-92 in negotiating the first UN plan for peacekeeping in the former Yugoslavia and negotiated the military aspects of the agreement to end the civil war in El Salvador. In June 1997 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Sir Marrack became Warden of St Antony’s in October 1997.
Dr Jeroen Gunning
Jeroen Gunning has recently been appointed Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. He holds a Masters degree in Politics of the Middle East from London University's School of Oriental and African Studies and obtained his PhD from the University of Durham in June 2000. From 2000-2002, he held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at St Antony’s College, Oxford, where he conducted research into the impact of political participation on the evolution of the political theory and praxis of the Lebanese Islamist movement Hizballah. He is currently developing and teaching a Master's programme in critical terrorism studies, while completing a book, based on his doctoral research, on pluralism, democracy and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. His research interests include Islamist political movements, Islamic political thought, social movement theory, conflict and critical terrorism studies, and democratisation studies.
Mr Roger Hardy
Roger Hardy is a Middle East and Islamic affairs specialist with the BBC World Service. After studying English at Oxford, he worked in book publishing and edited a monthly magazine ("The Middle East") before joining the BBC in 1986. His three areas of interest are the Arab-Israeli dispute, security and insecurity in the Gulf, and the politics of Islam. His radio series "Waiting for the Dawn", on the crisis of modernity in the Muslim world, was broadcast last year.
Dr Murad Wilfried Hofmann
Murad Hofmann, born in 1931 in Aschaffenburg, Germany, began his university education in 1950 at Union College, Schenectady, New York. In 1957 he graduated from Munich University Law School (bar exam; doctorate in jurisprudence). Following an Assistant Professorship in Civil Procedure, he studied American Law at Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1960). From 1961-1994 Dr Hofmann served in the German Foreign Service, e.g. as Director of Information for NATO in Brussels (1983-87), Ambassador to Algeria (1987-1990) and to Morocco (1990-1994). In 1980, Dr Hofmann embraced Islam. He published Diary of a German Muslim (now Journey to Islam); Islam: The Alternative; Journey to Makkah; Religion of the Rise - Islam in the 3rd Millennium: Islam; and Qur'an. He is also a regular contributor to The Muslim World Book Review, Islamic Studies, Encounters, and The American Journal of Islamic Social Studies.
Mr Khaled Hroub
Khaled Hroub is a former Visiting Fellow of the Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, and a Queens' College member. He is host of a weekly book-review programme on Al-Jazeera; author of Hamas: Political Thought and Practice (Washington DC) 2000, and editor of Arab Satellite Broadcasting: a force of integration or fragmentation in the Arab World (forthcoming, 2003). Mr Hroub worked for the Middle East Programme of the International Institute of International Studies, London (IISS); his latest publication related to this conference was 'Towards the deconstruction of Arab ghettos in the West after September 11, 2001', which appeared in 'Shu'un Arabyya' [Arab Affairs], March 2002, The Arab League journal, Cairo.
Professor Shireen Hunter
Shireen Hunter is the Director of the Islam Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. Her latest publications include: Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security, forthcoming M.E. Sharpe Inc. Winter 2003/4; Islam, Europe’s Second Religion, Westport Connecticut: Praeger, 2002; The Future of Islam and the West: Clash of Civilizations or Peaceful Coexistence, Praeger, 1998. Professor Hunter has also written extensively on Islamic Revivalism, Iran, Central Asia and the Caucuses.
Dr Gilles Kepel
Gilles Kepel holds degrees in Arabic, English and Philosophy, a diploma from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (IEP) and doctorates in sociology and political science. He is a Professor at the IEP, where he heads the post-graduate programme on the Arab and Muslim worlds. He was Visiting Professor at N.Y.U. in 1994 and at Columbia University in 1995-96.
Dr Farhad Khosrokhavar
Farhad Khosrokhavar is a professor at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales in Paris. He was born in Iran and from 1977-1979 was Assistant Professor in Bou Ali University, Hamadan, Iran. From 1979-1990 he was Associate Professor at the Center for Science Policy, Ministry of Culture and Higher Education, Iran, and from 1990-91 was Rockefeller Fellow. In 1991 he became an Associate Professor at EHESS-Cadis, becoming a full professor in 1998.His publications include Les nouveaux martyrs d'Allah, Flammarion, 2002; L'instance du sacré: essai de fondation des science sociales, Cerf, 2001; (with Alain Touraine) La recherche de soi, Fayard, Paris, 2000; (with Olivier Roy) L'Iran: comment sortir d'une révolution religieuse?, Seuil, 1999.
