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Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
(History), Muslims in China; Islam in global perspective

Peter J. Chelkowski
Persian Literature; mysticism; Islamic studies and performing arts of the Middle East
Medhat Credi
Arabic Language Instructor
Sibel Erol
Turkish Language; role of writing in teaching language; the uses of literature in language teaching; the novel; nationalism; women authors
Khaled Fahmy
Social history of the modern Middle East (emphasis on law and medicine); gender studies
Ahmed Ferhadi
Applied linguistics; sociolinguistics; Arabic & Kurdish linguistics; pedagogical applications of technology
Michael Gilsenan
Anthropology of Arab societies; forms of power and hierarchy; urban studies
Ogden Goelet
Egyptian cultural history; ancient Egyptian religion; Egyptian lexicography
Hala Halim
Modern Arabic literature
Amani Hassan
Arabic Instructor
Bernard Haykel
Islamic law and society; Yemeni society and history
Gabriela Nik. Ilieva
Foreign language pedagogy; gender and pragmatics in Hindi and Sanskrit; historical Indo-Aryan linguistics; medieval Indian poetics
Muhammad Kassab
Arabic Instructor
Marion Holmes Katz
Ritual purity; Islam
Philip F. Kennedy
Medieval Arabic language and literature; classical poetry and poetics; adab; narrative and fiction; recognition/anagnorisis in literature; Qur'an and Tafsir
Mohammad M. Khorrami
Computer-based language training; modern Persian literature
Elias Khoury
Global Distinguished Professor, modern Arabic literature (in residence every spring semester)
Tamer el-Leithy
Islamic history (starting September 2007)
Zachary Lockman
Modern Middle Eastern history
Mona N. Mikhail
Modern and contemporary Arabic language and literature; gender studies
Tahira Naqvi
Urdu Instructor
Leslie Peirce
Ottoman history
Francis E. Peters
Islamic history and religion; comparative Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Everett K. Rowson
Medieval Islamic literature; law; theology; gender and society
Ella Shohat
Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Transnational and gender studies

James Carse
Robert McChesney

Katherine E. Fleming
(History), post-Byzantine and modern Greek History; the Balkans; religious nationalism; European philhellenism
Finbarr Barry Flood
(Fine Arts), Art history, Islamic Art
Michael Gomez
(History), West African history; interconnections between Africa and the African diaspora
Alfred L. Ivry
(Hebrew and Judaic Studies), Islamic philosophy and theology
Farhad Kazemi
(Politics), Civil society and politics; urban and rural politics in the Middle East; political reform in the Middle East
Timothy Mitchell
(Politics), Comparative politics; international relations; Middle Eastern politics

Deborah Kapchan
(Performance Studies and Anthropology), Performance and cultural studies, folklore, Morocco
Ali Mirsepassi
(Gallatin School), Islam, democracy and modernity; Iranian history, politics and culture

Bindeshwari Aggarwal
Hindi Instructor
Mahshad Luka Kuruvila
Hindi Instructor
Amir Moosavi
Persian Instructor
Shiva Balaghi
Associate Director, Hagop Kevorkian Center
Sofian Merabet
Faculty Fellow/Assistant Professor, Hagop Kevorkian Center

Kisha Bailey-Rawls
Administrator
Lea Ellison
Administrative Aide

Nasr Abuzeid
University of Leiden, Distinguished International Visitor, Spring 2001
Athanasia Anagnostopouolou
University of Cyprus, Distinguished International Visitor, Fall 2000
Azyumardi Azra
State Institute for the Study of Islam, Indonesia, Distinguished International Visitor, Spring 2001
Rachida Chih
University of Aix-Marseilles I, Visiting Scholar, 1996-1997
John Davis
University of Kent: Distinguished International Visitor, September 1996
Selcuk Esenbel
Bosphorus University, Distinguished International Visitor, January 1997
Cornell Fleischer
University of Chicago, Visiting Professor, Fall 2000
Cigdem Kafescioglu
Bogazici University, Visiting Scholar, 1997-1998
Isam Khafaji
University of Amsterdam, CNES Distinguished International Visitor, November 1999
Mandana Limbert
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Residence, 2000-2001
Joseph Lowry
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 2000
Sumit Mandal
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Dinstinguished International Visitor, Spring 2001
Tozy Mohamed
Universite Hassan II, CNES Distinguished International Visitor, March and April 2000
James E. Montgomery
University of Leeds, Distinguished International Visitor, April 1997
Jürgen Paul
Martin-Luther-Universitat, Visiting Scholar, November and December, 1999
Rudolph Peters
University of Amsterdam, Distinguished International Visitor, April 1999 and March 2002
Hugh Roberts
London School of Economics, Distinguished International Visitor, March 1998
Reinhard Schulze
University of Bern, Distinguished International Visitor, October 1996
Seteney Shami
Social Science Research Council, Visiting Scholar, 1999-2001
Sasson Somekh
Tel-Aviv University, Visiting Scholar, 1998-1999; Visiting Professor, Fall 1999
Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson
Visiting Assistant Professor, 2001-2002
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Distinguished International Visitor, Spring 2000
Salim Tamari
Institute of Jerusalem Studies, Visiting Professor, Spring 1999, 2001 and 2003
Shawkat Toorawa
Cornell University, Non-resident Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2000-2001
Ali Muhammad Zaid
Le Delegation du Yemen, UNESCO, Distinguished International Visitor, March 2000.

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