Mohammed Abu-Nimer
Professor
SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations
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…
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abunimer@american.edu
Boaz Atzili
Professor
SIS | Foreign Policy & Global Security
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…
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atzili@american.edu
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(202) 885-1648
Naima Hachad
Associate Professor
CAS | World Languages and Cultures
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…
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hachad@american.edu
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(202) 885-1458
Anders Hardig
Senior Professorial Lecturer
SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
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…
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hardig@american.edu
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(202) 885-1541
Shadi Mokhtari
Assistant Professor
SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations
Shadi Mokhtari teaches at the School of International Service at èßäÉçÇøapp University in Washington D.C., where she focuses on the politics of human rights, political change in the Middle East, and pol…
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mokhtari@american.edu
Erez Naaman
Associate Professor
CAS | World Languages and Cultures
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 …
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naaman@american.edu
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(202) 885-2468
Ghiyath Nakshbendi
Senior Professorial Lecturer
KSB | Finance/Real Estate
Professor Nakshbendi teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Alternative (Islamic) Finance, Microfinance & Financial Inclusion, Trade and Project Finance, Export-Import Management, International…
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nakshben@american.edu
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(202) 885-3268
Mohamed Nimer
Assistant Professor
SPA | Finance & Personnel Administration
Dr. Nimer teaches International Affairs and Intercultural Understanding at the AU Global and Immersive Studies unit. He is author of The North èßäÉçÇøapp Muslim Resource Guide: Muslim Community Life in …
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nimer@american.edu
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(202) 895-4921
Pedram Partovi
Associate Professor
CAS | History
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…
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partovi@american.edu
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(202) 885-6740
Kendra Salois
Assistant Professor
CAS | Performing Arts
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 AU, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the …
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salois@american.edu
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(202) 885-3431
Cathy Lisa Schneider
Professor Emerita
Professor Schneider teaches and writes on democracy, dictatorship and resistance; comparative social movements; collective violence; racial profiling, police violence and racial and ethnic discriminat…
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cschnei@american.edu
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(202) 885-1666
Diane Singerman
Associate Prof Emeritus
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…
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(202) 885-2362
Elizabeth Thompson
Professor and Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace, SIS
SIS | Global Inquiry
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…
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eft@american.edu
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(202) 885-1632
John Willoughby
Professor
CAS | Economics
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 èßäÉçÇøapp University of Sharjah. He…
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jwillou@american.edu
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(202) 885-3759