Name: ALLEN, ROGER, Professor; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Education: B.A., Oxford University (1965); M.A., Oxford University (1968); Ph.D., Oxford University (1968).
Languages: Arabic, French, Persian, Latin.
Courses: Arabic Literary Tradition; Narrative Across Cultures; Journeys in Arabic Narrative; Arabic Literature and Literary Theory.
Overseas Research Experience: Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, France.
Recent Publications: "Perspectives on Arabic Teaching and Learning." Modern Language Journal 88 (2004). "Translation and Culture: Theory and Practice." Journal of Social Affairs 21 (Fall 2004). "Literary History and the Arabic Novel." World Literature Today 75, 2002; The Arabic Literary Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998; "Autobiography and Memory: Mahfuz's Asda' al-sirah al-dhatiyaah." in Writing the Self: Autobiographical Writing in Modern Arabic Literature, edited by Robin Ostle, Ed deMoor and Stephan Wild. London: Saqi Books, 1998; The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction. 2nd ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Friars Senior Honors Society, University of Pennsylvania: Faculty Award 2005; American Institute of Maghribi Studies, grant awardee, 1999-2000; University Rector's Distinguished Lecturer and Award of University Medal, University of Helsinki (1994); National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar (4 awards, 1992-1998); American Council of Learned Societies grant (1983). President of MESA, 2008-2009.
Research Interests: Arabic literature; narrative and drama; theoretical aspects of literary history.

Name: ASSEFI-SHIRAZI, TAJMAH, Lecturer; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Education: B.A., Tehran University (1959); M.A., National University of Tehran (1976); Ph.D., Tehran University (1990).
Languages: Persian, French, Arabic.
Courses: Elementary Persian; Intermediate Persian; Persian Reading and Writing; Sufi Poets.
Language Pedagogy Training: Department Head for Persian Language and Literature, Iranian Ministry of Education (1980-1985); Instructor in Persian Language and Literature, Iranian Ministry of Education (1959-1985).
Overseas Research Experience: Iran.
Recent Publications: Aseman va Khak: Theology in Persian Poetry. Tehran: University Press (1997); "Khaghani: His Life and Time." The Council for the Promotion of Persian Language and Literature in North America. Gulistan Quarterly 1:3 (1997); "Theology in the Poetry of Attar." The Council for the Promotion of Persian Language and Literature in North America. Gulistan Quarterly 1:1 (1997); "Theological Interpretations in the Poetry of Nasser e-Khosrow." In Name ye Shahidi. Tehran: Tarh e-Now (1995).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Founding member in charge of the selection of materials and texts, Council for the Promotion of Persian Language and Literature in North America (1996-present).
Research Interests: Theology and Poetry; Persian Language and Literature; Literary Studies.

Name: BEN-AMOS, DAN, Professor; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Folklore and Folklife
Education: B.A. Hebrew University (1961); M.A. and Ph.D., Indiana University (1964, 1967).
Languages: Hebrew, French, German.
Courses: Jewish Folklore; Ethnic Humor; History of Folklore Studies; Israeli Folk Literature.
Overseas Research Experience: Israel, Nigeria.
Recent Publications: "On Demons," in Creation and Re-Creation in Jewish Thought: Festschrift in Honor of Joseph Dan, eds. Rachel Elior and Peter Schafer. Tubingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2005.; "Die Zeichen als Metasprache in der judischen Folklore," in 10+5 = Gott: Die Macht der Zeichen, eds. Daniel Tyradellis and Michael S. Friedlander. Berlin: Judisches Museum Berlin (2004).; "Israel Ben-Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov," in Judaism in Practice from the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, ed. Lawrence Fine. Princeton: Princeton University Press (2001).; "The Narrator as an Editor," in Textualization of Oral Epics, ed. Lauri Honko. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (2000).; "Metaphor." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9 (2000).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation (1989); American Council of Learned Societies grant (1984, 1978); National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1980-81); John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1975); Smithsonian Research Foundation grant (1973).
Research Interests: Folklore and folktales; Humor in Israel and Nigeria.

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Name: Barnard, Rita, professor; English

Education: Ph.D., Duke University

Courses: Modern America; MLA Proseminar: Cinema and Globalization; Post-apartheid Literature

Recent Publications: The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance (1995); Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the Politics of Place (2007)

Representative Awards and Distinctions: The Alan Filreis Teaching Award (2000); The Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (2005)

Research Interests: South African Literature, Post-Colonial African Literature

Name: BUCHSBAUM, MAYA, Lecturer; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Education: B.S., Hebrew University (1974); M.S., Tel Aviv University (1978).
Languages: Hebrew.
Courses: Elementary Hebrew I; Elementary Hebrew II.
Language Pedagogy Training: National Association of Professors of Hebrew conference participant (1998, 2000 and 2001); Oral Proficiency Interview Workshop (1997); Workshop for Teaching Assistants in Languages (1996).
Overseas Research Experience: Israel.
Research Interests: Language Acquisition and Pedagogy.

Name: BUCKWALTER, TIMOTHY, Arabic Lexicographer, Linguistic Data Consortium
Education: B.A., Goshen Collehe (1978); M.A., Indiana University (1981); ABD, Indiana University
Languages: Arabic, Spanish.
Recent Publications: Buckwalter Arabic Morphological Analyzer Version 2.0. 2004. LDC Catalog No.: LDC2004L02; "Issues in Arabic Orthography and Morphology Analysis," in Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages, COLING 2004, Geneva; Arabic Treebank: Part 2 v2.0. (with Mohamed Maamouri, Ann Bies, and Hubert Jin) 2004. LDC Catalog No.: LDC2004T02; Arabic Treebank: Part 1 v2.0 (with Mohamed Maamouri, Ann Bies, and Hubert Jin) 2003. LDC Catalog No.: LDC2003T06; Buckwalter Arabic Morphological Analyzer Version 1.0. 2002. LDC Catalog No.: LDC2002L49; "Review of Diccionario de árabe culto moderno: árabe-español" Al-Arabiyyah: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic 29 (1996);
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Haddawi Award for Excellence in Arabic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University (1987); Indiana University Graduate School Fellowship (1986-87); Indiana University Graduate School Alumni Association Award for Excellence (1986).
Research Interests: Computational Lexicography; Text Indexing, Retrieval and Concordancing.

Name: CARASIK, MICHAEL, Lecturer; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Education: B.A., New College (1973); B.J.S., Spertus College of Judaica (1986); M.J.S., Spertus College of Judaica (1986); M.A., Brandeis University (1997); Ph.D., Brandeis University (1997).
Languages: Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew, Aramaic, Modern Hebrew, Akkadian, Greek, Latin, French, German.
Courses: Elementary Biblical Hebrew; Intermediate Biblical Hebrew.
Overseas Research Experience: Israel.
Recent Publications: "Qohelet's Twists and Turns." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 28 (2003); "Midrash: The Story Behind the Story," in The Solomon Goldman Lectures, Vol. 8, ed. Dean Bell (Chicago: Spertus Press, 2003); "Three Biblical Beginnings," in Beginning/Again: Towards a Hermeneutic of Jewish Texts, ed. Aryeh Cohen and Shaul Magid (New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2002); "Exegetical Implications of the Masoretic Cantillation Marks in Ecclesiastes." Hebrew Studies 42 (2001); "The Limits of Omniscience." Journal of Biblical Literature 199, 2000; "To See a Sound: A Deuteronomic Re-Reading of Exodus 20:15." Prooftexts 19, 1999.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University (1997 and 1999); Contributing Editor, Textual Reasoning (1997-present); Studies in Biblical Literature Wisdom section steering committee member.
Research Interests: History and Literature of Ancient Israel; Midrashic Texts and Medieval Biblical Jewish Exegesis; Comparative Semitics; Ancient Near Eastern History.

Name: CASSANELLI, LEE, Associate Professor; History
Education: B.A., Boston College (1967); M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison (1969); Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (1973).
Languages: French, Italian, Somali.
Courses: Africa Since 1800; Africa Before 1800.
Overseas Research Experience: Somalia, Kenya.
Recent Publications: "History and Identity in the Somali Diaspora." In Variations on the Theme of Somaliness. Edited by M.S. Lilisus. Turku, Finland: Center for Continuing Education, Abo Akademi University (2001); Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War Behind the War. With Catherine Besteman. Paperback with new preface by Lee Cassanelli. London, Haan Associates (2000); "Somali Land Resource Issues in Historical Perspective." In Learning from Somalia: Lessons in Armed Humanitarian Intervention. Edited by Walter C. Clarke and Jeffrey Herbst. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (1997); The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (1982).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Summer Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. (1994); University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation Grant (1994-1996); Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, Somalia (1987); Social Science Research Council Research Grant (1977); Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for Overseas Research (1970-1971).
Research Interests: African History (specializing in Northeastern Africa); Oral History and Ethnohistory; Comparative World History.

