Marcia C. Inhorn PhD, MPH, is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. She also serves as Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies. Before coming to Yale in 2008, Inhorn was a professor of medical anthropology at the University of Michigan and president of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. A specialist on Middle Eastern gender and health issues, Inhorn has conducted research on the social impact of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and Arab America over the past 20 years. She is the author of three books on the subject, Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt (Routledge, 2003), Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt (U Pennsylvania Press, 1996) and Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions (U Pennsylvania Press, 1994), which have won the AAA's Eileen Basker Prize and the Diana Forsythe Prize for outstanding feminist anthropological research in the areas of gender, health, science, technology, and biomedicine. She is also the editor or co-editor of six books, including Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society (Oxford U Press, 2009), Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium (Berghahn Books, 2007), and Infertility around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies (U California Press, 2002). She has been a visiting faculty member at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, where she has conducted studies on “Middle Eastern Masculinities in the Age of New Reproductive Technologies” and “Globalization and Reproductive Tourism in the Arab World.” She is the founding editor of JMEWS (Journal of Middle East Women's Studies) of the Association of Middle East Women's Studies, and co-editor of the Berghahn Book series on "Fertility, Sexuality and Reproduction."
E-mail: marcia.inhorn@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/history/faculty/amanat.html

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Adel Allouche, Lecturer in History and Religious Studies.
E-mail: adel.allouche@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/history/faculty/allouche.html

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Ala Alryyes, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English, has been At Yale since 2000. Prof. Alryyes's focus includes 18th-century British and French literature and intellectual history, the early 19th-century novel, literature of empire and exploration, genealogies of modernity, the Arabic novel and film, as well as slave narratives. He has taught courses on realism and the evidence of the senses, European philosophy, the eighteenth-century novel, and the literature of empire. He is particularly interested in the novel and its formal relations to society and history as well as in the Enlightenment and its literary productions.
E-mail: ala.alryyes@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/complit/alryyes.html

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Abbas Amanat, Professor of History and International and Area Studies, received his B.A. from Tehran University in 1971 and D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1981. His principal publications include Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 (1997) and Resurrection and Renewal: the Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850 (1989).
E-mail: abbas.amanat@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/history/faculty/amanat.html

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Harold W. Attridge, Dean of Yale University Divinity School & Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament, has made scholarly contributions to New Testament exegesis and to the study of Hellenistic Judaism and the history of the early Church. He has been an editorial board member of Catholic Biblical Quarterly, the Harvard Theological Review, the Journal of Biblical Literature, and the Hermenia Commentary Series. He is active in the Society of Biblical Literature and served as its president.
E-mail: harold.attridge@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/divinity/faculty/Fac.HAttridge.shtml

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Muhammad Aziz, lector in Arabic. Muhammad Aziz was educated at Sanaa University in Yemen, where he majored in English literature and minored in Arabic language. After graduation, he had the opportunity to join several circles of local scholars, where he received traditional training in Arabic syntax, recitation of the Quran, speculative theology, law and relevant topics in Yemeni as well as Islamic history.

He then pursued graduate study at the University of Michigan, where he earned two M.A. degrees from the Center for Middle East and North African Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Studies.  His doctoral dissertation, Medieval Sufism in Yemen: The Case of Ahmad Ibn Alwan, was written under the direction of Professor Alexander Knysh.  While at Michigan, he taught Modern Standard Arabic.

His next teaching post was at Princeton University, where he was a lecturer in Modern Standard Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Studies.  In 2005, he joined the faculty at Yale, teaching Elementary Modern Standard Arabic and supervising one section of Spoken Arabic. In addition to these, He is now teaching Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic.

His pedagogical approach involves particularly the integration of new ideas or methodologies that may contribute productively to enhancing the linguistic, communicative, and cultural competencies of learners.  He regularly participates in national conferences on the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language, the last of which was in June 2008, where he attended a four-day OPI workshop supervised by ACTFL at Middlebury College.

