People

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

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

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

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