Name: COBB, PAUL M. , Associate Professor; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Education: B.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1989); M.A., University of Chicago (1991); Ph.D., University of Chicago (1997).
Languages: Arabic, Persian, Greek, Syriac.
Courses: Getting Crusaded; Arabic Texts in Islamic History; Introduction to the Middle East; The Mongol Experience; Islamic Origins
Overseas Research Experience: Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine.
Recent Publications: White Banners: Contention in ‘Abbasid Syria, 750-880 (SUNY press, 2001); (edited with W.J. van Bekkum) Strategies of Medieval Communal Identity: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Peeters, 2004); Usama ibn Munqidh: Warrior-Poet of the Age of Crusades (Oneworld, 2005); The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades (Penguin Classics, 2008); “Virtual Sacrality: Making Syria Sacred before the Crusades,” Medieval Encounters 8 (2002): 35-55; “The World of Saladin.” Introduction to Hannes Möhring, Saladin: The Sultan and His Time, 1138-1193 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: NEH Fellowship (2002-2003); American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant (2002-2003); Fulbright Regional Research Fellowship (2002-2003); John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2006-2007).
Research Interests: Medieval Islamic social and cultural history; medieval Islamdom and medieval Christendom; Arabic literature; animal lore

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Name: EICHLER, BARRY, Associate Professor; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, [Associate Curator, Babylonian Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]
Education: B.A., Yeshiva University (1960); B.R.E., Yeshiva University Teachers' Institute (1960); Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1967).
Languages: Biblical Hebrew, Akkadian.
Courses: Jewish Law and Ethics; 1st Year Akkadian; Peripheral Akkadian; Alalah Texts;
Overseas Research Experience: Israel.
Recent Publications: Tehillah le-Moshe : Biblical and Judaic Studies in Honor of Moshe Greenberg. Edited with Mordechai Cogan and Jeffrey H. Tigay. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1997; Studies in Midrash and Related Literature. Edited with Jeffrey H. Tigay. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1988; Judah Goldin: Studies in Midrash and Related Literature. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1987; Indenture at Nuzi: The Personal Tidenn¯utu Contract and its Mesopotamian Analogues. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1973.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: American Council of Learned Societies fellow (1977); National Defense Education Act fellow (1960-1964).
Research Interests: Biblical Israel; Jewish Legal and Philosophical Traditions.

Name: ELIAS, JAMAL J., Professor, Religious Studies
Education: B.A., Stanford University (1983); M.A., University of Pennsylvania (1985); M.A., Yale University (1987); Ph.D., Yale University (1991).
Languages: Arabic, French, Persian, Punjabi, Turkish (modern and Ottoman); Urdu.
Courses: Islamic Ethics, Sufism, Sufi Tafsir Literature, Islamic Constructions of Gender
Overseas Research Experience: Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Morocco, Turkey, Pakistan, Uzbekistan
Recent Publications: "The Sufi Robe (khirqa) as a Vehicle of Spiritual Authority" in Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture, ed. Steward Gordon; "Truck Decoration and Religious Identity: Material Culture and Social Function in Pakistan" in Material Culture; "Sayyid 'Ali-yi Hamadani and the Making of His Charisma" in Muslim World; "Not Reading the Writing on the Wall: Monumental Calligraphy as Visual Sign"
in Design: Essays on Popular Visual Culture and Iconography by Saima Zaidi.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Council of the American Overseas Research Centers Fellow; Miner D. Crary Fellow, Amherst College; American Research Institute in Turkey Fellow; Dana Foundation Faculty Fellow.
Research Interests: Islamic mystical thought and metaphysics; Popular Culture in South Asia and Turkey; Sufi literature.

Name: EL-NADY, MAMDOUH, Lecturer; Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, Wharton School, and School of Arts and Sciences.
Education: B.Com. , Cairo University (1975); M.A., Monterey Institute of International Studies (1982); M.B.A., American Graduate School of International Management (1983); Ed.D., San Francisco University (2000).
Languages: Arabic.
Courses: Arabic Language and Cultural Perspectives; Elementary Arabic.
Language Pedagogy Training: Visiting Professor of Arabic, Middlebury College; Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Culture, Defense Langauge Institute (1997-2002); -Master Certificate in Teaching Foreign Languge, Graduate School of Languages and Educational Linguistics, Monterey Institute of International Studies (1995); M.A. in Foreign Language Instruction, Graduate School of Languages and Educational Linguistics, Montery Institute of International Studies (1982).
Overseas Research Experience: Egypt.
Recent Publications: "Drama as a Teaching Technique in the Foreign Language Classroom." Dialog on Language Instruction 14:1-2 (2000); "Teaching Arabic Culture through Language Analysis: Use of Pronouns in the Egyptian Dialect" Dialog on Language Instruction 10:1 (1994).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Certified Arabic Language Instructor, Defense Language Institute; Certified Arabic Language Tester, Defense Language Institute.
Research Interests: Foreign Language Instruction; Technology and Education; Cultural Education.

Name: ENGEL, RONIT, Language Coordinator, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, [Modern Hebrew Language Program]
Education: B.A., Tel Aviv University (1972); Secondary School Teaching Diploma, Tel Aviv University (1973); M.A. studies, University of Judaism (1975).
Languages: Hebrew, French, Polish, Yiddish, Aramaic.
Courses: Elementary Modern Hebrew; Intermediate Modern Hebrew; Hebrew Literature and Composition; Introduction to Modern Hebrew Literature; Seminar in Modern Hebrew Literature.
Language Pedagogy Training: Invited Participant, Israel University Summer Seminar on Teaching Hebrew as a Foreign Language (annually, 1996-2001); Conference participant, National Association of Professors of Hebrew (annually, 1997-2001); Pedagogic Specialist, Bureau of Jewish Education, San Francisco (1980-81); Graduate degree equivelant to Master of Arts in Teaching for Hebrew Language and Literature and Biblical Studies, Department of Pedagogy, Tel Aviv University (1973).
Overseas Research Experience: Israel.
Recent Publications: "Review of E. Raizen Modern Hebrew for Beginners: A Multimedia Program." Middle East Studies Association Bulletin (forthcoming, 2002).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: University of Pennsylvania Instructional Curriculum Development Fund grant (2000-01; 2001-02). Grants for development of web-based curricula.
Research Interests: Hebrew Language and Literature; Language Education Pedagogy; Second-Language Acquisition.

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Name: FETNI, HOCINE, Lecturer, Sociology. [Assistant Dean for Academic Advising, School of Arts and Sciences]
Education: L.L.B., (Licence en Droit), Constantine University Institute of Law, Algeria (1977); L.L.M., New York University School of Law (1980); L.L.M., University of Pennsylvania Law School (1981); Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1992).
Languages: Arabic, French.
Courses: Law and Society; Law and Social Change; War and Society; International Law.
Overseas Research Experience: Algeria.
Recent Publications: Citizenship and Law in the Muslim Arab World (forthcoming, 2006); Law and Development in the Third World: A Case Study of Algeria. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania (Deposited 1992).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Distinguished Teaching Award, College of General Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2005); Graduate Fellow in Residence, Hill House, University of Pennsylvania (1986-1988); Rena and Angelius Anspach Fellowship for Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs, University of Pennsylvania (1982-1984); Algerian Government Scholarship (1977-1982).
Research Interests: Law and Social Change in the Middle East and North Africa; a comprehenisve analysis of the legal profession; international law and human rights.

Name: FISHMAN, TALYA, Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Education: B.A., Wesleyan University (1976); M.A., Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1979); Ph.D., Harvard University (1986).
Languages: Hebrew.
Courses: History of Jewish Civilization; Jewish-Christian Relations Through the Ages; Introduction to Rabbinic Literature.
Overseas Research Experience: Israel.
Recent Publications: "Rhineland Pietists' Sacralization of Oral Torah." Jewish Quarterly Review forthcoming (2006); "Rhineland Pietist Approaches to Prayer and the Textualization of Rabbinic Culture in Medieval Northern Europe." Jewish Quarterly Review 11 (2004); "A Medieval Screed Against Textual Emendation." CAJS Web Exhibit: Challenging Boundaries: History and Anthropology in Jewish Studies (2004); "Changing Early Modern Jewish Discourse About Christianity: The Efforts of Leon Modena," in The Lion Will Roar: Rabbi Leon Modena and His Times, ed. David Malkiel. Jerusalem: Magnes Press (2002); "The Penitential System of Hasidei Ashkenaz and the Problem of Cultural Boundaries." Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 8 (1999); "Forging Jewish Memory: Besamim Rosh and the Invention of Pre-Emancipation Jewish Culture," in Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, ed. E. Carlebach, J. Efron and D. Myers. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press (1998).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: ACLS Fellowship for Independent Scholars (2000-01); Visiting Scholar, Program in Jewish Studies, Stanford University (1998-99); Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (1995-96); Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship (1995-96); Yad HaNadiv-Barecha Foundation Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1991-92).
Research Interests: Early Modern Jewish Philosophy and Theology; Gender and Religion.

Name:  FRAME, GRANT, Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Associate Curator, Babylonian Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Education: B.A., University of Toronto (1973); M.A. University of Toronto (1974); Ph.D., University of Chicago (1981).
Languages: Akkadian, Sumerian, Biblical Hebrew, French, German.
Courses:  Introduction to the Ancient Near East; Ancient Iraq: Mesopotamian Culture and Legacy; Myths and Religions of the Ancient World; Early Empires of the Ancient Near East: The Neo-Assyrian Empire; Akkadian Historical Texts; Akkadian Literary Texts.
Overseas Research Experience:  Iraq, Syria, Turkey.
Recent Publications:  Babylonia 689-627 BC: A Political History.  Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2007 (reprint); “The Tell ‘Acharneh Stela of Sargon II of Assyria,” in Tell ‘Acharneh 1998-2004, ed. M. Fortin (Subartu 18) (Brepols, 2006); “The Royal Libraries of Nineveh:  New Evidence for King Ashurbanipal’s Tablet Collecting,” Iraq 67/1 (2005) (co-author with A.R. George); From the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea:  Studies on the History of Assyria and Babylonia in Honour of A.K. Grayson, ed. G. Frame, with the assistance of L.S. Wilding. Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2004; Rulers of Babylonia:  From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157–612 BC). University of Toronto Press, 2002 (reprint); “A Neo-Babylonian Surety Document with an Aramaic Docket and the Surety Phrase put shepi … nashu ” in The World of the Aramaeans:  Studies in Honour of Paul-Eugène Dion, volume 3, eds. by P.M.M. Daviau, J.W. Wevers, and M. Weigl (Sheffield Academic Press, 2001).
Representative Awards and Distinctions:  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research grant, 2003-2006.
Research Interests:  History and Culture of Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BCE.

