Adi Mahalel teaches Yiddish Studies. He earned his PhD from Columbia University and is the author of The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism (SUNY Press) and the translation and scholarly introduction of Hanan Ayalti’s Boom and...
Mazalit Haim is a scholar of modern Hebrew literature and Israeli culture. Her research explores the politics of hope and despair in modern Jewish and Israeli literature, visual art, museums, and public culture. Drawing on affect theory, psychoanalysis...
Nalan Erbil’s research focuses on nineteenth-century Ottoman and modern Turkish literature, migration, and Turkish language pedagogy. Her current project theorizes an Ottoman and Turkish literary critical-ethical method implicit in the concept and...
Jesse S. Arlen is Lecturer in Armenian Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of many articles and book chapters relating to medieval religious literature and intellectual history, with particular attention to asceticism and mysticism. He is the...
Abdul Manan Bhat is a scholar of Islam, devotional literature, and material religion, specializing in Islamic discourses on poetry with a focus on the Persianate world. Urdu and Persian literature is at the heart of his teaching and research interests. At...
As a linguist and scholar of Persian language and literature, my work bridges the fields of language teaching and the politics of literary translation. With graduate training from Allameh Tabataba'i, and over a decade of teaching experience at Yale...
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...
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...
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...