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DrZouhir Gabsi

Senior Lecturer, Arabic and Islamic Studies

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences

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  • Senior Lecturer, Arabic and Islamic Studies
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • +61 3 924 46342 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Dr Zouhir Gabsi is a senior lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He also served as a Course Director (languages) from 2022 to 2025.

For two consecutive years, 2024 and 2025, Zouhir Gabsi was named Australia's leading researcher in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies by the Australian Research Magazine.

Zouhir Gabsi has broad research interests, including Discourse Analysis, minority languages, and, more recently, Islamophobia, the Arab Spring, Youth Identity, and Islamic Discourse.
Research Groups
Coordinator of Language and Culture Seminar Series (LCSS) at Deakin

POLIS (Politics and International Studies Group.

MESF (Middle East Studies Forum)

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Senior Lecturer, Arabic and Islamic Studies
    Deakin University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies
    Deakin University, Burwood, Australia30 Apr 2013 - present
  • Lecturer in Arabic and Linguistics
    Western Sydney University, Education, Richmond, Australia1 Mar 2003 - 31 Dec 2011

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Western Sydney
  • Master of Arts (Applied Linguistics)
    University of New South Wales
  • Bachelor of Arts (Diploma of Education)
    University of Western Sydney

LANGUAGES

  • Arabic
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • French
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Italian
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • German
    Can understand
  • Berber languages
    Can understand
  • Maltese
    Can understand

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Linguistics
  • Religious studies
  • Language studies
  • Anthropology
  • Historical studies
  • Discourse and pragmatics
  • Islamic studies

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences