People
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Ann Macy Roth
Email: ann.macy.roth@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Ancient Egyptian society and religion, particularly in the early periods; gender, royalty, wealth, and rank as expressed in architecture and art; archaeology of cemeteries
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Sinan Antoon
Email: sa234@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Arabo-Islamic culture; classical and modern Arabic poetry; the modern Arabic novel; the Arabic prose-poem; Iraqi politics
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Asli Igsiz
Research/Interest: Nineteenth and twentieth-century literary cultures and cultural representation in the Ottoman State, Turkey, Greece, and France; cultural history and memory; minority cultures, cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism; governmentality; forced migration; comparative methodologies; multidisciplinary epistemologies.
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Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Email: zbd1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: 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
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Benoit Challand
Email: benoit.challand@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Political sociology, Arab politics, religion and identity, and social theory
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Yogesh Chandrani
Research/Interest: Colonialism and postcolonial theory, religion and secularism, anthropology of violence, politics of human rights, social and political theory
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David Engel
Email: david.engel@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Modern Jewish political history; History of the Jews in Eastern Europe; the Holocaust
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Tamer el-Leithy
Email: tamer.elleithy@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Social and Cultural History of the Medieval Middle East and Mediterranean;
History of Religious Difference, esp. Conversion, Martyrdom, and Communal Violence; Coptic history;
Family History; Islamic Law and Society; Arabic and Judeo-Arabic/Geniza Documents; Medieval Archives.
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Elliot R. Wolfson
Email: erw1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Jewish mysticism and philosophy; gender construction and the history of religion; symbolism and myth; philosophical hermeneutics and the phenomenology of religious experience
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Sibel Erol
Email: sibel.erol@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Turkish Language; role of writing in teaching language; the uses of literature in language teaching; the novel; nationalism; women authors; postmodernism; masculinities; film
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Yael S. Feldman
Email: yf1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Hebrew and Comparative Literature and History of Ideas, Bible to Modern; literary theory; gender and cultural studies; psychoanalytic criticism; secularism and nationalism
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Ahmed Ferhadi
Email: af3@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Second Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Language Testing and pedagogical applications of technology.
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Daniel E. Fleming
Email: df2@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Assyriology; Hebrew Bible interpretation and cultural history; ancient Syria; Emar; ancient religion; interplay of ancient Near Eastern societies
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Michael Gilsenan
Email: michael.gilsenan@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Anthropology and sociology of Islam; history and anthropology, narrative theory; anthropology of power and violence; urban studies; cultural representation.
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Bruce Grant
Email: bruce.grant@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Former Soviet Union, Siberia, the Caucasus; cultural history and politics; religion.
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Hala Halim
Email: hh47@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: modern Arabic, English and Anglophone literatures; postcolonial theory and alternative modernities; autobiography, autoethnography, and travel writing; theory and practice of translation; cosmopolitanism, globalization, gender, and the city.
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Gabriela Nik. Ilieva
Email: gni1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: gender and pragmatics in Hindi and Sanskrit, Medieval Indian poetics, historical Indo-Aryan linguistics, foreign language pedagogy
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Marion Holmes Katz
Email: marion.katz@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: My research interests revolve primarily around issues of Islamic law (shari'a), gender, and ritual.
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Philip F. Kennedy
Email: philip.kennedy@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Medieval Arabic language and literature; classical poetry and poetics; adab; narrative and fiction; recognition/anagnorisis in literature; Qur'an and Tafsir
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Arang Keshavarzian
Email: arang.keshavarzian@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Comparative politics and political economy; Middle East politics; modern Iran
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Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami
Email: mmk4@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Computer-based language training; modern Persian literature
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M. Ishaq Nadiri
Email: m.ishaq.nadiri@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Economics of technology, productivity and economic growth, investment theory and modeling.
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Irshad Manji
Email: irshad.manji@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Reform in Islam, Islam in America, Islamic feminism
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Maya Mikdashi
Email: mm4247@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Sociocultural anthropology, legal anthropology, citizenship studies, nationalism, video culture, secularism, gender studies, human rights studies and industries, liberalism and neoliberalism, refugee studies, Levant, Lebanon, Israel-Lebanon.
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Ali Mirsepassi
Research/Interest: Islam, democracy and modernity; Iranian history, politics and culture
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David O'Connor
Research/Interest: Ancient Egyptian art history and archaeology; Ancient Nubia art history and archaeology.
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Wazhmah Osman
Research/Interest: Visual Culture and Film, Afghanistan, Media and The War on Terror, Afghan Media, Afghan Women's Rights, Gender and Sexuality, Religion, Ethnicity and identity.
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Leslie Peirce
Email: lp50@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: early modern Ottoman history, gender, law & society, comparative empires
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Nathalie Peutz
Email: npeutz@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Cultural anthropology; states, citizenship, and migration; globalization; conservation and development; heritage; protected areas; Middle East; Yemen, Somalia
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Intisar A. Rabb
Research/Interest: Islamic law: law and society, legal history, legal theory; Islamic and comparative constitutionalism; History of the Qur'anic text
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Ronald W. Zweig
Email: rz11@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: History of British mandate, state of Israel and modern Jewish history
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Everett K. Rowson
Research/Interest: Medieval Islamic literature; law; theology; gender and society.
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Ella Shohat
Email: es100@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: 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.
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Mark S. Smith
Email: mss11@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Bible; Israelite religion and culture; Ugaritic literature and religion; Hebrew grammar; Dead Sea Scrolls
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Justin Stearns
Research/Interest: Pre-modern history of the Middle East, Religion and Science in the Middle East
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Helga Tawil-Souri
Email: helga@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Middle East and Arab media, contemporary Palestinian culture and politics, ethnographic film-making
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Nader K. Uthman
Email: nader@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Arabic Language, Literature & Culture; Comparative Literature; Poetics of Exile and Displacement; Arabic Pedagogy; Translation
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Rita P. Wright
Email: rita.wright@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Urbanism; state formation; gender relations; the ancient Near East, and South Asia.
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Edward Ziter
Email: ted.ziter@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: 19th-century British theatre and popular entertainment, Romantic drama, the history of acting, Arab theatre