Academic staff
Professional staff
Lecturers/Tutors
Dr Claire Alkouatli, Senior Lecturer, currently teaches:
MCIM - Graduate Certificate in Education Islamic Education: Islamic pedagogy- Principles & Praxis - EDUC 5262
Short Program: Islamic Pedagogy - Distinctive Education Practice for Islamic Schools.
Ms Eman Aweida currently teaches:
MCIM - Graduate Certificate in Education Islamic Education: Critical Perspectives on Curruculum, Pedagogy, and Assessment - EDUC 5279.
Short Program: Islamic Pedagogy: Distinctive Education Practice for Islamic Schools.
Ms Nuraan Ahmed (Samodien) currently teaches:
MCIM - Graduate Certificate in Education Islamic Education: Islamic pedagogy- Principles & Praxis - EDUC 5262
Short Program: Islamic Pedagogy: Distinctive Education Practice for Islamic Schools.
Ms Hibba Mourad currently teaches:
Short Program: Islamic Pedagogy: Distinctive Education Practice for Islamic Schools.
Sr Mehr Iqbal currently teaches:
Short Program: Islamic Pedagogy: Distinctive Education Practice for Islamic Schools.
Sr Thamina Kassar currently teaches:
Short Program: Islamic Pedagogy: Distinctive Education Practice for Islamic Schools.
Adjunct Members
Dr Nadia Selim
Dr Nadia Selim is an Associate Lecturer in the Discipline of Arabic Language and Cultures at the University of Sydney. Her primary research explores Arabic language learning and teaching. She focuses on understanding Arabic learners’ motivation, experiences, and engagement. She examines the Islamic schooling sector and explores the history of Arabic language education between the 8th and 13th centuries CE (the Islamic Golden Age). Nadia’s academic contributions are reflected in both publications and presentations at national and international conferences. Her two most recent publications are “Reimagining Arabic in Islamic Schools” (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education) and “Arabic on the Silk Roads: Contact, Exchanges, and Civilization” (UNESCO).
Dr Salah Kutieleh
Dr Salah Kutieleh gained his PhD in Education 1996, following the successful completion of a thesis entitled: Foreign language Learners’ perception of textual relationships in the process of reading. The flinders University of South Australia
Master of Education, 1985, The Flinders University of South Australia
Diploma of Education majoring in TESOL, 1980. The University of Damascus, Syria
BA in English Language and Literature, 1980.
Higher Degree Research (HDR) Candidates
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Thesis: Muslim millenials in Islamic school leadership: factors impacting experiences and expectations. |
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Thesis: Abu Dhabi education reform cultural social and educational factors influencing the reform. |
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Thesis: Weaving Affective Awareness and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: An Ethnography of Teachers in Super Diverse Australian Classrooms. |
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Thesis: Towards developing a curriculum framework for Australian Islamic schools: al-Ghazali’s principles as a guide. |
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Ali Arabaci |
Thesis: Character Education in the Islamic Tradition and Its Implementation in Australian Islamic Schools. |
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Thesis: Tawqa in Australian Islamic Schools. |
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Thesis: Challenging Epistemological Coloniality through a Taymiyyan Framework and an Ecology of Knowledge for an Islamic Pedagogy of Liberation. |
Reem Musa |
Thesis: Student Perceptions of the Aims of Australian Islamic Schools. |
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Thesis: Islam, Muslims, Education and Schooling. |
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Thesis: The quality of early childhood teachers education preparation program at Sultan Qaboos University. |
PhD Completions
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Thesis: Australian trainers’ perspective on being culturally responsive: a case study of training programs for Indonesian Muslim teachers. Completed 2025 |
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Thesis: Muslim Australian youth and Countering Violent Extremism strategy: Towards an Effective Community Engagement Model . Completed 2025 |
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Thesis: Effective teachers documentation behaviors in a Reggio-Emilia program. |
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Thesis: Omani early childhood curriculum in light of national association of young children education (naeyc) developmentally appropriate practice. Completed 2024 |
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Thesis: Factors affecting interfaith dialogue: personal views and experiences of Uniting Church Christians and Sunni Muslims of Adelaide, Australia. Completed 2023. |
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Thesis: Women doing leadership: narrative inquiry of female leadership experiences in Indonesian Islamic higher education institutions. Completed 2023 |
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Thesis: Volunteering in Australian Islamic schools: students' perspectives, experiences, motivations and challenges. Completed 2023 |
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Thesis: Exploring Arabic learning motivation and experiences at Australian Islamic schools: Voices of non-Arab adolescent Muslims. Completed 2021. |
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Thesis: Islamic Legal Principles among Cultural Peoples: A Hanafī Jurisprudential Analysis of Marriage Consent in the Pashtun cultural context of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Completed 2019. |
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