Name: GIEGENGACK, ROBERT, Professor; Earth and Environmental Science
Education: B.A., Yale University (1960); M.S., University of Colorado (1962); Ph.D., Yale University (1968).
Courses: Earth & Environmental Science courses
Overseas Research Experience: Egypt, Venezuela.
Recent Publications: "Petrogenesis of artifact-bearing fossil-spring tufa deposits from Kharga Oasis, Egypt." With Kathleen Nicoll and Maxine Kleindienst. Geoarchaeology (forthcoming); "Mineralogy and geochemistry of the Plio-Pleistocene lacustrine beds in Wadi Feiran, south Sinai, Egypt: Implications for environmental and climate change." With H.S. Abdelwahab. Quarternary Research (forthcoming); "Distribution of trace and rare-earth elements in late Pleistocene and Holocene core sections, north-central Nile Delta, Egypt." With H.S. Abdelwahab. Egyptian Journal of Science, v. 15 (forthcoming); "Topographic inversion as a geomorphic process in the hyperarid eastern Sahara." Vance Haynes Retirement Conference, Tucson, AZ (9/25/99), abs.; "Stratigraphic constraints on the age and origin of Libyan Desert Glass: Meeting on Libyan Desert Glass and Related Desert Events." With James R. Underwood, Jr. Pyramids (1997); "The cometary signature in Libyan Desert Glass: Meeting on Libyan Desert Glass and related Desert Events." With A.V. Murali, James Underwood, Jr., and M. Zolenski. Pyramids (1997).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Founding member of the Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response [ISTAR] (2001); College of General Studies Distinguished Teaching Award (1999); Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Award, Pennsylvania Department of Health (1997); Ira Abrams Distinguished Teaching Award (1994); Co-director of the Institute for Environmental Studies (1992-1998).
Research Interests: Is currently part of a large research team investigating the importance of international wetlands with a special focus on the marshes of Southern Iraq. The research team will produce a feasibility study for saving the Iraqi wetlands in the post Saddam Hussein era.

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Name: GOLD, NILI, Associate Professor; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Education: B.A., Hebrew University (1970); Secondary Teaching Diploma, Hebrew University (1971); M.A., Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1976); Ph.D., Jewish Theological Seminary (1990).
Languages: Hebrew, French, German.
Courses:   Israeli Literature and Film in Translation (various topics), Studies in Modern Hebrew Literature; Seminar in Modern Hebrew Literature (various topics). 
Language Pedagogy Training: Secondary Teaching Diploma in Hebrew Language, Hebrew University; Modern Hebrew Language instructor, MEALAC, Columbia University Director of Hebrew Language Programs, Jewish Theological Seminary of America.  
Overseas Research Experience: Israel, Germany.
Recent Publications: A critical biography Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel’s National Poet (University Press of New England/ Brandeis University, 2008.);”On ‘Hovering at a Low Altitude’ in ‘Because of a lifetime’: articles on the work  of Dahlia Ravikovitch from the 1950s onward eds. H. Tsamir and T. S. Hess; 'Massa kritit', (Heksherim at Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv: Zmorah Bittan Modan 2008) [in Hebrew] ; The Topography of the City and the Body: Yehudit Katzir’s Haifa” in Hebrew Studies, Vol. XLVII, 281-294. 2006 “Mysticism and Messiahs in the Poetry of Binyamin Shvili,” in Religion and Religiosity in Modern Jewish and Islamic Literatures, eds. G. Abramson and H. Kilpatrick (Oxford: Rutledge),71-89, 2005; Lo ka-berosh : gilgule imaz'im ve-tavniyot be-shirat Yehudah `Amihai. (Not Like a Cypress: Transformations of Images and Structures in Yehuda Amichi's Poetry) Jerusalem, IL: Shoken Books, 1994. 
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Gold’s recent book on Amichai was the topic of a symposium held at Ben Gurion University in December 2008. German Academic Exchange Scholarship (1997); Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation Award (1996); Israel Ministry of Science and Culture Award for Best First Book in Hebrew Literature for Not like a cypress: Schocken [in Hebrew]. (1994); Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture Doctoral Scholarship Grant (1988-89). 
Research Interests: Modern Hebrew Literature; Israeli Poetry; Israeli film and Culture.

Name: GOLDBERG, JESSICA, Assistant Professor; History
Education: B.A., Harvard (1991); M.S., Bank St College of Education, NYC (1997), M.A.(1998), MPhil (2001), PhD (2005), Columbia University.
Languages: Arabic, Judeo-Arabic, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Hebrew.
Courses: Advanced Corporate Finance; Corporate Finance;
Overseas Research Experience: Egypt.
Recent Publications: “The Legal Persona of the Child in Gratian’s Decretum” Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 24 (2000) 10-53; “Back-biting and Self-promotion: the Office Politics of Medieval Merchants” in History in the Comic Mode: Sources and Stories from the European Middle Ages Fulton and Holsinger, eds. Columbia University Press, in press.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Fellow, Penn Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, 2006-2007. Theme for year: “Jews, Christians, and Muslims under Caliphs and Sultans”; Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Humanities Fellows Program, Stanford University 2005-2007; Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University 2004-2005; Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship, Columbia University 2002-2005
Research Interests: Medieval Mediterranean World

Name: GUILLOT, MICHEL, Associate Professor; Sociology, Graduate Group in Demography
Education: B.A., University of Paris IV-Sorbonne(1992); M.A., University of Paris I-Sorbonne (1995), Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2000).
Languages: French, Russian, Persian
Courses: Demographic Methods; Population and Society; Statistics
Overseas Research Experience: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Russia.
Recent Publications: “Ethnic Differentials in Adult Mortality in Kyrgyzstan,” (with Natalia Gavrilova and Tetyana Pudrovska), forthcoming in Mortality in countries of the former USSR. Fifteen years after the break-up: change or continuity? Anatoly Vishnevsky (ed.). Moscow: Center for Demography and Ecology; “Mortality in Kyrgyzstan since 1959: Real Patterns and Data Artifacts”. Espace-Populations-Sociétés 2007(1): 113-126; Naselenie Kyrgyzstana [The Population of Kyrgyzstan] (ed. with Zarylbek Kudabaev and Mikhail Denissenko). 2004. Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic: Natsional’ny Statistichesky Komitet Kyrgyzkoy Respubliki, 373 pp.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Grant funding "Mortality in Central Asia," National Institutes of Health; H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School, 2008; Fulbright Fellowship, 1995-1996.
Research Interests: Demography, Central Asia

Name: GULTEKIN, BÜLENT, Associate Professor; Finance, Wharton School
Education: B.S., Robert College, Istanbul (1969); M.A., Bogazici University, Istanbul (1974); M.A., Wharton School (1975); Ph.D., Wharton School (1976).
Languages: Turkish.
Courses: Advanced Corporate Finance; Corporate Finance;
Overseas Research Experience: Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Belgium, France.
Recent Publications: "Turkish Economy before the EU Accession Talks." With K. Yilmaz in The EU and Turkey: A Glittering Prize or a Millstone? ed. Michael Lake. The Federal Trust, London, 2005; "Predictions of Financial Vulnerability: Case of Turkey," Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2:2 (December 2004); "Markov Chains in Predictive Models of Currency Crises - with Applications to Southeast Asia." With R. S. Mariano, A. Abiad, T. Shabbir and A.H.H. Tan. Taiwan Economic Review, 31:4 (December, 2003); "Models of Economic and Financial Crises." With R. Mariano, S. Ozmucur and T. Shabir. Middle East Economic Journal (Sept. 2000); "Privatization in Post-Communist Economies." With M. A. Goldstein, in Financial Sector Reform and Privatization in Transitional Economies, ed. J. Doukas, et al. Elsevier Science North Holland, 1998.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Teaching Excellence Award for Elective Courses, Wharton Executive MBA Program, 2003; Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (1993);Trustee, Koc University, Istanbul (1992-present); Foundation for Management Education in Turkey Fellowship (1973-1976); Ford Foundation Fellowship (1973-1976).
Research Interests: Corporate Finance; Capital Markets; Financial Development and Emerging Markets

Name: HATIBOGLU, FERIDE, Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Education: Ph.D. Marmara University (2007); M.A., Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey (1991); L.L.B., Istanbul University (1982).
Langauges: Turkish.
Courses: Elementary Turkish; Intermediate Turkish; Advanced Turkish.
Research Interests: Banking and Insurance; Education; Distance Learning.

Name: HIEBERT, FREDRIK, Assistant Professor; Anthropology, [Robert H. Dyson Assistant Curator, Near East Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]
Education: B.A., University of Michigan (1984); M.A., Harvard University (1988); Ph.D., Harvard University (1992).
Languages: Russian, Arabic, Turkish, French.
Courses: Exploring the Silk Road; Archaeology of Northern Asia; Ancient Cultures of Central Asia; Economics of Ancient Trade; Archaeology of Seafaring.
Overseas Research Experience: Turkmenistan, Turkey, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Egypt, Jordan.
Recent Publications: "Ancient Eurasian Pastoralists and Environments." In Environmental Disruptions and the Archaeology of Human Response. Edited by Garth Bawden. Sante Fe, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1999; "Central Asians on the Iranian Plateau: A Model for Indo-Iranian Expansionism." In Bronze Age Cultures of Eastern Central Asia. Edited by Victor Mair. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1998.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Committee on Research and Exploration Chairman's Award, National Geographic Society (1999).
Research Interests: Urban and oasis cultures of the Northern Near East and Central Asia.

