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Middle Eastern Studies—Chairs and Directors

Chair of the Standing Committee on Middle Eastern Studies: William Granara

Faculty of the Standing Committee on Middle Eastern Studies

Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs
Gareth Doherty, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture (School of Design)
Khaled El-Rouayheb, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History
Kristin Fabbe, Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Luis Girón Negrón, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature
William Granara, Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment
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)
Tarek Masoud, Professor of Public Policy and The Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations (Kennedy School)
Gülru Necipoğlu-Kafadar, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art
Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History
Intisar Rabb, Professor of History (FAS) and Professor of Law (Law School)
Kristen Stilt, The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Professor of Islamic Legal Studies (Law School) (on leave fall term)
Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life

Additional Information

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