Mahmoud Ali

Assistant Professor of Practice

Assistant Academic Director, Arabic Flagship & Project Global Officer

Mahmoud Azaz

Director of Graduate Studies, MENAS

University of Arizona Distinguished Fellow

Associate Professor, Arabic Language, Linguistics, & Pedagogy

• Arab world
• Second language acquisition and pedagogy
• Sociolinguistics

Carolyn Barnett

Assistant Professor

Anne Betteridge

Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Professor, Iranian Women & Culture

• Iran and the Persianate World
• Anthropology
• Gender Studies

Julia Clancy-Smith

Regent's Professor

• North Africa and the Mediterranean
• Modern and world history
• Imperialism and colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa

Samira Farwaneh

Arabic Language Coordinator, MENAS

Associate Professor, Arabic Language & Linguistics

• Arab world
• Phonology and morphology
• Sociolinguistics

Benjamin Fortna

Director, School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies

Professor, History of Modern Middle East & Ottoman Empire

• The Ottoman Empire and Turkey
• Modern history
• Biography and education

Laura Frances Goffman

Assistant Professor, Health Studies of the Middle East & North Africa

• History of health disease and medicine
• Modern Arab world
• Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf

Leila Hudson

Associate Professor, Modern Middle East Culture & Political Economy

Scott Lucas

Director of Undergraduate Studies, MENAS

Associate Professor, Islamic Studies

• Arab world
• Islamic thought
• Zaydi Islam in Yemen

Maha Nassar

Associate Professor, Modern Middle East History, Islamic Studies

• Modern Arab world
• Cultural and intellectual history
• Palestinian identity formation and transnational discourses

Narges Nematollahi

Assistant Professor of Practice, Persian Language

• Ancient and early medieval Iran
• Historical and socio-linguistics
• Stylistics

Yaseen Noorani

Associate Professor, Arabic and Persian Language & Literature

Austin O'Malley

Assistant Professor, Persian and Iranian Studies

• Persianate world
• Literature
• Sufism

Ahmet Okal

Assistant Professor of Practice, Turkish Language

Sonia Shiri

Director, Arabic Special Programs

Professor, Arabic

Kamran Talattof

Chair, Roshan GIDP in Persian and Iranian Studies

Professor, Persian and Iranian Studies

• Iran and the Persian world
• Persian literature and Iranian culture and cinema
• Gender and ideology