Program Faculty

Middle Eastern Studies Co-Directors

Kenneth Garden

Associate Professor and Department Chair of Religion

Life and Thought of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Religious Thought of al-Andalus and the Maghrib, Sufism, Contemporary Muslim religious discourse, especially in Egypt,

ken.garden@tufts.edu

Souhad Zendah

Senior Lecturer

Arabic pedagogy and curriculum design, Language and Literacy acquisition K-12, and Arabic modern literature

souhad.zendah@tufts.edu

Middle Eastern Studies Faculty

Rana Abdul-Aziz, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies
Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe, Department of History
Amahl Bishara, Department of Anthropology
Yonatan Brafman, Department of Religion
Jennifer Eyl, Department of Religion
Leila Fawaz, Department of History
Hedda Harari-Spencer, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies
Steven W. Hirsch, Department of Classical Studies
R. Bruce Hitchner, Department of Classical Studies
Fadi Jajji, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies
Ayesha Jalal, Department of History
Rich Jankowsky, Department of Music
Nimah Mazaheri, Department of Political Science
Malik Mufti, Department of Political Science
David Proctor, Department of History
Kamran Rastegar, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies
Joel Rosenberg, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies
Miriam Said, Department of History of Art and Architecture
Enrico Spolaore, Department of Economics
Riccardo Strobino, Department of Classical Studies