Berkley Center

Shirin Shafaie is research fellow and member of the Reading the Bible in the Context of Islam project at the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies in Oxford. Her research interests include narrative theory, intertextual and inter-theological hermeneutics, critical war studies, and faith-based diplomacy. She is an editor of and contributor to Reading the Bible in Islamic Context: Qur'anic Conversations (2017) and author of “‘Bringing Faith Back In’: Muslim and Christian Approaches to Nuclear Disarmament and (Non-)proliferation” in Contemporary Muslim-Christian Encounters: Developments, Diversity and Dialogues (2015). She is currently writing a monograph titled Reading Genesis 37–50 in Conversation with Islam. Shafaie studied philosophy (B.A.) and philosophy of art (M.A.) in Iran, as well as Middle East politics (M.Sc.) and film and TV (M.A.) in the United Kingdom. She completed her doctoral research on “Contemporary Iranian War Narratives: A Dialectical Discourse Analysis” at SOAS, University of London, where she has taught Middle East politics to master's degree students. Shirin is also the founder and director of Visual Academics Ltd.