He is currently revising the last third quarter of his doctoral dissertation and getting it ready for editorial review. He is also working on a translation of two medieval treatises written by Ibn Alwan (d. 665/1266).  In addition, he has written several articles in Arabic at www.yemeniamerican.com and an English article in the newspaper The Yemeni American News, Vol. 1, 3rd Issue, August 2008 titled: The Alawiyyah Sufi Order in Yemen. He is also in the editorial board of the same newspaper.
E-mail: Muhammad.aziz@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/nelc/maziz.html

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Omer Bajwa is the Coordinator of Muslim Life at Yale University. Before coming to Yale, he served as the Interim Muslim Chaplain at Cornell University from 2007-2008. He received his MA in Near Eastern Studies, with a specialization in Islamic Studies, from Cornell's Department of Near Eastern Studies, where he also served as the Outreach Coordinator. He also earned an MS in Communication from Cornell, and a BA in English Literature and Rhetoric from Binghamton University. His interests include Islam in the United States, Islam and the global media, and transnational religious and intellectual networks. He has been engaged in religious service, social activism, and educational outreach for the past eight years.
E-mail: omer.bajwa@yale.edu


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Gerhard Böwering has been Professor of Religious Studies in Islamic Studies since 1984. He has published Mystical Vision of Existence in Classical Islam: The Qur'anic Hermeneutics of the Sufi Sahl at-Tustari, as well as numerous articles. Work in progress includes the following books: Islam and Christianity: the Inner Dymanics of Two Cultures of Belief and The Dreams and Labors of a Central Asian Muslim Mystic.
E-mail: gerhard.bowering@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/religiousstudies/aboutfaculty.html#Gerhard

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James Cohen is the Assistant Secretary of the University responsible for coordination of university activities in Africa and the Middle East. Prior to his appointment at Yale, Jim spent nearly ten years as a career diplomat with the United States Department of State's Foreign Service, with postings on three continents and on the staffs of Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. Jim received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Emory University and a Master's in the History of International Relations from the London School of Economics.
E-mail: james.cohen@yale.edu

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Adela Yarbro Collins is the Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at the Yale University Divinity School. Educated at Harvard University (Ph.D. 1975), Prof. Yarbro Collins received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo, Norway, in 1994. Her scholarly contributions have treated the book of Revelation, Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, Hellenistic religions, Gospel literature, and Hellenistic biography.
E-mail: adela.collins@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/divinity/faculty/Fac.AYCollins.shtml

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John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University. He previously taught at the University of Chicago and at Notre Dame. He received his Ph. D. from Harvard (1972). He has served as editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature, as president of the Catholic Biblical Association (1997) and as president of the Society of Biblical Literature (2002). He is co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism (Continuum, 1998).
E-mail: john.j.collins@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/divinity/faculty/Fac.JCollins.shtml

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Joseph Cumming, Director of the Center for Faith & Culture's newly established Reconciliation Program, focuses on reconciliation with the Muslim world, rooted in the three Abrahamic faiths and the teachings and person of Jesus. He is a doctoral candidate in theology and Islam at Yale University. Prior to coming to Yale, Joseph served for 15 years in Muslim North Africa as Director of a Christian humanitarian organization working in nutrition, public health, agriculture, microcredit and emergency relief.
E-mail: Josph.cumming@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/faith/center/cumming.htm

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John C. Darnell, Professor of Egyptology. Professor Darnell's research interests include ancient Egyptian religion, cryptography and the texts of the Graeco-Roman period. He is an expert on Ancient Egyptian rock inscriptions and lapidary hieratic. Darnell has taught a wide range of courses in ancient texts, from those dealing with the underworld and cosmography to love poetry and magic spells. He serves on the Council on Archaeological Studies, is the director of the Yale Egyptological Institute, and the Theban Desert Road Survey.
E-mail: john.darnell@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/nelc/jdarnell.html; Egyptology website

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Stephen Davis is Professor of Religious Studies, specializing in the history of Christianity in late antiquity. He offers courses on the social and theological history of ancient Christianity from its beginnings to the seventh century, with a special focus on the latter half of this period. His areas of teaching and research include the study of women and gender, pilgrimage and the cult of the saints, the history of biblical interpretation and canon formation, and Egyptian Christianity.
E-mail: stephen.davis@yale.edu
Homepage: http://pantheon.yale.edu/%7Edavstrel/stephendaviscv.htm

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Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj, Research Scientist in Neurology, and has been on the faculty of the Department of Neurology and the Center for Neuroscience and Regeneration Research at Yale since 1995. He received his B.S (1977) and MS (1982) from the American University of Beirut, and PhD (1990) from the Ohio State University. His current research focuses on the molecular basis of neurological disorders including neuropathic pain.
E-mail: sulayman.dib-hajj@yale.edu

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Ayala Dvoretzky, Senior Lector and Coordinator of Hebrew Program from 1991 to the present. Courses taught include Elementary Modern Hebrew, Intermediate Modern Hebrew, Advanced Modern Hebrew, and Language of the Media. Professor Dvoretzky is also fluent in Hebrew, English, and Yiddish.
E-mail: ayala.dvoretzky@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/nelc/advoretzky.html

