About
Mapping Connections: China and Contemporary Development in the Middle East is a three-year research project based at the University of Exeter’s Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies. Funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and in collaboration with the Arab Council of Social Sciences (ACSS) and the InterAsia Partnership, the project supports and mentors Early Career scholars working on various aspects of the Middle East’s evolving relationship with China. In addition to creating new knowledge about China and the Middle East, the project seeks to strengthen academic collaboration between scholars working in (and on) the Middle East and China. The project is led by Professor Adam Hanieh and supported by an Advisory Board of prominent scholars.
Team
Meet the Mapping Connections Team
Adam Hanieh
Professor of Political Economy and Global Development, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS)
Sarah Wood
Research Project Coordinator, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS)
Kanwal Hameed
Research Fellow, Mapping Connections, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS)
Mingyi Liu
Research Fellow, Mapping Connections, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS)
Maha Abdelrahman
Professor in Development Studies and Middle East Politics, University of Cambridge
Arang Keshavarzian
Associate Professor and Department Chair, NYU
Seteney Shami
Director-General of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences
Laleh Khalili
Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London
Tim Pringle
Reader in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London
Zachary Lockman
Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, and History, NYU
Partners
Our partner institutions in the Mapping Connections project