Name: HOLOD, RENATA, Professor; History of Art, [Curator of Islamic Art, Near East Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]
Education: B.A., University of Toronto (1964); M.A., University of Michigan (1965); Ph.D., Harvard University (1972).
Languages: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, French, German, Spanish, Ukranian.
Courses: Introduction to Visual Culture of the Islamic World; Islamic Art and Architecture; Islamic Epigraphy; The Islamic City; Art of Andalusia; Islamic Archaeology.
Overseas Research Experience: Syria, Iran, Turkey, Morocco.
Recent Publications: City in the Islamic World (multi-author volume) for Brill, 2005; The Contemporary Mosque: Architects, Clients and Designs Since 1950. With Hasan al-Din Khan. New York, NY: Rizzoli Press, 1997.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre, Award for Outstanding Work in Islamic Architectural Studies, June 2004; Provost's Interdisciplinary Seminar Grant; Pew Grant for Curriculum Innovation; King Fahd Medal for the Teaching of Islamic Architecture; Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award.
Research Interests: Architecture of Iran, 14th-16th Centuries; Architecture and Urban History; Architecture and Archaeology of the Mediterranean; Central Asia and the Iranian Highlands, 700-1300.

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Name: HOLQUIST, PETER ISAAC, Assoc. Professor, History
Education: B.A. with High Distinction, Indiana University, Bloomington (1986); M.A. (1989), M.Phil. awarded with excellence 1995, and Ph.D. (1995) Columbia University.
Languages: Russian, French and German
Courses: Imperial Russia, 1689-1905; The Soviet Century; The World of Anna Karenina; The First World War; Issues and Themes in Imperial Russian History
Recent Publications: Founding Editor, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, published quarterly since January 2000 by Slavica Publishers; Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum of Crisis, 1914-1921 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002); . “Violent Russia, Deadly Marxism: Russia in the Epoch of Violence,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 4, no. 3 (Summer 2003): 627-52.; “Kak kazaki stali kontrrevoliutsionerami: anti-sovetskoe vosstanie na Donu v aprele-mae 1918 g.,” [“How Cossacks became Counterrevolutionaries: The anti-Soviet Uprising on the Don, April-May 1918”] in Novaia politicheskaia istoriia: sbornik nauchnykh rabot [The New Political History] [=Istochnik. Istorik. Istoriia.  vol. 4], ed. M. M. Krom (St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 2004), 98-128; “Baron Boris Emmanuilovich Nolde: The Dilemmas of an ‘Official with Progressive Views,’” Kritika 7, no. 2 (Spring 2006), 241-73 [Republished in: Baltic Yearbook for International Law, vol. 7 (2007), 211-49]; Associate Editor, Europe since 1914 Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction (New York: Thomson Gale and Sons, 2006), 5 vols., under the general editorship of John Merriman and Jay Winter; Co-edited with Michael David Fox and Alexander Martin, Orientalism and Empire, vol. 3 of Kritika Historical Studies (Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2006)
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Eurasia Grant Award, 2000-2001; National Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1999-2000; National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) grant; Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists, 2003-2004.
Research Interests: Russian History; World War I; History of Marxism; Soviet History; Islam in Russia

Name: KASHANI-SABET, FIROOZEH, Associate Professor; History, [Director, Middle East Ctr.]
Website: http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/kashani.htm
Education: B.A., University of North Carolina (1989); M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University (1997).
Languages: Persian, French, Italian, German, Arabic, Ottoman Turkish (with various degrees of fluency).
Courses: History of the Modern Middle East Since 1800; Ideologies of Revolution in the Modern Middle East; Diplomacy in the Middle East.
Overseas Research Experience: Iran, Turkey.
Recent Publications: "The Politics of Reproduction: Maternalism and Women's Hygiene in Iran, 1896-1941" IJMES, February 2006 (nominated by IJMES for the Berkshire Article Prize); "Who is Fatima? Gender, Culture, and Representation in Islam." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Spring 2005; "Patriotic Womanhood: The Culture of Feminism in Modern Iran." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, May 2005; "Cultures of Iranianness: The Evolving Polemic of Iranian Nationalism," in Iran and the Surrounding World, eds. Nikki Keddie and Rudi Matthee. Univ. of Washington Press, 2002; "Hallmarks of Humanism: Hygiene and Love of Homeland in Qajar Iran." American Historical Review 105:4 (2000); Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1999); "Picturing the Homeland: Geography and National Identity in Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Iran." Journal of Historical Geography 24:4 (1998).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: University Research Foundation Award, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2005; Provost's Interdisciplinary Seminar Fund, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2004; Fellowship, University of Oxford, Spring 2003; Fellowship of the Working Group on Modernity and Islam at the Wissenschaftskolleg Zu Berlin (1998-99, declined).
Research Interests: Nationalism and state formation; Ottoman-Iranian relations; Iran-Iraq border disputes; Afghan-Iranian relations; social and women's history; Shi`ism.

Name: KATZ, ELIHU, Professor; Annenberg School for Communication
Education: B.A., M.A. and Ph.D., Columbia University (1948, 1950, 1956).
Languages: Hebrew, French.
Courses: Media Events; Conceptualizing Media Effects; Public Space; Leisure Culture and Communication.
Overseas Research Experience: Israel; Survey of Broadcasting in 12 Third World Countires.
Recent Publications: "'Just Call Me Adonai': Ethnic Humor and Immigrant Assimilation." Amer. Soc. Rev., 2005 (with Limor Shifman); Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are There Any? Should There Be? How About These? Edited with J. D. Peters, T. Leibes, A. Orloff. Cambridge, Polity Press (2003); Election Studies: What's Their Use. Edited with Yael Warshel. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (2001); "Bridging the Spheres: Political and Personal Conversation in Public and Private Spaces." With Robert O. Wyatt and Joohan Kim. Journal of Communication 50:1 (2000); Beracha Report: Cultural Policy in Israel. With Hed Sella. Jerusalem: Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (1999).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2006); Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999); Fellow, Bellagio Study Center, Rockefeller Foundation (1997); Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award, Political Communications Section, American Political Science Association (1993); Helen Dinerman Award, World Association for Public Opinion Research (1992); The Israel Prize (1989)
Research Interests: Media Events, Conceptualizing Media Effects

Name: KEENE, JOHN, Professor; City and Regional Planning, Graduate School of Fine Arts
Education: B.A., Yale University (1956); J.D., Harvard Law School (1959); M.A., University of Pennsylvania (1966).
Languages: French, Spanish.
Courses: Housing Planning in Developing Countries; The Law of Planning and Urban Development; Historic Preservation Law; Environmental Planning; Energy Law.
Overseas Research Experience: Spain and North Africa.
Recent Publications: "Environmental Planning." In The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier Science (2001); "Equity Considerations in Metropolitan Growth Management." In Planning for the New Century: The Regional Agenda. Edited by Jonathan Barnett. Washington, D.C.: Island Press (2000); Current Perspectives on Differential Assessment of Farmland. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.(1997); "Managing Ecological Pollution." Ecology Law Quarterly 11:2 (1983).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: William Penn Foundation Research Grant (2001-02); Kellog Foundation Grant (1997-2001); University of Pennsylvania Research Grant (1999); U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Grant (1997-present).
Research Interests: Cross-Regional Housing Planning; Legal Aspects of Land Use and Development.

Name: KIRON, ARTHUR, Curator of Judaica Collections, University of Pennsylvania Library; Adjunct Assistant Professor of History.
Education: B.A., Brandeis University (1985); M.A., Stanford University (1991); M.A., Columbia University (1994); M.Phil., Columbia University (1996); Ph.D., Columbia University (1999).
Languages: Aramaic, German, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish
Overseas Research Experience: England, Israel, Italy, Germany.
Recent Publications: "Mythologizing 1654." Jewish Quarterly Review 94:4 (Fall 2004); "Varieties of Haskalah: Sabato Morais' Program of Sephardic Rabbinic Humanism in Victorian America," in Reconfiguring Jewish Culture from Al-Andalus to the Haskalah, eds. Adam Sutcliffe and Ross Brann (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003); "Livornese Traces in American Jewish History: Sabato Morais and Elijah Benamozegh," in Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi nel Centenario della morte di Elia Benamozegh. Milan: De Pas Editrice (2002); "The Professionalization of Wisdom: The Legacy of Dropsie College and Its Library," in The Penn Library Collections at 250: From Franklin to the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Library (2000).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Lucius N. Littauer Fellow, Center for Judaic Studies, University of PA (1998-99); National Foundation For Jewish Culture Dissertation Fellowship (1998-99); Memorial Foundation For Jewish Culture Dissertation Fellowship (1999); Scholarship Prize, Feinstein Center for American Jewish History (Summer, 1997); Guest Fellow, Center for Judaic Studies, University of PA (Spring, 1997); Richard Hofstadter Fellow, History Dept., Columbia University (1993-98); Fellow, Center for Israel and Judaic Studies, Columbia University (1994-95); YIVO-Columbia Summer Yiddish Program Scholarship (Summer, 1993).
Research Interests: Jewish History and Historiography; Gender and Jewish History; Rabbinic Humanism in the Victorian Period; History of the Jewish Book.

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Name: KOPYCKI, WILLIAM, Bibliographer, Middle East Collection, Van Pelt Library
Education: B.A., American Islamic College (1992), M.A., American University in Cairo (1996), M.L.I.S., University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (2000)
Languages: Arabic, Persian
Overseas Research and Professional Experience: Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates
Representative Awards and Distinctions: George Atiyeh Prize, Middle East Librarians Association (2001)
Research Interests: Arabic and Islamic studies; library history and development in the Middle East and Central Asia; multi-script computing and information technology; bibliographic research.

