Arabic linguistics, Qur’anic linguistics and exegesis, Qur’anic studies, Qura’nic text analysis and textuality, Arabic stylistics, Arabic rhetoric, and translation studies. View full profile

Arabic linguistics; Arabic language pedagogy; Arabic/English translation; Arabic dialectology (especially Sudanese Arabic); Functionalist linguistics. View full profile

Translation and interpreting, Modern Standard Arabic and Dialects View full profile

Comparative Politics in the Middle East & North Africa View full profile

Discourse analysis, classroom interaction and pedagogy; Arabic grammar and text interpretation; English and Arabic stylistics; Critical Discourse Analysis and media texts; Arab Media & Society; View full profile

Arabic and Francophone Literature and Cinema with focus on the Maghreb; Arab writers in the Diaspora with special emphasis on Eastern- Western encounters; colonial versus post-colonial relations View full profile

Islamic Legal Theory, Theology and Muslim Reformist Thought View full profile

Middle East politics and International relations, with particular interest in Palestine, Lebanon, the Gulf and inter-Arab politics View full profile