Mr Theodoros Koutroubas
Theodoras Koutroubas is currently completing a PhD thesis at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) on the interaction between religion and politics in the Middle East. His interests in particular include democratisation, secularisation, inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue and interactions, minority rights, religion-related security issues and Euro-Mediterranean relations. In the past few years he has published on these issues, notably with the European University Institute (Florence), the Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels), the Royal Institute of International Relations of Belgium and the Belgian French-speaking press. Theodorus is also collaborating on a permanent basis with the European Council of the Liberal Professions, as senior policy advisor.
Ms Maleiha Malik
Maleiha Malik is a Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, King's College, University of London. Her research interests include discrimination law. Her recent relevant publications include: Racist Crime 1999 (MLR 62:3 May) 409; 'Faith and the State of Jurisprudence', in Faith and Law, Douglas Scott, Oliver and Tadros (eds.), Oxford 2000; 'Minority Protection and Human Rights' in Sceptical Essays on Human Rights, Campbell Ewing and Tomkins (eds.), Oxford 2001.
Professor Peter Mandaville
Peter Mandaville is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, Virginia. He previously taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury in the UK. He hold degrees from the University of St. Andrews and the University of Kent. Visiting affiliations have included the National Islamic University in Indonesia and American University in Washington DC. He is most recently the author of Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma (London: Routledge, 2001), and has also co-edited The Zen of International Relations (London: Palgrave 2001) and Meaning and International Relations (London: Routledge, 2003). He has authored numerous book chapters, and contributed articles to journals such as Millennium and the Review of International Studies. In addition to various media appearances and consulting work, he has provided briefings to government agencies and testified before Congress on issues such as Saudi Arabia and al-Qaeda. Born and raised in the Middle East, much of his recent research has focused on transnational linkages between Islamist movements and intellectual developments within Muslim communities in the West. Current project include a teaching text, Global Political Islam, to be published by Routledge in 2004 and a study of the concept of cosmopolitanism in the Islamic tradition. In 2004, he will be a Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia.
Professor Jorgen S. Nielsen
Jorgen Nielsen is Professor of Islamic Studies, Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, and deputy head of the Department of Theology, University of Birmingham. He holds degrees in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and a PhD in Arab History from the American University of Beirut. He regularly lectures and participates in conferences in various parts of the world, including Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, the Philippines, the United States and various European countries, and has worked as a consultant to the Council of Europe on religious minorities, and to the Swedish Foreign Ministry on Islam and Europe. Since 1992 he has been a Trustee and Board member of the International Centre for Minorities and Intercultural Relations (IMIR), Sofia, Bulgaria. After many years of working on Islam in Europe, current research is concentrating on the Islamic debate on religious pluralism and relations with the West. Most recent publications include: Muslims in Western Europe (Edinburgh University Press, 1992, 2nd ed. 1995); Arabs and the West: Mutual Images as joint editor (Amman: University of Jordan, 1998); Towards a European Islam (London: Macmillan, 1999); Muslim networks and transnational communities in and across Europe, ed. jointly with S. Allievi (Leiden:Brill, 2003).
