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Middle Eastern Studies—Chairs and Directors

Chair of the Standing Committee on Middle Eastern Studies: Cemal Kafadar

Faculty of the Standing Committee on Middle Eastern Studies

Leila N. Ahmed, Victor S Thomas Professor of Divinity (Divinity School)
Melani C. Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs
Steven C. Caton, Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies
Gareth G. Doherty, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture (School of Design)
Khaled El-Rouayheb, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History
Luis Girón Negrón, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature
Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies
Ousmane Kane, Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS) and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society (Divinity School) (on leave spring term)
Mary D. Lewis, Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History
Gülru Necipoğlu-Kafadar, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art
Intisar Rabb, Professor of History
Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy (Kennedy School)
Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life

Additional Information

For additional information, please visit https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/about