Our Team
Sarah Bowen Savant
Professor, AKU-ISMC, and Principle Investigator of KITAB
Professor Savant is a cultural historian specialising in the Middle East and Iran ca. 600-1500. Read more…
Maxim Romanov
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Romanov is a Universitätsassistent für Digital Humanities at the Institute for History, University of Vienna. Read more…
Masoumeh Seydi
Digital Lead
Masoumeh Seydi is KITAB’s Digital Lead. While completing her PhD at the Institute of Informatics, University of Leipzig. Read more…
Sohail Merchant
Technical Lead
Responsible for managing the infrastructure and developing the application architecture for KITAB. Read more…
David Smith
Digital Sirah Project
David Smith is an Associate Professor in Northeastern University’s College of Computer and Information Science. Read more…
Kevin Jaques
Digital Sirah Project
Kevin Jaques is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University. Read more…
Abdul Rahman Azzam
Digital Sirah Project
With a BA and Dphil from Oxford University, Dr Azzam’s focus is on the development of Islamic thought from the medieval to the modern Muslim world and the interaction between traditional Islam and modernity. Read more…
Ryan Muther
Digital Sirah Project
Ryan Muther is a PhD student in the Computer Science program at Northeastern University advised by Professor David Smith. Read more…
Gowaart Van Den Bossche
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Gowaart Van Den Bossche studied History and Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ghent University and the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo. Read more…
Mathew Barber
Research Associate - Digital Sira Project
Mathew Barber is a PhD Candidate at the department of Middle Eastern Studies in the University of Edinburgh. Read more…
Amal Imad
Grant Manager
KITAB’s team is supported by many members of the AKU computing staff, including:
- Jonathan Hughes
- Markus Bushell
- Eugene O’Donnell
- Mohammad Fahd
- Omer Manya
- Rafay Hassan