Faculty
Core Faculty
Farid Abdel-Nour, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair, Political Science
Phone: (619) 594-6244
Email: [email protected]
Office: NH 110
Areas of Specialization: Modern and Contemporary Political Thought and Israeli-Palestinian relations
Mounah Abdel Samad, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Public Administration
Email: [email protected]
Office: PSFA 157
Areas of Specialization: Comparative Public Administration, legislators, water scarcity, and Administrative Theory
Hisham Foad, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Advisor, CIAS and Associate Professor, Economics
Phone: (619) 594-8495
Email: [email protected]
Office: NH 311
Areas of Specialization: International finance; the economics of currency unions; economic integration and foreign investment in the Middle East and North Africa
Roberto D. Hernández, Ph.D.
Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL 388
Areas of Specialization: Comparative border studies, decolonial theory, social movements
Amira Jarmakani, Ph.D.
Professor, Women's Studies
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL 311
Areas of Specialization: Arab American Studies; orientalist representations in the Americas; Arab feminisms; gender, war, and militarism and the Middle East
Ranin Kazemi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, History
Email: [email protected]
Office: AL 515
Areas of Specialization: social, environmental, and economic history of the Middle East and North Africa
Ahmet T. Kuru, Ph.D.
Director, CIAS and Professor, Political Science
Email: [email protected]
Office: NH 125
Areas of Specialization: Secularism and state-religion relations; Islam and politics; authoritarianism in the Muslim world
Dris Soulaimani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
Email: [email protected]
Office: SHW 220
Areas of Specialization: Discourse analysis, language ideologies, and language pedagogy
Associated Faculty
Anne Donadey, Ph.D.
Professor, European Studies
Phone: (619) 594-0815
Email: [email protected]
Office: SH 224E
Youniss el Cheddadi
Lecturer, Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
Phone: (619) 594-8800
Email: [email protected]
Office: SHW 203
Ghassan Zakaria
Lecturer, Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
Phone: (619) 594-8801
Email: [email protected]
Office: SHW 222
Faculty Emeriti
Ross E. Dunn, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, History
Email: [email protected]
Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, Women's Studies
Email: [email protected]
Ghada Osman, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
Email: [email protected]
In Memoriam
Khaleel Mohammed, Ph.D. (1955-2022)
Former CIAS Director and Professor, Study of Religion
Donate to Professor Khaleel Mohammed Scholarship (for students pursuing a degree in the Study of Religion OR Islamic and Arabic Studies)