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Mine Eder is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. Her research areas are international and comparative political economy, international cooperation and regionalization, political economy of Turkey and EU-Turkish relations. Her current project, focuses on a shopping district in Istanbul(Laleli) which has become the center of informal trade with the former Soviet Republics after the end of the Cold War.
E-mail: eder@boun.edu.tr

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Sameh El-Naggar, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Lector
E-mail: sameh.el-naggar@yale.edu

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Narges Erami , Associate Research Scientist in Anthropology
E-mail: narges.erami@yale.edu

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Owen M. Fiss, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University, was educated at Dartmouth, Oxford, and Harvard. He clerked for Thurgood Marshall (when Marshall was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit) and later for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. Before coming to Yale, Professor Fiss taught at the University of Chicago. He teaches procedure, legal theory, and constitutional law.
E-mail: owen.fiss@yale.edu
Homepage: www.law.yale.edu/faculty/OFiss.htm

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Benjamin Foster, William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature, is a noted specialist on Mesopotamian -- particularly Akkadian -- literature, as well as on the social and economic history of Mesopotamia. A member of the Yale faculty since 1975, Foster is also interested in the history of Oriental scholarship in the United States. He has been curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection since 2001.
E-mail: benjamin.foster@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/nelc/bfoster2.html

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Karen Polinger Foster (A.B. 1971, Mount Holyoke College; M.A. 1974, M.Phil. 1974, Ph.D. 1976, Yale University) specializes in the art and archaeology of the Bronze Age Aegean, with particular interests in interconnections with Egypt and the ancient Near East. Her current major research project involves the final preparation of a book on the treatment of exotic flora and fauna in the art of the ancient Near East and Aegean, considered in the wider context of such material from classical to modern times.
E-mail: karen.foster@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/nelc/kfoster.html

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Steven Fraade is the Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism. His research interests include the history of Judaism (in its varieties) in Second Temple and rabbinic times; biblical translation and exegesis in ancient Judaism and Christianity; the history and rhetoric of ancient Jewish law; and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
E-mail: steven.fraade@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/religiousstudies/facultypages/fraade.html

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Eckart Frahm, was appointed Assistant Professor of Assyriology in 2002. His main research interests lie in the fields of Assyrian and Babylonian history and Mesopotamian scholarly texts from the first millennium B.C.. Before coming to Yale, he worked on ancient Mesopotamian hermeneutics as fellow of an interdisciplinary graduate institute at the University of Heidelberg.
E-mail: eckart.frahm@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/nelc/efrahm.html

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Michael Gasper, Assistant Professor, received his B.A. from Temple University in 1991, his M.A. from New York University 1996 and his Ph.D. from New York University in 2004. He previously taught at NYU, York College (CUNY system) and Albright College and has joined the Yale history faculty as a Middle Eastern specialist. His general area of interest is the social, cultural and intellectual history of the modern Arab world. His work focuses on the question of secularism and the interaction of Islam and nationalism. He also works on modern Islamic reform and activist movements and on attitudes towards the West in the Middle East.
E-mail: michael.gasper@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/history/faculty/gasper.html

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Zareena Grewal
E-mail: zareena.grewal@yale.edu

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Frank Griffel Professor of Islamic Studies, teaches courses on Islamic intellectual history and Islamic theology and philosophy. He focuses amongst others on developments in contemporary Muslim thought. He is author of Al-Ghazali’s Philosophical Theology (Oxford University Press 2009), Apostasy and Tolerance in Islam (in German, Brill 2000), as well as of numerous articles in academic journals. Together with Abbas Amanat he edited Shari’a: Islamic Law in the Contemporary Period (Stanford University Press 2007). In 2003-04, he was Mellon Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
E-mail: frank.griffel@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/religiousstudies/facultypages/griffel.html

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Beatrice Gruendler, Arabic Language and Literature, is engaged mainly in three areas of research: the development of Arabic script, medieval Arabic poetry and its social context, and the integration of modern literary theory into the study of Near Eastern literatures. She wrote her first book on The Development of the Arabic Scripts, in which she demonstrates their Nabatean origin and traces their early Islamic forms, based on dated texts.
E-mail: beatrice.gruendler@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/nelc/bgruendler2.html

