Aya Khalaf was a Lecturer of Arabic at the TAFL Center for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, Alexandria University, from 2016 to 2024. She also worked as a lecturer of Arabic for non-native speakers in the summer program ARANAS at Al Akhawayn...
Derek Penslar was educated at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at Indiana University between 1987 and 1998, when he moved to the University of Toronto. Between 2012 and 2016 Penslar taught at Oxford University...
L. M. Bondioli's work investigates the political economy of medieval Islamic empires, aiming to lay bare the antagonistic symbiosis between the merchant and ruling classes, and the ever-embattled entanglement of subaltern and elite groups. His research...
Christina Maranci grew up in a diasporan Armenian family in Westport, Connecticut. She earned a BA in art history at Vassar, and an MA and PhD at Princeton in the Department of Art and Archaeology. Her work explores the art and culture of Armenia in all...
Dana Malhas, preceptor in Arabic language, and an ACTFL certified tester and rater for Arabic Language. I teach MSA, Classical Arabic and Amiya, Jordanian colloquial from elementary to advanced level, and help students master their Arabic language...
At NELC, I teach courses in Arabic and direct the Modern Language Programs, where I work with colleagues teaching Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Persian, modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, and Yiddish.
I was educated in New York, both upstate and downstate, as...
Mohsen Goudarzi joined the Harvard Divinity School faculty in July 2021, having taught previously at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). He is a scholar of religion who studies the Qur’an and early Islamic history using a variety of analytical...
Amr holds a PhD in medieval literary criticism and has been committed to teaching Arabic as a second language since 2009. He has taught Arabic language and culture at institutions such as the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan-Ann...
Muhammad Habib was born in Egypt; he was an Assistant Teaching Professor of Arabic at Georgetown University and previously taught at Duke University. He received his MA and PhD in Arabic language and linguistics from Al-Azhar University in Egypt. His...
On leave for the 2025-26 academic year
Professor Lienau’s core research uses the legacy of the Arabic language as a lens for comparative studies of post-colonial literature, offering an alternative approach to the often binary (colonial/post-colonial)...