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Directory

Nayel Badareen
Lecturer

Nayel Badareen
Lecturer

Abdessalem Choura
Instructor

Abdessamad M’Barki
Instructor
Students
Arabic Program Director

Sonia Shiri
Associate Professor, Middle East Language Programs Director
Director, Arabic Flagship Program
Director, Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA)
Arabic Faculty

Mahmoud Azaz
Associate Professor, Arabic Language, Linguistics, & Pedagogy
University of Arizona Distinguished Fellow

Samira Farwaneh
Associate Professor, Arabic Language & Linguistics

Persian Faculty


Narges Nematollahi
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Assistant Professor, Persian Language


Austin O'Malley
Roshan Institute Assistant Professor in Persian and Iranian Studies

Kamran Talattof
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Chair, Persian and Iranian Studies
Turkish Faculty
Undergraduate Advisor
Graduate Advisor

Departmental Faculty

Mahmoud Azaz
Associate Professor, Arabic Language, Linguistics, & Pedagogy
University of Arizona Distinguished Fellow


Samira Farwaneh
Associate Professor, Arabic Language & Linguistics

Benjamin Fortna
Director & Professor, History of Modern Middle East & Ottoman Empire

Laura Frances Goffman
Assistant Professor of Health Studies of the Middle East and North Africa

Leila Hudson
Associate Professor, Modern Middle East Culture & Political Economy


Maha Nassar
Associate Professor, Modern Middle East History, Islamic Studies

Narges Nematollahi
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Assistant Professor, Persian Language


Austin O'Malley
Roshan Institute Assistant Professor in Persian and Iranian Studies

Sonia Shiri
Associate Professor, Middle East Language Programs Director
Director, Arabic Flagship Program
Director, Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA)

Kamran Talattof
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Chair, Persian and Iranian Studies
Affiliate Faculty

Olga Bever
Associate Research Professor, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Beth Alpert Nakhai
Associate Professor, Arizona Center for Judaic Studies