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Shiri T. Goren, Lector in Modern Hebrew. Shiri Goren (B.A., Magna cum Laude, Tel Aviv University, 2001; M. Phil. New York University, 2006) joined Yale’s faculty in 2006 as a Lector in Modern Hebrew. Her dissertation project, Terror at Home: Literary Engagement with Political Crises in Israel 1993 – 2006 focuses on novels by Israeli women authors and explores literary critiques of violence and the interrelations between terror, space and domesticity. Her areas of research include: Israeli literature and culture; Gender studies; Genealogy of nation building; Zionism and Post-Zionism; Postcolonial theory; and Yiddish studies.  Beyond her focus on contemporary Hebrew fiction, Goren is also committed to understanding the role of Yiddish as a minority language in European and Israeli society.  Before coming to the United States, she was a journalist and senior editor of news magazines on Israeli television and radio.
E-mail: shiri.goren@yale.edu
homepage: www.yale.edu/nelc/sgoren.html

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Dimitri Gutas, Professor of Arabic and Graeco-Arabic, did his undergraduate and graduate work at Yale in classics, history of religions, and Arabic and Islamic studies. He studies and teaches medieval Arabic and the medieval intellectual tradition in Islamic civilization from different aspects. At the center of his concerns lies the study and understanding of classical Arabic in its many forms as a prerequisite for the proper appreciation of the written sources which inform us about the history and culture of Islamic societies.
E-mail: dimitri.gutas@yale.edu
Homepage:www.yale.edu/nelc/dgutas.html

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Hamada Hamidwas born in Baghdad, Iraq but was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After graduating medical school at Michigan State University and an internal medicine internship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, he worked as a Fulbright Fellow in Jordan studying depression in Jordanian women and stroke care in a Jordanian tertiary center. He completed a combined neurology and psychiatry residency and a Masters degree in Global Public Health, concentrating in epidemiology, at New York University.

He has published several articles and book chapters on mental health and Muslim cultures and is the founding and current managing editor of the Journal of Muslim Mental Health. His current research interests include epilepsy and depression, the role of culture in the presentation and management of neuropsychiatric illnesses, and mental health policy in the Middle East. As the Director for Center of Global Health at the Institute for Social Policy & Understanding, he coordinates health policy research as it relates to Muslim populations.
Email:hamada.hamid@yale.edu

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Christine Hayes, Robert F & Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Religious Studies, Acting Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Judaic Studies
Email:christine.hayes@yale.edu

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Charles Hill, Senior Lecturer in International Affairs and Distinguished Fellow in International Security Studies As a Foreign Service Officer of the United States with the rank of Career Minister, Charles Hill focused particularly on the Arab-Israeli conflict as an aide to Secretaries of State Kissinger and Shultz. Subsequently he served as policy adviser to UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General, also working on Middle Eastern affairs. At Yale Charles Hill is Senior Lecturer and teach in the International Studies and Humanities majors and in the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy in which he is a Distinguished Fellow. His primary area of research and expertise is in international diplomacy with special reference to the Middle East.
E-mail: charles.hill@yale.edu

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Frank Hole, Professor Emeritus, taught at Rice University for seventeen years before coming to Yale in 1980. He has been head of the Anthropology Division of the Yale Peabody Museum, and C. J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology. Hole has traveled and carried out archaeological, ethnographic and land use research in the Near East, first in Iran and currently in Syria. His specialty is the history and development of agriculture and animal husbandry.
E-mail: frank.hole@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/anthropology/people/fhole.html

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Kirk Hooks, Special Assistant to the Dean of Student Affairs for Intercultural and Intergroup Relations, Intercultural Affairs Council Coordinator, and Acting Director of the Native American Cultural Center Kirk’s rich and varied background makes him extremely well-suited for this role. At Yale, he provides a wide range of workshops and other services to promote understanding, collaboration, leadership, and citizenship within Yale’s diverse community. Before coming to Yale in 2008, Kirk was the multicultural programs specialist in the Program on Intergroup Relations at the University of Michigan. He has a B. A. in psychology at the University of Arizona, and an M. S. W. at the University of Georgia, and has had a prior career as a therapist and counselor. Kirk has also provided student counseling services in cross-cultural settings in the Middle East. Kirk is proudly multiracial, with roughly equal African, Native American (Cherokee, Blackfoot, Seminole) and Caucasian (Swedish) ancestry.
E-mail: kirk.hooks@yale.edu

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Ghassan Husseinali, Arabic Lector.
E-mail: ghassan.husseinali@yale.edu

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Stanley Insler is Salisbury Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at Yale University, where he has served several terms as chairman of the Linguistics Department. His studies include Rigveda, Zarathustra and the history of Zoroastrianism, Metrical texts of the Pali Buddhist Canon, History and structure of the old languages of India and Iran, Indian narrative literature, Silk Road Studies, and Avesta.
E-mail: insler-stanley@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/linguist/faculty/insler.html

