Middle Eastern Studies Research
PhD
In London
Description
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Type
PhD
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Location
London
Overview
Research income: The Department of Middle Eastern Studies recently received a grant for £10,000 on Radical Islam in Europe. £45,000 for the Uses of Foreign Aid in the Middle East.
Current number of academic staff: 9.
Current number of research students: 60.
Recent publications:
Memory and Conflict in Lebanon: Remembering and Forgetting the Past - Dr Craig Larkin
Lebanon: After the Cedar Revolution - Professor Michael Kerr (co-edited with Dr Are Knudsen - Christen Michelson Institute)
Inglorious Disarray: Europe, Israel and the Palestinians since 1967 - Professor Rory Miller;
Investing in the Middle East: The Political Economy of European Direct Investment in Egypt - Dr Ashraf Mishrif;
Britain, Palestine and Empire: The Mandate Years - new edited volume by Professor Rory Miller.
Current research projects:
Europe and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
Europe and the Middle East: Trade, Society & Peace.
Turkey, Israel and the United States.
Islamic Radicalism in Europe.
Anti-Zionism in the Modern World.
Arab-Israeli Conflict.
Facilities
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Subjects
- Conflict
- Professor Training
Course programme
Our research programme offers a unique and exciting environment for the in-depth study of the varied aspects of the Mediterranean and Middle East. The programme has attracted students from all over the Middle East and Mediterranean (including Egypt, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iraq, Bahrain and Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates), as well as Europe, Japan, Canada and the United States. Students are carrying out research in areas as diverse as the Middle East Peace process, the history of Zionism, Greek-Turkish foreign relations, Euro-Arab and Euro-Mediterranean political and economic relations; Israel's foreign and domestic policy; and the foreign policy of the Arab world; Social change in Kuwaiti Society, UAE National Security Policy.
Middle Eastern Studies Research
