This page includes a directory of MENA faculty by college.
Mohammad Almasri
ConocoPhilips Associate Professor of Arabic Language, Literature and Culture, Department of International & Area Studies
Abolghasem Bayyenat
Farzaneh Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Iranian Studies
Manata Hashemi
Farzaneh Family Associate Professor of Iranian Studies, Department of International & Area Studies
Husnia Hazara
Visiting Scholar from Afghanistan
Amel Khalfaoui
Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Department of International & Area Studies
Joshua Landis
Sandra Mackey Chair & Professor of History, Department of International & Area Studies
Director, Center for Middle East Studies and Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies
Natalie Letsa
Wick Cary Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Department of International & Area Studies
D Gershon Lewental
Adjunct Professor, Department of International & Area Studies
Waleed Mahdi
Assistant Professor of US-Arab Cultural Politics, Department of International & Area Studies
Afshin Marashi
Farzaneh Family Chair of Iranian Studies and Professor of Middle Eastern History (Iran), Department of International & Area Studies
Kayhan A. Nejad
Farzaneh Family Assistant Professor of Iran Studies
Mina Raminsabet
Visiting Scholar, Persian Language and Literature
Mehri Rezaee
Visiting Scholar from Afghanistan
Samer Shehata
Colin Mackey and Patricia Molina de Mackey Associate Professor of Middle East Studies, Department of International & Area Studies
Zeynep Aydogdu
Assistant Professor, Gateway to Belonging and Women's and Gender Studies, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Hossam Barakat
Instructor, Arabic, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Khosrow Bozorgi
Professor of Architecture, Gibbs College of Architecture
Rangar Cline
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Firat Demir
L. J. Semrod Presidential Professor of Economics, Arabic, Department of Economics
Jill Hicks-Keeton
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Ori Kritz
Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Literature and Head of the OU Hebrew Program, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Alan Levenson
Professor and Schusterman/Josey Chair in Judaic History, Department of History
Roberta Magnusson
Associate Professor, Department of History
Bala Saho
Associate Professor, Department of History
Rhona Seidelman
Associate Professor and Schusterman Chair in Modern Israel Studies, Department of History
Marjan Seirafi-Pour
Farzaneh Family Instructor of Persian, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Director of Outreach Programs, Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies
Carsten Schapkow
Professor, Department of History and Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies
Director, Center for the Study of Nationalism
Shmuel Shepkaru
Schusterman Professor of Jewish Intellectual and Religious History, Department of History
David Vishanoff
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Michael Winston
Associate Professor, 18th-Century French Literature, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Saleh S. Tabrizy
Associate Professor, Tom Love Division of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
Daniel Simon
Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief
Ekaterini Akarepi
Instructor, Middle Eastern Music, School of Music