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Ulla Kasten, is the Associate Curator and Museum Editor of the Yale Babylonian Collection. She studied archaeology at the universities of Athens and Copenhagen and cultural history at Istanbul University.
E-Mail: ulla.kasten@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/nelc/babylonian.html

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Boutheina Khaldi, is currently a lector of Arabic (B. A., Manouba University, 1998; M.A., Manouba University, 2000; Ph.D. Indiana University, 2008, double major in classical and modern Arabic literature and comparative literature). She joined  the faculty of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 2006 after she had taught in a number of institutions including Manouba University (Tunisia), Indiana University, and Duke University. Her research interests include women’s literary salons in Arabic, French, and English, women’s literary production in eighteenth-and nineteenth- century France, women’s biographies, Arabic novel from center to periphery, classical and modern Arabic poetry in translation.
E-Mail: boutheina.khaldi@yale.edu

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F. Nihan Ketrez is currently a Lector of Turkish in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations . Prof Ketrez also plays an integral role as a Researcher with the Crosslinguistic Project on Pre-/Proto-morphology in Language Acquisition at the Instutut fur Sprachwissenschaft of the University of Vienna. Austria.   She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California , Los Angeles, in August of 2005.
E-mail: fatma.ketrez@yale.edu
Homepage: pantheon.yale.edu/~fnk2/

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Adria Lawrence, Assistant Professor of Political Science Adria Lawrence is Assistant Professor of Political Science. Her research interests include nationalist and ethnic conflict, colonialism and empire, authoritarianism, state formation, and Middle East and North African politics. Her current project “Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism,” investigates the conditions that encouraged populations to revolt against empire in both violent and non-violent ways. She focuses particularly on nationalist resistance in colonial Morocco. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program and the American Institute for Maghrib Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in December 2007.
E-mail: email: adria.lawrence@yale.edu


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Lilia Labidi, Visiting Professor
E-mail: labidi.lilia@yahoo.com

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Bentley Layton, Professor of History, Classics & Religious Studies, received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1971. He is currently the Goff Chair of Religious Studies at Yale University, and has taught classes on History of Christianity from the origins to Islam, Gnostic religion and literature, Coptic language and theory of syntax, Ancient manuscript studies, and Ancient Monasticism.
E-mail: bentley.layton@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/history/faculty/layton.html

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James F. Leckman, MD is a member of the Child Study Center faculty and is a child psychiatrist. He is interested in the interaction of genes and environment in the development of the human CNS. He also has a long-standing interest in patients and families with Tourette's Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Among other activities, Dr. Leckman is the Founder of ERICE Empowerment & Resilience in Children Everywhere) an initiative to promote mental health among Palestinian and Israeli children, the victims of a violent conflict.
E-mail: james.leckman@yale.edu
Homepage:www.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/faculty/leckman.htm

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Ellen Lust is Associate Professor of Political Science. Her research concerns the dynamics of political opposition, the formation of political institutions, and the links between foreign policy and domestic crisis, focusing on the Middle East. Her articles have appeared in International Interactions, Middle Eastern Studies, and edited volumes.
E-mail: ellen.lust-okar@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/polisci/people/elust-okar.html

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Fereshteh Amanat-Kowssar is Senior lector in Persian language and literature in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. She is also a published creative writer (in Persian) and has most recently published a novel entitled The Outrage of Silence, published both in the United States and in Iran, for which she won the Isfahan Literary Prize in 1984. Her other book, published in the United States is called: We, Children of the Alley: Sketches of Life in the '50s and '60s.
E-mail: fereshteh.amanat-kowssar@yale.edu

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Colleen Manassa, (B.A., Yale 2001, Ph.D. 2005) joined the faculty of the
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations as the Marilyn M. and William K. Simpson Assistant Professor of Egyptology in 2006. Her research interests include Egyptian grammar, New Kingdom literary texts, military history, funerary religion, and social history. Colleen Manassa's latest monograph is a revised and expanded publication of her PhD Thesis, /The Late Egyptian Underworld: Sarcophagi and Related Texts from the Nectanebid Period/, which presents the reuse of Underworld Books on Thirtieth Dynasty and early Ptolemaic sarcophagi in their Late Period context. A joint monograph with John Coleman Darnell entitled /Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and Conquest in Ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty /appeared in August, 2007. Prof. Manassa teaches widely on the history and literature of ancient Egypt, including a new joint course
with Prof. Beatrice Gruendler entitled "Egyptian Literature through the Ages," which uses genre-based comparisons to examine literature of the Nile Valley from the third millennium until the present day.
E-mail: colleen.manassa@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/nelc/cmanassa.html