Professor Mario Nordio
Mario Nordio is a graduate of Venice University, Oriental Languages and Literature (Hebrew) having a Semitics (Hebrew, Arabic and Neo-Aramaic, suret and ghe'ez -) and iranic background. In 1976, he was grant winner CNR - Researches National Council (Semitic philology) and appointed professor in charge of Iran and Central Asia Religious History, full Reseacher in Iranian Studies in 1982 and Associated Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Iran and Central Asia in 1986. From 1987 to 1997 he was in charge of History of Iran since Islam to contemporary time and from 1998 he has been Professor of Asian History and Institutions. From 1996 to 1999, Professor Nordio was Chairperson of Oriental Languages and Civilisations Studies (Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia) and from 2001 vice-chairperson of LICEM (Eurasian and Mediterranean Studies) at Ca' Foscari. He has been a member of the scientific and teaching board of Arab-Islamic Studies PhD at Ca' Foscari since 2001. He is a member of the Italian "Orient Institute", "Italian-African Institute", "Armenian Studies Association: Padus-Araxes", "Association Italia-Russia", and founder and chairperson of "Italia-Armenia Association" from 1992 to 1998. His main research field is on cultural inter-actions in political institutions. He is active in Italian and European social associations. From 1980 to 1991 he was a member of the National Council of ACLI (Christian Workers Associations of Italy). He is also active in Italian NGOs and immigration organisations. From 1994 to 1999 he co-operated with Vatican Radio Broadcasting, from 1996 with Switzerland International Broadcasting Services and from 1997 with the RAI (national radio news and cultural services), especially on the Middle East.
Mr Cem Őzdemir
Cem Őzdemir is currently a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC, where he is exploring how minority groups organise politically in the United States in comparison to Germany. He is also speaking and writing about Turkey and minority integration in Germany. Mr Őzdemir has been a member of the German Green Party since 1981. He was elected to the German Parliament in 1994, where he served until 2002. Upon his election, Mr Őzdemir became the Bundestag's first member of Turkish decent. In his first term he acted as speaker on migration issues for the Green caucus and, after his re-election in 1998, became speaker for internal affairs for the governing coalition between the Social Democrats and Greens. Additionally, he served as chairman of the Bundestag's German-Turkish parliamentary friendship group. He has been recognised for his efforts to promote multicultural understanding with the Theodor Heuss Medal, awarded for his work on prejudice reduction, and the Civis Media Prize, for his advocacy of integration in Germany. Mr Őzdemir was also named "Multicultural Man of the Year" by Radio Multikulti/SFB in Berlin.
Dr Eugene Rogan
Eugene Rogan is Director of the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, and University Lecturer in the Modern History of the Middle East, University of Oxford. His research focuses on the social and economic history of the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire and the Arab states in the twentieth century. He is author of Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850-1921 and editor of Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East; The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (with Avi Shlaim); Village, Steppe and State: The Social Origins of Jordan (with Tariq Tell), and Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times (with Alan Bowman). He is editor of the new Cambridge University Press book series, The Contemporary Middle East.
Dr Anja Rudiger
Dr Anja Rudiger is a political theorist with policy experience in promoting race and gender equality. She holds the post of Executive Co-ordinator of the UK Secretariat of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, where her responsibilities include policy research, development and analysis. Anja is also a Trustee and non-executive Director of Women's Design Service, which works with disadvantaged women in London to improve the urban environment. Previously, she ran a small gender consulting organisation where she managed and carried out evaluations for the European Commission and other clients. Anja also works as a researcher and consultant on equality and diversity issues in Europe. Her research interests range from theories of democracy to comparative perspectives on politics of diversity. Her publications include Social Integration of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities, with Sarah Spencer (European Commission/OECD 2003); 'Equality in the Public Sector', European Lookout, Issue 7, Winter 2002/03; 'Diversity in Europe', in Speak Out! European Citizenship (London 2002).
Dr Nadim Shehadi
Nadim Shehadi is Director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford, and a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College.
Mr Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen
Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (b. 1963) is the head of the academic programme at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen. His field is contemporary Islam, more specifically the emergence of modern Muslim media, publicists and intellectuals, and their role in modern Muslim states. In recent years his focus has been primarily on the role of Islam in the new pan-Arab television networks, and the innovations in classical Muslim literary genres such as Koran interpretation and fatwas. He is the author of Defining Islam for the Egyptian State, Leiden: Brill, 1997.
Dr Sami Zubaida
Dr Zubaida is Reader in Sociology at the School of Politics & Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also Research Associate of the Centre for Near and Middle East Studies at SOAS. He has held visiting research and teaching posts in Cairo, Aix-en-Provence and Istanbul, and at Berkeley, California. He teaches Political Sociology and Religion, Culture and Politics on the MSc/MRes degrees, and the Formation of Modern Societies, and Magic, Science and Religion to undergraduates. His research interests are in religion, ethnicity and nationalism in Middle East culture and politics, and food and culture. Recent publications include Islam, the People and the State (1993, 2nd edition), A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East (1994) (edited with Richard Tapper), and Law and Power in the Islamic World (2003).
