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MESAS FACULTY
| Nadine Berardi , Lecturer in Sanskrit |

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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 |

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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 |

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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 |

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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 |

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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 |

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Ph.D. in Hebrew and Biblical Studies. New York University.
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| Robert Greeley, Lecturer in Arabic |

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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 |

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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 |
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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 |

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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 |

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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 |

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Ph.D. in Mediterranean Studies. Brandeis University.
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| Rakesh Ranjan, Senior Lecturer in Hindi |

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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 |

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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 |

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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 |

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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 |

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