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Andrew F. March teaches political theory in the Political Science department. He has a special interest in Islamic political thought, especially the Islamic legal tradition. He teaches courses on Islamic Political Thought, Islamic Law & Ethics, and Islam & Liberalism. He has written on the problem of Islam and liberal citizenship, namely on the intersection of liberal theory and the Islamic jurisprudence of Muslim minorities (fiqh al-aqalliyyat).
Email: andrew.march@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/polisci/people/amarch.html

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Nadia Marzouki
Email:nadia.marzouki@yale.edu

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Susan B. Matheson, the Molly and Walter Bareiss Curator of Ancient Art and Chief Curator, oversees the Gallery's collections of ancient art. She has organized exhibitions on Dura-Europos, Greek vases, and neo-classical and Gothic Revival art, and was co-curator of I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome . Her publications include Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens , and she has written and lectured extensively on ancient glass, vases, and sculpture at Yale. Among her current projects is an exhibition on old age in Greek and Roman art.
E-mail: susan.matheson@yale.edu
Homepage: http://artgallery.yale.edu/pages/collection/permanent/pc_ancient_over.html

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Alan Mikhail is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History.  His research and teaching lie in the fields of Ottoman history, the comparative history of early-modern empires, the history of Islamic science and medicine, and environmental history.  He is currently completing a book-length project on the history of irrigation in Ottoman Egypt, and his future projects include studies on the history of medicine and disease in the early-modern Islamic world and on the history of coffee in the Ottoman Empire.  From 2008 to 2010, he is a Fellow through the Stanford Humanities Fellows Program.
E-mail: amikhail@stanford.edu
Homepage: www.alanmikhail.org

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Shaul MIshal Research Scholar in Middle East Studies
E-mail: mishal@post.tau.ac.il
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Mushfiq Mobarak, Assistant Professor at the School of Management
E-mail: mushfiq.mobarak@yale.edu
Homepage: http://mba.yale.edu/faculty/profiles/mobarak.shtml

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Mahmood Monshipouri is Professor of Political Science at Quinnipiac University. He has been an affiliated scholar at the Council of Middle East Studies at Yale University since 2004. His research interests are Globalization, Democratization, and Human Rights in the larger Middle East.
E-mail: monshipour@quinnipiac.edu
Homepage: faculty.quinnipiac.edu/libarts/polsci/monsh.asp

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Hala Kh. Nassar, Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Culture and Literature. Her research interests focus on contemporary cultural and literary productions in the Arab world, especially in Palestine. She is mainly engaged in twentieth-century drama and theatrical production of the postcolonial/colonial Arab world. She researches the relationship of contemporary Arabic poetry, to address various social and political issues of the Arab world.
E-mail: hala.nassar@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/nelc/hnassar.html

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Shady Nasser, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Lector
E-mail: shady.nasser@yale.edu

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Robert Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor of Art History
E-mail: robert.nelson@yale.edu

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Sean O'Fahey
Email:sean.ofahey@hi.uib.no

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Tarik Ramahi earned his medical degree and completed postgraduate clinical training in internal medicine and cardiology at Yale University School of Medicine. He served on the faculties of Yale School of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, specializing in Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology. He later served as Consultant with the United Nations Development Program in the Palestinian territories and Consultant Cardiologist at the Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem. Currently he is Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at Al-Quds University Faculty of Medicine and practices cardiology in the Palestinian territories. Dr. Ramahi has a broad clinical experience, ranging from academic medicine through community medicine to medicine in underserved communities, developing countries, and areas of conflict. Dr. Ramahi is interested in medical and health education, health care delivery, and in cardiovascular disease in the Middle East.
E-mail: tarik.ramahi@yale.edu


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Asghar Rastegar, is Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of International Health Program in the Department of Medicine. Prof. Rastegar's primary interest is in the broad area of health care workforce development in developing world, with special emphasis on internal medicine and nephrology. For the past three decades he has been involved internationally in developing educational programs for training of physicians in the developing world. He has worked extensively in Iran (where he was on the faculty for 10 years), Russia and most recently sub-Saharan Africa.
E-mail: asghar.rastegar@yale.edu
Homepage: www.med.yale.edu/intmed/nephrol/pages/Rastegar.html

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W. Michael Reisman is Myres S. McDougal Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, where he has been on the faculty since 1965. He has been a visiting professor in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Berlin, Basel, Paris, and Geneva. Professor Reisman has published widely in the area of international law and he has served as arbitrator and counsel in many international cases.
E-mail: michael.reisman@yale.edu
Homepage: www.law.yale.edu/faculty/WReisman.htm