Delgates list
Ms Sara Ababneh, University of Wales at Aberystwyth
Mr Christian Ahlert, Postgraduate Student, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, House of Lords, London
Mr Ari Alexander, Magdalen College, Oxford
Mr Mockbul Ali, Ethnic Minorities & Faiths Group. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Professor Stefano Allievi, Department of Sociology, University of Padova, Italy
Mr Mahmud Al-Rashid, Association of Muslim Lawyers, UK
Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi, Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College
Dr Valerie Amiraux, CNRS/CURAPP, France
Dr Walter Armbrust, University Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, and Albert Hourani Fellow, St Antony's College
Dr Fred Astren, Skirball Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies and San Francisco State University
Mr Hayrettin Aydin, Foundation Centre for Studies on Turkey, Institute of Duisburg-Essen University, Germany
Dr Mustafa Badawi, Emeritus Fellow, St Antony's College
Mr Richard Barltrop, Doctoral Student, St Antony's College
Ms Leah Bassel, Postgraduate Student, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Mr Dimitar Bechev, Doctoral Student, St Antony's College
Mr Mohamed Ben-Madani, Founder & Editor, The Maghreb Review, London
Ms Teresa Bernheimer, Doctoral Student, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
Dr Gilles Bertrand, Deakin Visiting Fellow, St Antony's College
Lord Bhatia, OBE, House of Lords, London
Mr Jonathan Birt, Doctoral Student, Wolfson College, Oxford
Ms Annelies Blom, Postgraduate Student, St Antony's College
Ms Evelyne Bozzi, Postgraduate Student, St Cross College, University of Oxford
Dr Gary Bunt, Dept of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Wales, Lampeter
Professor Stephen Castles, Director, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Dr Jocelyne Cesari, Research Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Ms Myriam Cherti, London
Mr Frank Cho, Postgraduate Student, St Cross College, University of Oxford
Ms Meng-Hsuan Chou, Postgraduate Student, St Antony's College
Ms Shareefa Choudhury, Forum Against Islamophobia & Racism
Detective Chief Inspector Lindsay Clutterbuck, Metropolitan Police Service, London
Dr Anne Deighton, University Lecturer in European International Politics, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford
Dr Dick Douwes, ISIM, Leiden, The Netherlands
Dr Mansour Yousif Elagab, Sudan Human Rights Organisation, London
Dr Omer Yousif Elagab, Advocate, Reader in Law, City University, London
Mr Charles Ellis, New York & Paris
Mrs Sandi Ellis, New York & Paris
Professor John Esposito, Director, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
Dr Jeanette Esposito, Washington DC
Ms Sian Evans, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London
Ms Sherry Forbes, Postgraduate Student, St Antony's College
Mr Timothy Garton Ash, Director, European Studies Centre, St Antony's College, and Gerd Bucerius Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary History.
