Full-time and Part-time Staff »Dr Rola Fazaeli

Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies Research Fellow

Contact:

• Room 5029, Arts Building
• Phone: 01-896-1409
• Email:fazaelr@tcd.ie

Academic Degrees:

• B.A. (Mod) (TCD), MPhil (TCD), PhD (NUIG)

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Posts:

• Lecturer in Islamic Studies

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Teaching and Departmental Responsibilities:

• Head (partial) JF
• JF: Introduction to Islamic Theology
• SS: Islam and Gender
• MPhil (Irish School of Ecumenics): Human Rights in Theory and Practice

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Fellowships and Scholarships:

Recipient of the Government of Ireland Scholarship in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2007-2008.

Visiting Scholar to Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University, New
York, 2007.

Visiting Scholar to the Feminist Legal Theory Project (FLT), Emory University School of Law,
Atlanta, 2006.

 

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Research Projects:

• I am working together with Prof. Dillon, Classics Department, on a project of researching the influence of Greek philosophy on the medieval Muslim, Christian and Jewish thinkers particularly on the subject of the "human soul". This research project consists of 12 articles and 12 contributors and editing them towards publication.

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Publications:

• Co-authored with Dr. Elizabeth Bucar, Free speech in Weblogestan? The Off-Line Consequences of On-Line Discourse, International Journal of Middle-Eastern Studies 40:3, August 2008.
• Contemporary Iranian Feminism: Identity, Rights and Interpretations, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Article 8, 2007.

  All in the Family? Islam, Women, and Human Rights: A Conference Report, Religion and Human
  Rights, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2006, pp. 305-310.

• Contributor to the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples: Afghanistan, World Directory of
  Minorities, Minority Rights International.
• The Developing Iranian Civil Society: Governmental or non-Governmental Organisations? Muslim Public Affairs Journal, Jan. 2006.
• Book Reviews:
• Co-authored with Prof. Joshua Castellino, The Role of Islam in the Legal System of Pakistan by
  Martin Lau, Religion and Human Rights, Vol.1, No. 2, pp.197-207.
• Co-authored with Jeroen Temperman Islam and the Secular State, Negotiating the Future of
  Shari’a by Abdullahi An-Na’im, Religion and Human Rights, Forthcoming.

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