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Kishwar Rizvi teaches the history of Islamic art and architecture as well as seminars on modern architecture in the Middle East and South Asia. Her current research is on representations of religious and imperial authority in the art and architecture of Safavid Iran. She is the co-editor of Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century, (University of Washington Press, 2008). She has also written on issues of gender, nationalism and religious identity in the contemporary art and architecture of Iran and Pakistan.
E-mail: kishwar.rizvi@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/arthistory/faculty/faculty_directory3.htm

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Youval Rotman, Assistant Professor, who received his Ph.D. from Paris X-Nanterre and Tel Aviv Universities in 2002, is a historian of Byzantium. His main field of interest is social history of the Eastern Mediterranean World from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages. He has written his dissertation on slavery in the Byzantine World and is currently working on Arab-Byzantine relationships and on Byzantine hagiography.
E-mail: youval.rotman@yale.edu
Homepage:www.yale.edu/history/faculty/rotman.html

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Noah Salomon, is a post-graduate associate at the Council on Middle East Studies. His research explores public religious criticism among Sufi and Salafi movements in contemporary Sudan within the context of the creation of the Islamic state and its more recent unraveling. His recent articles include: “The Salafi Critique of Islamism: Doctrine, Difference, and the Problem of Islamic Political Action in Contemporary Sudan” (in Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement, Columbia UP, 2009), “Evidence, Secrets, Truth: Towards a Sufi Theory of Knowledge”(under review for a special issue of the journal Islamic Africa from Brill Press), and “The Ruse of Law: Legal Equality and the Problem of Citizenship in a Multi-Religious Sudan” (in an edited volume under review with Stanford UP, entitled Law and Religion after Secular Liberalism). He is also currently working on a project which examines the flourishing of new genres of Islamic pop music in Sudan and hopes to expand the project to other relevant field sites.
E-mail: noah.salomon@yale.edu

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Simon Samoeil, Curator of the Near East Collection at Yale University Library and Project Manager for the OACIS project for the Middle East. (O nline A ccess to C onsolidated I nformation on S erials) is a union list of serials from or about the Middle East. The mission of OACIS is to improve access to Middle Eastern serials in libraries in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
E-mail: simon.samoeil@yale.edu
Homepage: www.library.yale.edu/neareast/

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Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Missions & World Christianity, came to the United States on a U.S. government scholarship to read history. After graduating he spent several years studying classical Arabic and Islam, including a stint in the Middle East, and working with the churches in Africa and with international organizations concerned with inter-religious issues. He received his Ph.D. in Islamic history at the University of London.
E-mail: lamin.sanneh@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/history/faculty/sanneh.html

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Yechiel Y. Schur, Hebrew Lector. Yechiel Y. Schur received his BA from Hebrew University in 2000, studying ancient history.  He completed his MA at The Jewish Theological Seminary in 2001 and is expecting to complete his PhD at New York University in December 2006.  He joined the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations as a Hebrew Lector in 2006.  His dissertation explores attitudes towards death and the treatment of bodies in medieval Jewish Europe.  Currently, he is working on a project entitled “Postmortem Circumcision, Baptism, and Jewish-Christian Polemics,” which examines the popularity and dissemination of the custom to circumcise infants after death.  His interests include the history of the Hebrew language, medieval Jewish history, the social history of death, and medieval commentaries to the Bible.  Schur currently teaches courses on medieval Hebrew texts, Modern Hebrew and contemporary Israeli culture.
E-mail: yechiel.schur@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/nelc/yschur.html

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Sallama Shaker, Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies, Middle East Studies and Political Science. Sallama Shaker was the first appointed woman Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Americas in the history of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Cultural, Educational Relations, Technical Cooperation, and Dialogue for Egypt in September of 2004. For four years prior to that, she was Egypt’s ambassador to Canada. She has held several positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Deputy Minister for North and Latin America, Advisor to the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on Egyptian/American Relations and NATO, First Secretary at the office of the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, and attaché at the Soviet Desk within the ministry. From 1985-1990, Dr. Shaker served as the Consul General at the Egyptian Embassy in Washington, D.C. She has also served as Economic and Political Counselor at the Embassy in Turkey, as well as Cultural and Political attaché at the Embassy of Egypt in Malta. Dr. Shaker began her education at the American College for Girls in Cairo, Egypt. She went on to earn her B.Sc. in Political Economy at Cairo University. She holds two Masters Degrees in Political Economy and Economics, from Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Economics/Malta University respectively. In 1993 she received her Ph.D. in International Development from American University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Shaker was a Senior Associate at the Woodrow Wilson Center from 1992-1994, where she did research on the impact of the first Gulf War on the economies of Egypt and Turkey. Dr. Shaker has published many articles on the issues of peace and development in the Middle East. Additional papers include “Building Peace in the Middle East,” “Feminization of Poverty,” “Women in Islam,” “Diversity in Islam,” and “Inter-faith Respect.” She has published a book entitled State Society and Privatization in Turkey, and is fluent in Arabic, English, French, Turkish and Maltese.
E-mail: sallama.shaker@yale.edu