Name: KRAFT, ROBERT, Professor; Religious Studies
Education: B.A., Wheaton College (1955); M.A., Wheaton Graduate School (1957); Ph.D., Harvard University (1961).
Languages: German, French, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic.
Courses: Dead Sea Scrolls; Sources for the Life of Jesus; Judaism in the Hellenistic Era; Early Christianity; Seminar on Judaism and Christianity; Life and Letters of Paul.
Overseas Research Experience: Israel, Germany.
Recent Publications: "Reviving (and Refurbishing) the Lost Apocrypha of M. R. James," in Things Revealed: Studies in Early Jewish and Christian Literature in Honor of Michael E. Stone, eds. E. G. Chazon, D. Satran, and R. E. Clements (Leiden: Brill, 2004); "The Weighing of the Parts: Pivots and Pitfalls in the Study of Early Judaisms and their Early Christian Offspring," in The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, ed. Adam H. Becker and Annette Yoshiko Reed (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 95; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003);"Some Newly Identified LXX/OG Fragments among the Amherst Papyri at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City," in EMANUEL: Studies in Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, and Dead Sea Scrolls in honor of Emanuel Tov, ed. Shalom M. Paul, Robert A. Kraft, Lawrence H. Schiffman and Weston W. Fields, with the assistance of Eva Ben-David (Leiden/Boston: Brill 2003); "Pliny on Essenes, Pliny on Jews." Dead Sea Discoveries 8 (2001); "The Pseudepigrapha and Christianity Revisited: Setting the State and Framing Some Central Questions." Journal for the Study of Judaism 32 (2001).
Research Interests: Early Christianity; Dead Sea Scrolls; Use of Computer Research in Scholarship on Early Christianity; Septuagint and Old Greek, papyri collections at the University of Pennsylvania.

Name: KRAIDY, MARWAN, Professor; Annenberg School for Communication
Education: B.A., Notre Dame University (1992); M.A., Ohio University (1994); Ph.D. Ohio University (1996).
Languages: Arabic, French, Spanish
Courses: Culture and Modernity in the "Arab Media Revolution"; Global and Comparative Media Systems
Recent Publications: “Governance and Hypermedia in Saudi Arabia,” First Monday, 11(9), (September 2006); “Reality Television and Politics in the Arab World (Preliminary Observations)”, Transnational Broadcasting Studies 2 (1), 7-28, (2006); Hybridity or, the Cultural Logic of Globalization. Philadelphia: Temple University Press (2005); Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives. Co-edited with Patrick D. Murphy. London & New York: Routledge (2003) 
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (2005-2006); Prosser/Sitaram Award for Excellence in International Communication Theory (2000); Outstanding Scholarship Award in International and Intercultural Communication (1999); Ralph Cooley Award (1998); Outstanding Teaching Awards from American University, University of North Dakota, and Ohio University.
Research Interests: Global communication studies; comparative and regional media systems; Arab media, politics, and culture; theories of globalization and modernity

Name: LEICHTY, ERLE, Professor Emeritus; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations [Curator Emeritus, Babylonian Section, University Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology]
Education: B.A., University of Michigan (1955); M.A., University of Michigan (1957); Ph.D., University of Chicago (1960).
Languages: Akkadian, Sumerian, Arabic, German, French.
Recent Publications: "Ritual, Sacrifice and Divination." Orientalia Loveniesia Analecta 55 (1994); "Esarhaddon's Letter to the Gods." In "Ah, Assyrian…Studies in Assyrian History and Ancient Near Eastern Historiography Presented to Hayim Tadmor" Scripta Heirosolymitana 33 (1990); "A Tamihtu from Nippur." In Lingering Over Words: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Literature in Honor of William L. Moran. Edited by Tzvi Abusch, John Huehnergard, Piotr Steinkeller. Atlanta: Scholars Press (1990); "Feet of Clay." In Dumu-e-dub-ba-a: Studies in Honor of Ake Sjoberg. Edited by Hermann Behrens, Darlene Loding, Martha T. Roth. Philadelphia: University Museum (1989).
Research Interests: Ancient Near Eastern Literature; Babylonian Tablets.

Name: LOWRY, JOSEPH E., Assistant Professor; Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations.
Education: B.A., University of Washington (1985); J.D., University of Pennsylvania (1990); M.A., University of Pennsylvania (1991); Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1999).
Languages: Arabic, Persian.
Courses: Introduction to Islamic Law; Origins of Islamic Political Thought; Introduction to the Qur’an; Readings in Classical Arabic Texts.
Overseas Academic and Professional Experience: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Kuwait.
Recent Publications: Law and Education in Medieval Islam: Studies in Memory of George Makdisi, eds. J. Lowry, D. Stewart and S. Toorawa. Cambridge: E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2005; "The Legal Hermeneutics of al-Shafi‘i and Ibn Qutayba: A Reconsideration," Islamic Law and Society 11:1 (2004); "Ritual Purity," Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an, v. 4 (Leiden: Brill, in progress); "Histories and Polyphonies: Deep Structures in
al-Tayyib Salih’s Mawsim al-hijra ila al-shamal," Edebiyât 12 (2001); co-author, Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition, D. Reynolds, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: MESA Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award (2000); American Association of Teachers of Arabic Translation, First Prize (1989); .
Research Interests: Islamic Law, Arabic Literature, Classical Islamic Thought, Qur’an, Early Islam.

Name: LUSTICK, IAN, Professor; Political Science
Education: B.A., Brandeis University (1971); M.A., University of California, Berkeley (1972); Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1976).
Languages: Hebrew, French, Arabic.
Courses: Contemporary Politics of the Middle East; Arab-Israeli Relations; Hegemonic Analysis; Nations, States and Empires; Political Identities and Political Institutions; Studies in Comparative Politics; Introduction to Political Science; Complexity, Evolution, and Politics.
Overseas Research Experience: Israel, Palestine, Algeria, France, Ireland, UK.
Recent Publications: "Abandoning the Iron Wall:  Israel and the Middle Eastern Muck" Middle East Policy (September 2008); Trapped in the War on Terror - Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006; Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews. Edited with Ann M. Lesch. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005; "Yerushalayim, al-Quds, and the Wizard of Oz: Facing the Problem of Jerusalem after Camp David II and the al-Aqsa Intifada." Journal of Israeli History 23:2 (Autumn 2004); "Secessionism in Multicultural States: Does Sharing Power Prevent or Encourage It?" (co-authored with Dan Miodownik and Roy J. Eidelson) American Political Science Review 98:2 (May 2004); "In Search of Hegemony: Nationalism and Religion in the Middle East," Hagar: International Social Science Review 3:2 (2002); "The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Society and the Military." Middle East Journal 56:3 (2002); "The Political Requirements of Victory." Middle East Policy 8:4 (2001); Right-sizing the State: The Politics of Moving Borders. Edited with Brendan O'Leary and Thomas Callaghy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Bess W. Heyman Endowed Chair in the School of Arts and Sciences (2004- ); National Science Foundation Grant (2003-05); Merriam Term Chair (2001-06); Carnegie Corporation Research Grant (2000-2002); J. David Greenstone Award for the Best Book in Politics and History, American Political Science Association (1995); Richard L. Simon Term Chair in the Social Sciences (1991-1996, 1996-2001).
Research Interests: Arab-Israeli Conflict; Ethnic Conflict and State-Building; Israeli Society and National Identity; Agent-Based Modeling and Macro-Level Theorizing; Social Science Methodology.

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Name: MAAMOURI, MUHAMMAD, Senior Research Administrator; Linguistic Data Consortium.
Education: Diplôme d'études littéraires générales (DELG), Paris-Sorbonne (1961); Licence es-Lettres Anglaises, Université de Tunis (1963); Diplôme d'études supérieures (DES d'anglais), Université de Paris (1964); M.A., Cornell University (1965); Ph.D. Cornell University (1967).
Languages: Arabic, French.
Overseas Research Experience: Tunisia, France.
Recent Publications: "Developing an Arabic Treebank: Methods, Guidelines, Procedures, and Tools" Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages, COLING 2004; "Resources for Arabic Natural Language Processing at the Linguistic Data Consortium." Proceedings of the International Symposium on 'Arabic Processing'. Tunis: Université de la Manouba (2002); "Higher Eductation, ICT, and Literacy and Basic Education in Developing Countries: What Possible Partnerships?" With Daniel Wagner. Paris: OECD (2001); "The Chad Report: Observations, Challenges and Recommendations." In Beloisya: Basic Education and Livelihood Opportunities for Illiterate and Semiliterate Young Adults. World Bank Discussion Paper. Washington, D.C.: World Bank (2001); "World Literacy: What Went Wrong?" UNESCO Courier Magazine. Paris: UNESCO (2000); "Literacy in the Arab Region: An Overview." In International Literacy Handbook. Edited by Daniel A. Wagner, et al. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (1999).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Officer de l'Ordre du Mérite National, France (1985); Pushkin Gold Medal Recipient, Puskin Institute, USSR (1985); Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1980); Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, France (1977); Ford Foundation Graduate Scholarship (1963-1967).
Research Interests: Literacy and Language Education in the Developing World; Arabic Linguistics and Phonology; Arabic Lexicography.