Dr Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Dept of Religious & Theological Studies, University of Cardiff
Dr Daniel Gordon, Alistair Horne Fellow, St Antony's College
Sir Marrack Goulding, Warden, St Antony's College
Dr Helga Graham, London
Dr Jeroen Gunning, Lecturer, Dept of International Politics, University of Aberystwyth
Dr Ahmad Gunny, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Professor Amy Gutmann, Provost, Princeton University
Mr Anis Haggar, London
Ms Otared Haidar, Postgraduate Student, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford
Professor J. Mark Halstead, Professor of Moral Education, University of Plymouth
Mr Sharif Hamadeh, Mansfield College, University of Oxford
Mr Roger Hardy, BBC World Service
Ms Christina Hellmich, Postgraduate Student, St Cross College, University of Oxford
Ms Julia Hieber, Department of Geography, University of Oxford
Mr Christian H. Hoffmann, Head of Media Committee, Central Council of Muslims in
Germany
Dr Murad Wilfried Hofmann, Germany
Ms Elaine Housby, Dept of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Open University
Mr Khaled Hroub, Writer & Broadcaster, Al-Jazeera
Professor Shireen Hunter, Director, Islam Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington DC
Dr Dilwar Hussain, Islamic Foundation, Leicester
Mr Robert Hutchinson, Chief Executive, Oxford Inspires
Dr Anita Inder Singh, Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College
Dr Gilles Kepel, Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (IEP)
Ms Lilia Khabibullina, Postgraduate Student, St Antony's College
Dr Farhad Khosrokhavar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale, Paris
Mr Theodoros Koutroubas, Doctorand, Catholic University of Louvain, SPRI, Belgium
Ms Anne-Marie Lacaux-Lavagne, Press & Public Affairs, British Embassy, Paris
Dr Pauline Lavagne d'Ortigue, Maison Francaise d'Oxford & Université de Lille III
Dr Richard Lawless, Emeritus Reader in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Durham
Mr Matteo Legrenzi, Doctoral Student, St Antony's College
Dr Alana Lentin, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Dr Philip Lewis, Inter-Faith Adviser to Bishop of Bradford & Lecturer in Peace Studies, Bradford University
Dr Nancy Lindisfarne, London
Dr James McDougall, Junior Research Fellow, St Antony's College
Dr Mohamed Mahmoud, Dept of Comparative Religion, Tufts University, USA
Ms Maleiha Malik, University Lecturer in Law, King's College, University of London
Mr Bona Malwal, Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College, Oxford
Professor Peter Mandaville, Assistant Professor of Government & Politics, George Mason University
Dr Peter Mangold, Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College
Ms Ssamar Mashadi, Director of Projects, Forum Against Islamophobia & Racism
Farnas Massoumian, Hertford College, University of Oxford
Ms Nazrin Mehdiyeva, Doctoral Student, St Antony's College
Mr Oliver Miles, CMG, Oxford
Ms Peggy Morgan, Lecturer, Study of Religions, Mansfield College, Oxford
Ms Asma Mustafa, Postgraduate Student, St Cross College, University of Oxford
Dr Basil Mustafa, Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford
Mr Riyad Mustafa, Doctoral Student, St Antony's College
Mr Shachar Nativ, Postgraduate Student, St Antony's College
Dr Julie Newton, Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College
Professor Jorgen Nielsen, Department of Theology and Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, University of Birmingham
Dr Christiane Nischler, Bavarian Bureau of Investigation
Professor Mario Nordio, Dept of Eurasian & Mediterranean Studies, Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia
Ms Su-Ann Oh, Research Fellow, Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford
Dr James Onley, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
Mr Cem Ozdemir, Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Dr Alison Pargeter, Research Fellow, King's College, University of London
Mr Liat Radcliffe, Postgraduate Student, St Antony's College
Mr Avi Raz, Postgraduate Student, St Antony's College
Mrs Cynthia Reed, Princeton & Paris
Dr Eugene Rogan, University Lecturer in the Modern History of the Middle East, University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Antony's College
Ms Stephanie Rollins, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
Ms Tilde Rosmer, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford
Dr Anja Rudiger, European Monitoring Centre on Racism & Xenophobia, UK Secretariat
Mr Alan Rush, London
Mr Gerard Russell, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London
Mr Marc St. John, Paris
Dr Yunas Samad, University of Bradford
Mr Swagato Sarkar, Postgraduate Student, St Antony's College
Dr Patricia Sellick, Muslims in Britain Project, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Dr Kasturi Sen, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
Dr N. Shamaa, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
Dr Nadim Shehadi, Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford
Professor Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations, St Antony's College
Dr Zachary Shore, Washington DC
Professor Ali Shukri, Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College
Ms Sara Silvestri, Doctoral Student, St John's College, University of Cambridge
Dr Shuhrat Sirojiddinov, Visiting Scholar, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Mr Julian Simmonds, London
Dr Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen
Professor Annabelle Sreberny, University of Leicester
Dr Suha Taji-Farouki, Lecturer in Modern Islam, University of Durham & Visiting Fellow, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Mr Daniel Urman, Postgraduate Student, St Antony's College
Dr Gabriele vom Bruck, London
Dr Mai Yamani, Royal Institute of International Affairs
Dr Sami Zubaida, School of Politics & Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London
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