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Scott C. Lucas
Marshall Bldg. 446
845 N. Park Ave.
PO Box 210158B
Tucson, AZ 85721-0158
Tel: (520) 626-9562
Email: sclucas@email.arizona.edu
Department Directory
Danielle Adams holds an MA in Anthropology from the University of Arkansas (2000), and she has spent three years living in Beirut, Lebanon, where she focused her studies on classical Arabic poetry. She is currently preparing to embark on her dissertation field research in North Africa. Danielle's research interests lie in the anthropology of science, particularly cultural astronomy; indigenous...
Kian Alavy is a Master’s student in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona. He completed his undergraduate degree in History with an emphasis on the Middle East at the University of Minnesota, where he wrote his senior thesis, A Venetian View of the Ottoman-Safavid Conflict: The Case of Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi. Kian’s primary research interests are Ottoman-...
PhD Candidate, Islamic Law
Samy Ayoub is a PhD candidate in Islamic law in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. Mr. Ayoub studied human rights, international law, gender and law, comparative law, and statutory interpretation at James E. Rogers College of law. Mr. Ayoub earned his MSc degree in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinbugh in 2009. Mr. Ayoub...