Name: MATTER, E. ANN, Professor; Religious Studies
Education: B.A., Oberlin College (1971); M.Phil., Yale University (1975); M.A., Yale University (1975); Ph.D., Yale University (1976).
Languages: Greek, Latin, German, Italian.
Courses: Women and Religion; Religions of the West; Religion, Health and Healing; Christian Apocalyptic Thought; Feminist Critique of Christianity; Medieval Religious Palaeography.
Recent Publications: "The Undebated Debate: Gender and the Image of God in Medieval Theology." In Gender in Debate: From the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Edited by Thelma S. Fenster and Clare Lees. New York: Palgrave Books (2002); The Medieval Liturgy: Essays for Teachers. Edited with Thomas Heffernan. Kalamazoo, MI: The Medieval Institute Press, 2001; "Habemus Corpus: Women's Embodiment, Feminist Spirituality and Catholic Theology - An Essay in Memory of Kevin Gordon." Theology and Sexuality 14, 43-58, 2001; "Theories of the Passions and Ecstacies of Late Medieval Women." Essays in Medieval Studies 18 (2001); "Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the Late Twentieth Century: Apocalyptic, Representation, Politics." Religion 33 (2001).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: University of Pennsylvania Association of Women Faculty and Administrators' Leonore H. Williams Award (1999); R. Jean Brownlee Term Professorship (1996-2001); John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1996).
Research Interests: Biblical Exegesis; Spirituality & Mysticism; Women's History and Spirituality.

Name: MINUCHEHR, PARDIS, Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Education: B.A., Allameh Tabatabai University (1988); M.A. University of Massachussetts (1992); M. Phil. Columbia University; Ph.D. Columbia University (1998).
Languages: Persian, German, Turkish, Ottoman, French, Arabic
Courses: Elementary Persian, Advanced Persian in Media, Iranian Cinema, The
Art of Iran: Nizami, Persian Mystical Thought: Mowlana Jalalluddin Rumi
Overseas Research: Research as a DAAD Faculty Fellow at the Freie Universitaet
Berlin, Faculty at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey .
Recent Publications: The Atabat and the Persian Constitutional Exile Press in
edited book by Robert Gleave on Religion in Qajar Iran.
Research Interests: The Iranian Constitutional era, Persian medieval
literature, Safavid-Ottoman-Moghul cultural exchanges and interactions, Persian
Modern Drama, Middle Eastern Cinema.

Name: NITAMI, HASSAN, Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies.
Education: B.A., University of Cadi Ayyad, Marrakesh, Morocco (1997).
Languages: Arabic, French, Tamazigh, Spanish, Japanese.
Courses: Beginning, Intermediate Arabic; Business Arabic; Arabic and the Social Sciences.
Language Pedagogy Training: Learning Technology Workshops, University of Pennsylvania (2004); Foreign Language Teaching Assistants Workshop at Penn (2002, 2004).
Overseas Research Experience: Morocco.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Merit Award, Arabic Department, University of Pennsylvania (2003); Fulbright Fellow, University of Pennsylvania (2002-2003).
Research Interests: Language Acquisition; Acquiring Fluency in Foreign Languages.

Name: NORTON, ANNE, Professor; Political Science
Education: B.A., University of Chicago (1977); M.A., University of Chicago (1979); Ph.D., University of Chicago (1983).
Languages: French, Arabic.
Courses: Muslim Political Thought; Islam and Modernity; Critical Methods in Political Science; Ancient Political Thought; Modern Political Thought; American Political Thought.
Recent Publications: 95 Theses on Politics, Culture and Method. New Haven: Yale University Press (2003); Bloodrites of the Postructuralists: Word, Flesh and Revolution. London: Routledge (2002); Republic of Signs: Liberal Theory and American Popular Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1993); "Gender, Sexuality and the Iraq of Our Imagination." Middle East Report, November/December (1991); Reflections on Political Identity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1988).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: American Political Science Association Liaison to the American Council of Learned Societies (2002-2005);President, Politics and History Section, American Political Science Association (2000-01).
Research Interests: Liberalism and Modernity; Issues of Authority and Sexuality in Maharajah Jai Singh's Court in Alwar.

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Name: O'LEARY, BRENDAN, Professor, Political Science; Director of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethno-Political Conflict.
Education: B.A., Oxford University, Keble College (1981); Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science (1988).
Languages: French
Overseas Research Experience: Ireland, U.K., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Somalia, South Africa, Iraq (Kurdistan), Jordan, Israel, Turkey, India, Singapore, Indonesia.
Courses: Nationalism and Self-Determination; National, Ethnic and Communal Conflicts; The Politics of Contemporary Iraq..
Recent Publications: Terror, Insurgency and the State, (edited with Marianne Hieberg and John Tirman), Philadelphia: UPenn Press (2007), The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq (edited with J. McGarry and K. Salih) Philadelphia: UPenn Press (2005; paperback 2006); "The Denial, Resurrection and Affirmation of Kurdistan," "Power-Sharing, Pluralist Federation and Federacy," "Negotiating a Federation in Iraq," with K. Ekland and P. Williams, in The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq. Philadelphia: UPenn Press (2005); "Debating Consociation: Normative and Explanatory Arguments," in From Power-Sharing to Democracy: Post-Conflict Institutions in Ethnically Divided Societies, ed. S. J. R. Noel. Toronto: McGill-Queens University Press (2005); Draft Charter of Rights and Principles for National, Ethnic, Linguistic and Religious Minorities for Ministry of Human Rights, Kurdistan Regional Government (2004); "Building Inclusive States" background paper for the UNDP's Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World (2004) - see Penn Political Science web-site for Professor O'Leary's publications.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: International Constitutional Advisor to the Kurdish Regional Parliament and Government(s) (2004); US Institute of Peace Award, held with John McGarry (1998-2001); Social Science Research Council, held with Ian S. Lustick.
Research Interests: Power-sharing systems; Nationalism; National, Ethnic and Communal Violence; Democracy, Democratization, Electoral systems.

Name: OZMUCUR, SULEYMAN, Research Associate; Economics
Education: B.A., Bogazici University (1973); M.A., Manchester University (1974); Ph.D., Istanbul University (1976).
Languages: Turkish.
Overseas Research Experience: Turkey.
Recent Publications: "Real Wages and Standards of Living in the Ottoman Empire, 1489-1914." With Sevket Pamuk. The Journal of Economic History 62:2 (2002); "Productivity and Profitability in the 500 Largest Firms of Turkey, 1980-94." in State-Owned Enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa, Privatization, Performance and Reform. Edited by Merih Celasun. Routledge:London and New York (2001); "Budget Deficit, Inflation, and Debt Sustainability: Evidence from Turkey (1970-2000)." With O.Cevdet Akcay, C. Emre. In Inflation and Disinflation in Turkey. Edited by Kibritcioglu,A, L. Rittenberg, and F. Aldershot. Ashgate (2001); The Economics of Defense and the Peace Dividend in Turkey. Bogazici University Publications No. 581. Istanbul: Bogazici University Press (1996).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Emeritus Professor of Economics, Bogazici University; Consultant, World Bank; Consultant, OECD Centre; Consultant, Central Bank of Malaysia.
Research Interests: Ottoman and Turkish Economic History; Fiscal Policy; Economic Forecasting.

Name: PITTMAN, HOLLY, Professor; History of Art [Curator, Near East Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]
Education: B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton (1971); M.A., Columbia University (1975); M.Phil., Columbia University (1977); Ph.D., Columbia University (1989).
Courses: Art of the Ancient Near East; Art of Egypt and Mesopotamia; Art of Ancient Iran; Ancient World Cultures; Egyptian Art; Seminar in Neo-Assyrian Art.
Overseas Research Experience: Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Cyprus.
Recent Publications: "Preliminary Report on the Administrative Artifacts: Hacinebi Tepe - 1997 Season." Segment of "Hacinebi, Turkey: Preliminary Report on the 1995 Excavations" Edited by Gil Stein, et al. Anatolica 24 (1998); "Uruk colonies and Anatolian communities: an interim report on the 1992-1993 excavations at Hacinebi, Turkey." American Journal of Archaeology 100: 2 (1996); "The Glazed Glyptic Style: The Structure and Function of an Image System in the Administration of Protoliterate Mesopotamia." In Berliner Beitrage zum Vorderen Orient. Edited by Volkert Haas, et al. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag (1994).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Senior Fellow, Louis J. Kolb Foundation (2001-02); Selection Committee, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies (2001-02); American Philosophical Society Grant (1994);
Research Interests: Ancient Near Eastern Art; Glyptic Art.

Name: RAHMOUNI, AICHA, Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Education: B.A., Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco (1989); M.A., Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1994); Ph.D., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel (2001).
Languages: Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, French, Akkadian, Aramaic, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Arabic, Ugaritic.
Overseas Research Experience: Israel, Spain.
Courses: Arabic, Ugaritic.
Recent Publications: Epithets of Gods in the Ugaritic Texts (forthcoming 2005); "Hacia una aproximaxion metodologica al estudio de filologia semitica comparada." Sefradad (forthcoming 2005); "The Term prz in Ugaritic - Hurrian Texts: A Possible Ugaritic-Hurrian Epithet Component." General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi 11.1, eds. D. I. Owen and G. Wilhelm. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press (2004); "Dieu le pere? Reflexions sur Il et Ab," with J. M. de Tarragon, in Hommage au professeur N. Wyatt. (2002); "Textos arabes de Chefchaouen: Transcripcion, traduccion y glosario." Estudios de dialectologia norteafricana y andalusi, eds. J. Aguade, F. Corriente, et al. (1996).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Research Fellow, The Society for the Humanities, Cornell University (2004-05); Post-doctorate Research Fellow, Council of Higher Education, Jerusalem (1998-2001); Research Fellow, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva (1997-98); Research Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1996-97); Academic Exchange Grant (Hebrew University and Universidad Complutense de Madrid) (1995-96).
Research Interests: Comparative Semitic Philology; Teaching Regional Dialects.

