History and Anthropology of Islam; Islamic Law; Sufism; Mobility; Pilgrimage; Indian Ocean; Southeast Asia; South Arabia; Modernity and Secularism; Semiotics; Imaginary & Politics of Space; Temporality
Faculty
Ismail Fajrie Alatas

Ali Adeeb Alnaemi

Middle Eastern politics, media, and methods of teaching Arabic language
Yass Alizadeh
Persian language and literature
Ghada Badawi
Arabic, Foreign Language Assessment, Foreign Language Testing and Using Technology to Create Interactive Materials
Abigail Balbale

Islamic rulership and the caliphate; Art and Material Culture of the Islamic world; Medieval Iberia and the Maghrib; Coexistence and violence among Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Mediterranean
She was awarded a Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellowship for Scholars (CASA III). She will spend Spring 2024 at the Arab American language Institute in Meknes, Morocco.
Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer

Early Modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Iran, Sunni-Shiite Divide, Sects and Sectarianism in the Middle East, Empire and Identity Formation in the Middle East
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

African Diaspora, Global History, Early Modern and Modern Chinese History, Asian and European Islam, Religion and World History, Middle Eastern History, History of Geography, Arab-Jewish and Mizrahi History
Rajni Bhargava

Heritage learners, differentiation in the classrooms, teaching Hindi poetry and developing debating skills at the advanced level.
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Sibel Erol

Turkish Language; role of writing in teaching language; the uses of literature in language teaching; the novel; nationalism; women authors; postmodernism; masculinities; film
Hala Halim

Modern Arabic, English and Anglophone literatures; postcolonial theory; cosmopolitanism; Mediterraneanism and Levantinism; South-South comparatism; Nahda and comparative modernities; Translation Studies; travel literature; globalization; urban cultures
Amani Hassan
Modern Arabic Language, Egyptian colloquial, teaching Arabic as a foreign language, the importance of culture in language teaching, translation , Egyptian women authors, Egyptian cuisine.
Khaled Al Hilli
Asli Igsiz
Political violence, eugenics, humanism, spatial segregation and forced migration, and cultural policy
Gabriela Nik. Ilieva

Gender and pragmatics in Hindi and Sanskrit, Medieval Indian poetics, historical Indo-Aryan linguistics, foreign language pedagogy
Marion Holmes Katz

Islamic law (shari'a), gender, and ritual
Arang Keshavarzian

Comparative politics of the Middle East; political economy; modern Iran, Persian Gulf; transnationalism, imperialism; urban politics
Zachary Lockman
Modern Middle Eastern history
Ali Mirsepassi

Contemporary social theory; sociology of religion; Islam and modernity; Middle Eastern societies and cultures; postcolonial studies; knowledge, citizenship, and geography; critical globalization
Tahira Naqvi

Urdu language and literature, South Asian literature, translation, language pedagogy
Sara Pursley

Modern Middle East history; Iraq; economic development and modernization theory; gender and sexuality; postcolonial studies; histories of psychology and selfhood; conceptions of time and space; state formation and sovereignty; US empire.
Ella Shohat

Arab-Jews and Memory; Representation of Palestine and Israel; Hebrew Mizrahi Literature and Cinema; Iraqi Culture; Arab-American and Arab Diasporic Studies; Media/Cultural Studies; Visual Culture; Gender Studies; Postcolonial Studies.
Helga Tawil-Souri
Israel/Palestine; Media and Cultural Politics; Geography, Borders, Infrastructure; Globalization
ADJUNCT, AFFILIATED, & VISITING FACULTY
Sinan Antoon

pre-modern Arabo-Islamic culture; classical and modern Arabic poetry; the Arabic novel; gender and sexuality; postcolonial theory; contemporary Arab culture and politics
Finbarr Barry Flood

Art and architecture of the Islamic world, Cross-cultural dimensions of Islamic material culture, Theories and practices of image-making, Technologies of Representation, Art historical historiography, methodology, and theory, Orientalism
Michael Gomez

West Africa, African Diaspora, Islam, Slavery, Social and Cultural Transformations.
Deborah Kapchan

Narrative, poetics, feminist theory, music, aesthetics, North Africa and the Middle East.
Sarah J Pearce

Hebrew and Arabic literature of Iberia; mester de clerecía; 12th- and 13th-century Castile; the translation movement; history and literature of the "tres culturas"; literary representations of Alexander the Great; history of literature; historical readings of literature; codicology
Peter J. Chelkowski

Literature, mysticism, Islamic studies and performing arts of the Middle East.
Ahmed Ferhadi

Second Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Language Testing and pedagogical applications of technology.
Michael Gilsenan

Anthropology and sociology of Islam, history and anthropology, narrative theory, anthropology of power and violence, urban studies, cultural representation
Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami

Modern Persian fiction: Stylistics and Aesthetics; Sensory Language in Persian Literature
Robert McChesney
Early modern history of Iran and Central Asia.
Mona N. Mikhail
Modern and contemporary Arabic language and literature; gender studies
Everett K. Rowson

Medieval Islamic literature, law, theology, gender and society
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Arabic Faculty
Ali Adeeb Alnaemi

Middle Eastern politics, media, and methods of teaching Arabic language
Ghada Badawi
Arabic, Foreign Language Assessment, Foreign Language Testing and Using Technology to Create Interactive Materials
Amani Hassan
Modern Arabic Language, Egyptian colloquial, teaching Arabic as a foreign language, the importance of culture in language teaching, translation , Egyptian women authors, Egyptian cuisine.
Khaled Al Hilli
Hindi Faculty
Rajni Bhargava

Heritage learners, differentiation in the classrooms, teaching Hindi poetry and developing debating skills at the advanced level.
Gabriela Nik. Ilieva

Gender and pragmatics in Hindi and Sanskrit, Medieval Indian poetics, historical Indo-Aryan linguistics, foreign language pedagogy
Persian Faculty
Yass Alizadeh
Persian language and literature
Turkish Faculty
Sibel Erol

Turkish Language; role of writing in teaching language; the uses of literature in language teaching; the novel; nationalism; women authors; postmodernism; masculinities; film
Urdu Faculty
Tahira Naqvi

Urdu language and literature, South Asian literature, translation, language pedagogy