Previous posts have included periods in Cairo, as Coordinator of Graduate Studies at the Evangelical (Presbyterian) Theological Seminary, Director of the Centre for Middle East Christianity at the ETSC, and adjunct lecturer in Islamic studies at the Dar Comboni Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies. Dr Grafton’s academic interests focus on Christian-Muslim relationships in the Middle East, including 19th and 20th century Islamic socio-political thought, 19th and 20th Protestant missionary thought on Islam, and Middle East Christianity. Dr Grafton is a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.