University of Mississippi

Faculty Member, Croft Institute of International Studies and History

Other Affiliations: London School of Economics, ASEN
SOAS University of London, London Middle East Institute

Croft Assistant Professor in History and International Studies of the Middle East

About

Vivian Ibrahim is Croft Assistant Professor of History and International Studies of the Middle East at the University of Mississippi. She completed her PhD in 2009 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where she is currently also a Research Associate for the London Middle East Institute (LMEI). She holds a BA in History from King's College London (2002) and a MSc. in the History of International Relations (2003) from the London School of Economics.

Her main research interests include:
-Religious and ethnic minorities in the Middle East
-Nationalism and Political Islam
-Islam in Europe.
She has taught at several universities in the UK including Birkbeck College and SOAS where she was a Senior Teaching Fellow. Between 2009 and 2010 Ibrahim completed a one year post-doctoral research position examining European-Muslim identities at University College Cork, Ireland. 



Ibrahim has regularly appeared and commentated on Bloomberg TV, the BBC and Al-Jazeera on issues related to the Middle East. She has also published extensively including in The Arab Reform Bulletin (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) and for Fair Observer.

Her books are:

Ibrahim "The Copts of Egypt: Challenges of Modernisation and Identity", London: IB Tauris, 2010

Ibrahim and Wunsch, "Political Leaderships, Nations and Charisma", Routledge, 2012.

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