Name: REICHER, HARRY, Adjunct Professor, Law School.
Education: B.A., Monash University; LL.B., Monash University; LL.M., University of Melbourne; LL.M., Harvard University.
Courses: International Law and the Middle East Conflict.
Recent Publications: The Middle East Conflict in International Law: Cases and Materials (6th Preliminary Edn. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2001); Law and the Holocaust: Cases and Materials (5th Preliminary Edn. University of Pennsylania Law School, 2002); Australian International Law: Cases and Materials. Sydney: Law Book Company (1995); "The Interface of Halacha and the Secular Legal System: The Australian Experience," in Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Conference of the Jewish Law Association (1994).
Research Interests: Holocaust Law, International Human Rights.

Name: RUDERMAN, DAVID, Professor; History
Education: B.A., City College of New York; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Hebrew University.
Languages: Hebrew, Italian, French, German.
Courses: History of Jewish Civilization II; Modern Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History; Jews and Christians in the Renaissance.
Overseas Research Experience: Israel, Italy, Czech Republic.
Recent Publications: Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key : Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (2000); The Jewish Past Revisited: Reflections on Modern Jewish Historians. Edited with David Meyers. University of Pennsylvania Center for Judaic Studies Series in Jewish Culture and Society. New Haven: Yale University Press (1998).
Research Interests: Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History; Jewish Mysticism, Philosophy and Science.

Name: RUSHDIE, EMAD, Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & Arabic Language Program Coordinator
Education: B.S., Cairo University (1988); M.A. American University
in Cairo.
Languages: Arabic.
Courses:Elementary Arabic I & II, Advanced Arabic and Syntax
Research Interest: Teaching and learning Arabic grammar

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Name: SATATY, NECHAMA, Senior Lecturer; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Education: B.A., University of Haifa (1971); High School Teaching Certificate, Haifa University (1972); M.A., University of Haifa (1973); Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1986).
Languages: Hebrew.
Courses: Elementary Modern Hebrew I; Elementary Modern Hebrew II; Intermediate Modern Hebrew III; Intermediate Modern Hebrew IV.
Language Pedagogy Training: Israel Teaching Certificate, Collge of the Kibbutzim Oranim (1965)
Overseas Research Experience: Israel.
Recent Publications: "The American Performance of Sobol's ShooHng Magda." Hadoar LXVI, 1987; "The Jewish Press in America: An Exhibition in the National Museum of Jewish History in Philadelphia." Hadoar LXVII, 1987.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Marguerite R. Jacobs Memorial Post-Doctoral Fellowship in American Jewish Studies, Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, OH (1987); American Association of University Women fellowship (1982-93).
Research Interests: Hebrew Language and Literature; Poetry and Music.

Name: SHARKEY, HEATHER, Associate Professor; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Education: B.A., Yale Univ. (1990); M.Phil., Univ. of Durham (1992); Ph.D., Princeton Univ.(1997).
Languages: Arabic, French, German.
Courses: History of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Relations in the Middle East; North Africa since 1830; Iraq, Egypt, Algeria (Comparative Studies of the Arab World); Nationalism in the Middle East; Introduction to the Middle East.
Overseas Research Experience: Egypt, Sudan, Israel, United Kingdom, Norway.
Recent Publications: American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press (2008). Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Berkeley: University of California Press (2003); “Muslim Apostasy, Christian Conversion, and Religious Freedom in Egypt: A Study of American Missionaries, Western Imperialism, and Human Rights Agendas”, in Rosalind I.J. Hackett (Ed.), Proselytization Revisited: Rights, Free Markets, and Culture Wars (London: Equinox, 2008); “Umm Kulthum at the American University in Cairo: A Study in the Clash of Christianities,” in Narrating the Nile: Politics, Cultures, Identities, Ed. Israel Gershoni and Meir Hatina (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008); “Arab Identity and Ideology in Sudan: The Politics of Language, Ethnicity, and Race,” African Affairs, 107:426 (2008); “Missionary Legacies: Muslim-Christian Encounters in Egypt and Sudan during the Colonial and Postcolonial Periods,” in Benjamin F. Soares (Ed.), Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa (Brill: Leiden, 2006); “Arabic Poetry, Nationalism, and Social Change: Sudanese Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives”, in Yasir Suleiman & Ibrahim Muhawi (Eds.), Literature and Nation in the Middle East, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006); “Empire and Muslim Conversion: Historical Reflections on Christian Missions in Egypt,” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 16:1 (2005); "Globalization, Migration and Identity: Sudan, 1800-2000," in Birgit Schaebler & Leif Stenberg (Eds.), Globalization and the Muslim World (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2004); “Christians Among Muslims: The Church Missionary Society in the Northern Sudan,” Journal of African History 43 (2002); “A Century in Print: Arabic Journalism and Nationalism in the Sudan, 1899-1999,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 31:4 (1999)
Representative Awards and Distinctions: SAS Instructional Technology Grant (University of Pennsylvania) for a project on "Judeo-Arabic Culture and Its Place in Islamic Societies" (2008); Selection as Penn faculty fellow in Penn Humanities Forum for 2009-10 academic year; Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Scholars Fellowship (2006); American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant (2005); University Research Foundation Grant, University of Pennsylvania (2005); Honorable Mention, Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association (2003); Center for Arabic Study Abroad Faculty Fellowship (2001); Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention), Middle East Studies Association (1998);Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (1995-96); Marshall Scholarship for Study in the United Kingdom (1990-92).
Research Interests: Modern Middle Eastern and African History; History of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Relations; Anglo-American Evangelical Missions; Nationalism, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism.

Name: SILVERMAN, DAVID, Professor; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations [Curator-in-Charge, Egyptian Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]
Education: B.A., Rutgers University (1966); Ph.D., University of Chicago (1975).
Languages: Egyptian, Sumerian, Akkadian.
Courses: Old Egyptian Texts; Middle Egyptian; Word and Image: The Unity of Art and Writing in Ancient Egypt; Literary Legacy of Ancient Egypt; Religion of Ancient Egypt.
Overseas Research Experience: Egypt.
Recent Publications: Searching for Ancient Egypt. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (1997); "An Eighteenth Dynasty Litany from the Tomb of Merneith." In Studies in Honor of Edward F. Wente. Chicago: Oriental Institute Press (1996);Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997; Ancient Egyptian Kingship. Leiden: E.J. Brill (1995).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Elected Senior Fellow of the Kolb Foundation (1996); University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation grant (1996, 1992, 1986); National Endowment for the Humanities Field Research Grant (1990-92); National Endowment for the Humanities Translation Grant (1984-85, 1985-86).
Research Interests: Ancient Egyptian Epigraphy.

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Name: SPOONER, BRIAN, Professor; Anthropology, [Curator, Near East Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]
Education: B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Oxford University (1960, 1964, 1967).
Languages: Persian, Dari, Tajiki, Arabic, Baluchi, Russian, Turkish, French, Italian, German, Urdu, Pashto.
Courses: Globalization, Iraq and Iran, Culture and Conflict in International Relations.
Overseas Research Experience: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Egypt, India, Sudan.
Recent Publications: "Ethnography." In Encyclopedia Iranica, Vol. 9 (1998); Reading Nasta'liq: Persian and Urdu Hands, 1500 to the Present. With William H. Hanaway. Costa Meza, CA: Mazda Publications (1995); "Are We Teaching Persian? Or Farsi? Or Dari? Or Tojiki?" in Persian Studies in American. Edited by Mehdi Marashi. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press (1993).
Research Interests: Islam and Society; South and Central Asia; Globalization; Persian Diplomatics.

Name: SRYFI, MBAREK, Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Education: B.A., University of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, Fez, Morocco (1990); M.A., Ecole Normale Superieure, Rabat, Morocco (1995). Currently a graduate student in the PhD. program in Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at Penn.
Languages: Arabic, French, English, Spanish and Hebrew
Courses: Elementary and Intermediate Arabic, Advanced Arabic Conversation, Moroccan Dialect.
Research Interests: Modern Arabic Literature, Moroccan Literature, Technology and Language Acquisition, and translation.

Name: STERN, DAVID, Professor; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Education: B.A., Columbia University (1972); Ph.D., Harvard University (1980).
Languages: Biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Aramaic.
Courses: Ancient Interpretation of the Bible; Studies in Rabbinic Literature; Studies in Midrashic Literature; Classical Midrash and Agadah; Siddur and Piyyut; Talmudic Midrashic Literature; Seminar in Rabbinic Literature.
Overseas Research Experience: Israel.
Recent Publications: "Vayikra Rabbah and My Life in Midrash." Prooftexts 21, 2001; Rabbinic Fantasies: Imaginative Narratives from Classical Hebrew Literature. With Mark J. Mirsky. Yale Judaica Series. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998; "The Captive Woman: Hellenization, Greco-Roman Erotic Narrative, and Rabbinic Literature." Poetics Today 19, 1998; Midrash and Theory: Ancient Jewish Exegesis and Contemporary Literary Studies. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1996;
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Institute for Advanced Studies (Hebrew University), Associated Fellowship (1999-2000); National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (1999-2000); American Philosophical Society Research Grant (1996); Program in Alternative Thinking (Tel Aviv) Fellowship (1994-95);
Research Interests: Biblical, Midrashic and Rabbinic Literature.

Name: TIGAY, JEFFREY, Professor; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Education: B.A., Columbia University (1963); M.A., Jewish Theological Seminary of American (JTSA) School of Judaica (1966); JTSA Graduate Rabbinical School (1968); Ph.D., Yale University (1971).
Languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Akkadian, Sumerian, Greek, French, German.
Courses: Introduction to the Bible; Book of the Bible; Seminar in Biblical Studies.
Overseas Research Experience: Israel.
Recent Publications: "The Presence of God and the Coherence of Exodus 20:22-26," pp. 195-211 in Sefer Moshe: The Moshe Weinfeld Jubilee Volume. Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, Qumran and Post-Biblical Judaism, ed. C. Cohen, A. Hurvitz, and S.M. Paul (Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns); "What's in a Name?" Bible Review 20/1 (February), pp. 34-43, 47-48, 50-51; "The Evolution of the Pentateuchal Narratives in Light of the Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic." In Studies in Biblical History. Edited by M. Cogan. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 1997; JPS Torah Commentary: Deuteronomy. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1996.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (1995); Lucius N. Littauer Foundation grant (1994); Annenberg Research Institute Fellowship (1991-92); Scholar-in-Residence, Jewish Publication Society of America (1986-87).
Research Interests: Early Jewish Religious Texts and Theology; Biblical Literature.

