Tutor information
Trevor Mostyn
Trevor Mostyn read Arabic with Persian at Edinburgh University, spending a year at the American University in Cairo. Later he taught at Algiers University, then travelled throughout the Middle East as a publisher and then set up and ran the Med Media Programme (media projects between the then 12 EU countries and the 12 Mediterranean non-member countries) for the European Union. He has published 8 books on the region, lectured on ships and written for many newspapers. He teaches Islamic Studies at Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education.
Courses
Islam and the West, Past and Present, will examine the relationship between Islam and the West historically, discussing why things have gone wrong since the invasion of Iraq and studying recent developments in Iran, Afghanistan and the Arab World.