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Neta Sharon Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Lector
E-mail: neta.sharon@yale.edu

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William K. Simpson was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1958. His interests embrace nearly every aspect of Egyptology, including history, literature, art, and archaeology. His numerous books include publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt, Giza mastabas, several volumes of papyri and other Egyptian writings. He is author of nearly 150 articles in the field of Egyptology and serves as editor of the Yale Egyptological Studies.
E-mail: william.simpson@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/nelc/wsimpson.html

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Kathryn Slanski teaches Mesopotamian and ancient Near Eastern literature, history, religion, law and justice, visual arts, and ancient languages. Prof. Slanski holds a joint appointment as Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and in Special Programs in the Humanities. She taught at Tel Aviv University, Fairfield University, and Harvard before joining the Yale faculty in 2004.
E-mail: kathryn.slanski@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/nelc/kslanski.html

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Nanette Stahl is responsible for giving focus and direction to the Judaica Collection, for locating rare and unusual items, and for assisting students, faculty, and visiting scholars. The goal of the Judaic Studies Program at the Yale Library is to provide the best support possible to faculty, students, and scholars who use our collections.
E-mail: nanette.stahl@yale.edu
Homepage: www.library.yale.edu/judaica/curator.html

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Edwige Tamalet, Assistant Professor of French. Edwige Tamalet holds a B.A. from the Sorbonne, an agrégation d’anglais, and a C. Phil. and Ph. D from the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include Francophone literature from North Africa, postcolonial theory, non-Western modernities, and transnational modernisms. Her current book project considers Maghrebi writing in various languages in a transnational Mediterranean context.
E-mail: edwige.tamalet@yale.edu

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Melike Ünal is currently a Turkish Lector in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department. After completion of her BA in English Langauge Teaching Department (ELT) at Cukurova University in 2001 with high honors, she was awarded with Fulbright Scholarship for the completion of her MA degree in General Linguistics at California State University Long Beach. Her MA thesis is titled as “The Effects of Acculturation on the Realization of Speech Acts by Native Turkish Speakers”. She currently has admissions to a Ph.D. program at Texas A&M University Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture. She will be doing a longitudinal study at EFL (English as a Foreign Language) and ESL (English as Secondary Language) contexts to investigate the acquisition of speech acts by native Turkish students.
E-mail: melike.unal@yale.edu

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Harvey Weiss, Professor of Anthropology, Near East Languages and Civilization, and Environmental Studies. Professor Weiss' research focuses primarily on Mesopotamia, early agriculture, cities and empires; Holocene paleoclimatology and environmental change. He has also benn the director of the Tell Leilan Project in Syria from1978 to the present.
E-mail: harvey.weiss@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/archaeology/faculty/f.harvey.weiss.html

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Robert R. Wilson, Hoober Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Old Testament. Professor Wilson's areas of academic interest include Israelite prophecy, the Deuteronomistic history, and ancient Israelite religion in its social and cultural context. He has been actively involved in the Society of Biblical Literature, serving as chair of the Social Roles of prophecy in Israel Group, and as the Old Testament editor of the Society of Biblical Literature dissertation series.
E-mail: robert.wilson@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/divinity/faculty/Fac.RWilson.shtml

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Jonathan Wyrtzen, (Ph.D. Georgetown, 2009) is a comparative-historical sociologist with teaching and research interests in North African society and politics. He works on the areas of state formation; colonialism and empire; ethnicity and nationalism; urban and rural contentious politics; and Islamic social movements. He is completing a book manuscript titled, Constructing Morocco: Colonial State-Building and the Struggle to Define the Nation (1912-1961), that examines the relationships among European imperial expansion, colonial policies of modernization and state formation, and the rise of Arabo-Islamic nationalism in North Africa in the mid-20th century. This study also explores the central roles of three marginal groups – Imazighen (Berbers), Jews, and women - in defining Moroccan identity during the mobilization of anti-colonial nationalism. He is beginning another project comparing tribal insurgency movements against the colonial state in the 1920s in North Africa and the Middle East.
E-mail: jonathan.wyrtzen@yale.edu
Homepage: www.yale.edu/sociology/faculty/pages/wyrtzen/

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