Name: TINNEY, STEPHEN, Assistant Professor; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, [Associate Curator, Babylonian Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]
Education: M.A., Cambridge University (1984); Ph.D., University of Michigan (1991).
Languages: Akkadian, Sumerian, Biblical Hebrew, French, German, Italian, Spanish.
Courses: Introductory Sumerian, Sumerian and Akkadian Texts; Land of Sumer.
Recent Publications: "Notes on Sumerian Sexual Lyric." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 59, 2000; "Texts, Tablets, and Teaching: Scribal Education in Nippur and Ur." Expedition 40, 1998; The Nippur Lament: Royal Rhetoric and Divine Legitimation in the Reign of Išme-Dagan of Isin (1953-1935 B.C.). Philadelphia, PA: Samuel Noah Kramer Fund, 1996.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: University of Pennsylvania Museum Research and Travel Grant (1995-96); Horace H. Rackman Graduate School Predoctoral Fellowship (1990-91); Horace H. Rackman Graduate School Dissertation Travel and Research Fellowship (1990);
Research Interests: Sumerian and Akkadian Historical Texts.

Name: TROUTT POWELL, EVE, Assoc. Professor, History
Education: B.A., magna cum laude, Harvard University (1983); M.A., Harvard University (1988); PhD, Harvard University (1995).
Languages: Arabic, French
Courses: History of the Middle East Since 1800; Religion, Revolution and Nationalism in the Modern Middle East; Filming the Middle East
Overseas Research Experience: Egypt, Great Britain, Sudan
Recent Publications: A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egyptian Nationalists and the Mastery of the Sudan, 1875-1925. University of California Press, 2003. The Same But Different: Documents on African Slavery in the Islamic Mediterranean (19th-20th Centuries), eds. John Hunwick and Eve M. Troutt Powell. Markus Wiener Press, Inc. 2002. “Will that Subaltern Ever Speak?: Finding African Slaves in the Historiography of the Middle East” in Narrating History: Histories and Historiographies of the Twentieth-Century Middle East, eds. Israel Gershoni, Amy Singer and Hakan Erdem. University of Washington Press, 2006. “Sainted Slave: Bakhita in the Memories of Southern Sudanese” in Race and Identity in the Nile Valley: Ancient and Modern Perspectives, eds. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban and Kharyssa Rhodes (Red Sea Press, 2004) “Slaves or Siblings: The Family in the Dialogues of `Abdallah al-Nadim” in Histories of the Modern Middle East, eds. Hakan Erdem, Israel Gershoni and Ursula Wokoeck ( Lynne Rienner Press, Inc.2002.)
Representative Awards and Distinctions:Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow, 2005-06 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, 2003-2008 Center for Arabic Studies Abroad, Faculty Program (CASA III), Summer, 2004 Sudan Studies Association Merit Award, May, 2004
Research Interests: Slavery in the Nile Valley; Africa and the Middle East; Saint Josephine Bakhita; film

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Name: VITALIS, ROBERT, Assoc. Professor; Political Science
Education: B.A., State University of New York at Stonybrook (1978); M.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984); Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1989).
Languages: Arabic.
Courses: American in the Middle East; American Foreign Policy; Contemporary Politics of the Middle East.
Overseas Research Experience: Egypt, Israel, Gulf States.
Recent Publications: America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007); Counter-Narratives: History, Society and Politics in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, edited (New York: Palgrave/St. Martins Press, 2004), Madawi al-Rasheed, coeditor; “Alexandria Without Illusions,” in Deborah Starr, ed., Cosmopolitan Alexandria (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007) forthcoming; “Wallace Stegner’s Arabian Discovery: The Imperial Blind Spots in a Continental Vision,” Pacific Historical Review (2007) forthcoming; “What Remains Hidden in the “Debate” Between Hegemony and Empire,” in Charles-Philippe David and David Grondin, Hegemony or Empire? The Redefinition of Power Under George W. Bush (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), forthcoming;
“The Past is Another Country,” in Ellen Perecman and Sara R. Curran, eds, Finding a Method in the Madness: A Bibliography and Contemplative Essays on Method in the Social Sciences (New York: Sage, 2006): pp. 5-17; “Birth of a Discipline” in Imperialism and Internationalism in the Discipline of International Relations, edited by Brian Schmidt and David Long (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005), pp. 159-182
"International Studies in America." Social Science Research Council Items 3 (2002);"Black Gold, White Crude: An Essay on American Exceptionalism, Heirarchy, and Hegemony in the Gulf." Diplomatic History 26:2 (2002); "Crossing Exceptionalism's Frontiers to Discover America's Kingdom." Arab Studies Journal 6, 1998; "The New Deal in Egypt: The Rise of Anglo-American Commercial Competition in World War II and the Fall of Neocolonialism." Diplomatic History 20, 1996; "The End of Third Worldism in Egypt Studies." Arab Studies Journal 1:1 (1996); When Capitalists Collide: Business Conflict and the End of Empire in Egypt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995;
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars fellowship (2002-03,declined); International Center for Advanced Study fellowship, NYU, Fellowship (2002-03); ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies fellowship (2002-03); University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation grant (2001); Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics faculty research grant, University of Pennsylvania (2000 and 2001);Fellow, Penn Humanities Forum fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (2000); MacArthur-SSRC International Peace and Security Program fellowship (1998); American Political Science Association Centennial Research Award (1998).
Research Interests: Global Politics of Development; Business and Politics in Industrializing Societies.

Name: WAGNER, DANIEL, Professor; Psych. in Education, Graduate School of Education
Education: B.S., Cornell University (1968); M.A., University of Michigan (1971); Ph.D., University of Michigan (1976).
Languages: French, Spanish.
Courses: Education in Developing Countries; Research and Analysis.
Overseas Research Experience: Morocco.
Recent Publications: "Conceptual Dichotomies in the Future of Literacy Work Across Cultures." In Literacy and Motivation: Reading Engagement in Individuals and Groups. Edited by C. Snow and L. Verhoeven. NJ: L. Erlbaum (2001); "IT and Education for the Poorest of the Poor: Constraints, Possibilities, and Principles." TechKnowlogia: International Journal for the Advancement of Knowledge and Learning. Washington, D.C.: APA (2001); "Literacy and Adult Education." Global Thematic Review prepared for the U.N. World Education Forum. Paris: UNESCO (2000).
Representative Awards and Distinctions: National Technology Laboratory for Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education (2002-04); Grant funding for "EL Civics/ESL Connects" provided by PBS and the U.S. Department of Education; Grant funding for "Literacy and Its Consequences in Developing Countries: A Comparative Approach." provided by Spencer Foundation (2001-03).
Research Interests: International Issues in Education; Cultural Perspectives on Development.

Name: WEGNER, JOSEF, Assistant Professor; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, [Associate Curator, Egyptian Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]
Education: B.A., University of Pennsylvania (1989); Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
Languages: Middle, Late and Old Egyptian.
Courses: Non-Literary Late Egyptian; Egyptian Archaeology and History; Archaeology of Nubia; Archaeology and History of the Middle Kingdom; Egyptian Artifacts.
Overseas Research Experience: Egypt, Sudan.
Recent Publications: "Seat of Eternity: Excavations at Abydos Reveal an Elaborate Funerary Complex Linking a Deceased Middle Kingdom Pharaoh to the god Osiris." With Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner. Archaeology 54, 2001; "A Hundred Years at South Abydos; Reconstructing the Temple of Pharasoh Senwosret III." Expedition 42, 2000.
Representative Awards and Distinctions: National Science Foundation Anthropology Program Dissertation Enhancement grant (1996); Khouri Foundation Award for Doctoral Research (1995).
Research Interests: Ancient Egyptian and Nubian Art and Architecture.

Name: WHITE, SHANNON, Keeper of Near Eastern Collections; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology.
Education: B.A., University of Southern California (1992); M.A., University of Chicago (1995); Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, George Washington University (1997).
Overseas Research Experience: Jordan, Greece, Israel, U.K.
Recent Publications: "An Alabaster Mystery." Expedition 44:1(2001).
Research Interests: Biblical Archaeology, Historical Preservation.

Name: ZETTLER, RICHARD, Associate Professor; Anthropology, [Curator-in-Charge, Near East Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]
Education: B.A., University of Notre Dame (1972); M.A., University of Chicago (1974); Ph.D., University of Chicago (1984).
Languages: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Spanish.
Courses: Origin and Culture of Cities; Mesopotamia: Heartland of Cities and Empires; Introduction to Archaeology of Historical Periods of Mesopotamia; Urbanism in Historical and Cultural Perspectives; The Sumerians; Near Eastern Prehistory: Urbanism.
Overseas Research Experience: Syria, Iraq.
Recent Publications: "Excavating an Enigma: Tell es-Sweyhat." Expedition 44:1 (2002); "A Hundred Years at South Abydos; Reconstructing the Temple of Pharasoh Senwosret III." Expedition 44:2 (2000); Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur. Edited with Lee Horne. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (1998); Subsistence and Settlement in a Marginal Environment : Tell es-Sweyhat, 1989-1995 Preliminary Report. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (1997).
Research Interests: Urbanization in Mesopotamia; Near Eastern Archaeology.

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