Irene Calis is a decolonial scholar, educator, and organizer. Her research focuses on emancipatory politics from the perspective of those living their struggle. Through a comparative frame of analysis…
Dr. Elsana is an adjunct professor at the 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß. Prior, he served as a professor of Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, and International Humanitarian Law. Dr. Elsa…
Mustafa Gurbuz is a political sociologist whose research focuses on race/ethnic relations and social movements. His publications appeared in Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Forum, Middle East Criti…
Abdallah Hendawy, Ph.D., specializes in the study of mass mobilization and social movements with a particular focus on radicalization and violent insurgency in the Middle East. He has been actively en…
Judd King currently teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and is affiliated with the Arab World Studies Program. His primary research interests are modern Islamic political movements, g…
Martyn was born and raised in southern Minnesota. In addition to Washington State and Boston, his studies also took him to Scotland, Lebanon, Austria, and Morocco. His work explores the construction o…
Elke Stockreiter is a historian of modern Africa. Her research and teaching interests include the histories of colonialism, gender, race, and slavery in Africa and the Indian Ocean World. Trained as a…
Mohammed Abu-Nimer, of the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program, is a full professor who has conducted interreligious conflict resolution training and interfaith dialogue workshops in c…
Dr. Boaz Atzili is a political scientist who researches and teaches international politics. His interest is in international security with an emphasis on the politics of borders, borderlands and terri…
Dr. Hachad’s research focuses on issues of gender and sexuality, autobiography and testimony, and the representation and memorialization of violence in cultural productions of the Maghreb and the Cari…
Dr. Anders Härdig is Director of the Global Scholars Program at SIS and Senior Professorial Lecturer in the Comparative Politics and Regional Studies (CRS) program at the School of International Servi…
Shadi Mokhtari teaches at the School of International Service at 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß in Washington D.C., where she focuses on the politics of human rights, political change in the Middle East, and pol…
Erez Naaman specializes in classical Arabic literature and culture. In addition, his research interests include the intellectual history of the premodern Islamic world. His scholarly work has focused …
Professor Nakshbendi teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Alternative (Islamic) Finance, Microfinance & Financial Inclusion, Trade and Project Finance, Export-Import Management, International…
Dr. Nimer teaches International Affairs and Intercultural Understanding at the 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß Global and Immersive Studies unit. He is author of The North American Muslim Resource Guide: Muslim Community Life in …
Pedram Partovi is a historian of the medieval and modern Muslim world. His current research focuses on the history of youth movements and their role in creating and disrupting the political order in I…
Kendra Salois received the Ph.D. in Music from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2013. Prior to joining the Department of Performing Arts at 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the …
Professor Schneider teaches and writes on democracy, dictatorship and resistance; comparative social movements; collective violence; racial profiling, police violence and racial and ethnic discriminat…
Dr. Singerman is an Associate Professor and comparativist whose research interests focus on political change from below, particularly in the Middle East, and more specifically Egypt. Her work examines…
Elizabeth F. Thompson is a historian of social movements and liberal constitutionalism in the Middle East, with a focus on how race and gender relations have been conditioned by foreign intervention a…
Professor Willoughby has recently returned from a two-year stay in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates where he helped create an undergraduate economics program at the new 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß of Sharjah. He…