MESAS FACULTY


 

Nadine Berardi , Lecturer in Sanskrit

M.Phil. in Sanskrit language, literature and poetics. Columbia University.

Sanskrit Language Coordinator

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Oded Borowski, Professor of Hebrew and Biblical Archaeology

Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dissertation: Agriculture in Iron Age Israel.

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Billie Jean Collins, Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (Hittitology). Yale University. Dissertation: The Representation of Wild Animals in Hittite Texts.
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Rkia Cornell, Senior Lecturer in Arabic

Diploma of Pedagogical Aptitude, Regional Normal School, Meknès, Morocco; Diploma for Baccalaureate, Regional Normal School, Meknès, Morocco; Doctoral Candidate, Free University of Amsterdam
 
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Vincent Cornell, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies

Ph.D. in Islamic Studies. University of California, Los Angeles. Dissertation: Mirrors of Prophethood: The Evolving Image of the Spiritual Master in the Western Maghrib from the Origins of Sufism to the End of the Sixteenth Century.

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Shalom Goldman, Professor of Hebrew and Middle Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in Hebrew and Biblical Studies. New York University.

 

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Robert Greeley, Lecturer in Arabic

M.A. in Near Eastern Studies (Arabic Literature). University of California, Berkeley.
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Benjamin Hary, Associate Professor of Hebrew, Arabic and Linguistics

Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies. University of California, Berkeley. Dissertation: Judeo-Arabic, Written and Spoken in Egypt in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

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Rina Kreitman, Lecturer in Hebrew

Ph.D. in Linguistics. Cornell University. Dissertation: The Phonetics and Phonology of Voicing in Obstruent Clusters: Case Study Modern Hebrew.

Hebrew Language Coordinator

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Ruby Lal, Associate Professor of South Asian Studies

D.Phil in Modern History. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Dissertation: The ‘Domestic World’ of the Mughals in the reigns of Babur, Humayun and Akbar, c.1500-1605 A. D.
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Roxani Eleni Margariti, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies. Princeton University. Dissertation: Like the Place of Congregation on Judgment Day: Maritime Trade and Urban Organization in Medieval Aden, ca. 1080-1229.

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Gordon D. Newby, Professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies

Ph.D. in Mediterranean Studies. Brandeis University.

Chair

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Rakesh Ranjan, Senior Lecturer in Hindi

Ph.D. in Linguistics (Sociolinguistics and Historical Linguistics). University of Delhi, Delhi, India. Dissertation: Some Morphological and Syntactic Features of Mauritian Bhojpuri.

Hindi Language Coordinator

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Hossein Samei, Lecturer in Persian

Ph.D. in Linguistics. Tehran University, Tehran, Iran. Dissertation: Word Formation in Persian: A Theoretical Framework.

Persian Language Coordinator

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Rima Semaan, Lecturer in Arabic

M.A. in Arabic Literature. American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

Arabic Language Coordinator

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Devin Stewart, Associate Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies. University of Pennsylvania. Dissertation: Twelver Shıfiism and Its Struggle with Sunni Consensus.

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Manojbala Tiwari, Lecturer in Hindi

M.Phil. in Hindi. University of Bombay, Bombay, India.
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Ofra Yeglin, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture

Ph.D. in Hebrew Literature. Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Dissertation: Modern Classicism and Classical Modernism in Lea Goldberg's Poetry.

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