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School of Middle Eastern
& North African Studies
Marshall Bldg. 440
845 N. Park Ave.
PO Box 210158B
Tucson, AZ 85721-0158
Tel: (520) 621-8013
Fax: (520) 621-2333
sbs-neareast@email.arizona.edu
Director
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
Associate Professor, Arabic Language & Linguistics, Director of Graduate Studies
520-621-8629
Marshall 450
Education
M.P.A., School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona (2012, Projected)
M.A., Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona (2011)
Thesis: "Neoliberalism, Creative Destruction and the Economic Reconstruction of Iraq, 2003-2010"
B.A., Journalism and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008)
Selected Publications
Drone Warfare: Blowback from the New...
Professor, Arabic Language & Literature
520-621-5465
Marshall 448
Before joining the University of Arizona in 1975 Gamal taught at the American University in Cairo and at UC, Berkeley. He served as the Acting Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1981-82. He served as the Graduate Adviser of the Middle East section under the Department of Oriental Studies from, 1985-1990 and the Graduate Adviser of the Department of NES from 1990-2000.
In...
Deniz Gedizlioğlu, currently an MA Student at the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies in University of Arizona, has received her B.A. degree in Psychology from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. Following her graduation, Deniz has worked in fields of film and media as a professional. Having also published a number of essays on this particular in Turkey, she is now continuing...
Social Sciences Room 335
Please follow this link to the School of Government and Public Policy: http://sgpp.arizona.edu/fghosn
Hi! My name is Gulsum Gurbuz-Kucuksari. I have been in the States for about 8 years now. I came here for educational reasons and completed my Masters on Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in CT. I then got married and came to Arizona and later started at the UofA’s PhD program in Near Eastern Studies.
I am interested in Ottoman history in general but my current...
Lyle Hamblin, pursuing MA, Middle Eastern History
I was born in Tucson, and raised in Gilbert (near Phoenix). I am married, and we just had a son this last semester (Spring 2011). My wife is in the Hispanic Linguistics MA program here. We enjoy the outdoors, visiting family, and playing with our son. We are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (“Mormons”), and attend a...
Ilker Hepkaner, after attending Augusta State University and Sciences-po de Paris as an exchange student, graduated from Galatasaray University, Istanbul, Turkey with a bachelor’s degree in International Relations. He joined Near Eastern Studies Department in 2010. He is currently working on Turkish Cinema’s metamorphosis after 1980 Coup d’état beside his efforts in translating some literary...
Associate Professor, Modern Middle East Culture and Political Economy, Associate Director
Marshall 447
Office Hours: Friday morning by appointment
Degrees:
PhD University of Michigan, Anthropology and History
MA University of Michigan, Anthropology
BA Yale University
Research Interests:
Syria, Iraq, late Ottoman Arab provinces, conflict dynamics, political history, media
Courses Taughts:
Middle Eastern Humanities
Islamic Civilization: Classical and Modern Middle East
Histories of Muslim...
Dina Jadallah is an Arab-American writer and artist. She is a Ph.D. student whose research focuses on the political, social, economic, and cultural inter-relationships between Middle Eastern states and their societies. She specifically explores changes to state sovereignty and how these relate to resistance and the search for agency by people. She attended Georgetown University for...
Farrah Jafari is a PhD student. She teaches intermediate Persian at the University of Arizona. Research interests include youth culture and reform in Iran, feminism and Islam, and Iranian state formation, human rights and transnational movements, and migration studies. Her ethnographic research focuses on Iranian LGBT refugee seeking asylum in Turkey based on sexual orientation.This research is...
Professor of Linguistics
(520) 621-5399
Communication 106
Please follow this link to the Linguistics department: http://linguistics.arizona.edu/user/144
Assistant Professor, College of Public Health, School of MENAS
Loulou Kobeissi, DrPH MPH is an Assistant Professor co-jointly in the Epidemiology & Biostatistics Division in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health as well as the School of Middle East and North African Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Prior to joining the faculty, Dr. Kobeissi was a visiting scholar at the Fielding’s School of Public Health-Department of...
Hikmet Kocamaner came to the University of Arizona in 2005 on Fulbright’s Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship fellowship to teach Turkish. He decided to stay in Arizona and pursue a Ph.D degree in Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS). He is among the first group of students to be admitted into the University of Arizona’s dual Ph.D program in MENAS and Anthropology. In the summer...
Professor of Religious Studies
520-621-0017
520-621-1809
Harvill 347C
Please follow this link to the Religious Studies department: http://religious.arizona.edu/fac_kunnie.html
Julian Kunnie is Professor of Religious Studies/Classics at the University of Arizona. He is the author of three books (listed below) and his forthcoming book is Globalization and Its Victims: Wars Against the Earth and the Impoverished of the World. In addition, he has produced two...
Director & Associate Professor, Islamic Studies
520-626-9562
Marshall 446
Dr. Lucas started learning Arabic during his freshman year of college, which led to two fruitful periods of study in San'a', Yemen, and ultimately graduate school. His research explores the creative process by which individual Muslim scholars composed works in the genres of law, hadith, and Qur’anic commentary during the classical period of Islamic civilization. He is currently completing an...
Charles Mink is a former Army interrogator and current MA candidate. He is the Program Coordinator for UA's "Project GO." His research includes U.S. counterterrorism policy in the Mid East during the 21st Century. His thesis covers extraordinary rendition & intelligence sharing between the U.S. and many (now defunct) regimes.
Languages: English and Arabic (advanced proficiency).
Lecturer, Middle Eastern History, Islamic Thought
520-626-9140
621-2333
445
Following the completion of a doctorate in Persian Language and Literature at the University of Tehran, Maryam Moazzen obtained another PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations from the University of Toronto. In 2011, she defended her doctoral dissertation on “Shi‘ite Higher Learning and the Role of the Madrasa-yi Sultani in Late Safavid Iran.” As an interdisciplinary scholar, her area of...