FLAS Language Centers and Coordinators

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African Languages - Center for Africana Studies

• Web site: https://africana.sas.upenn.edu/center
• Coordinator: Dr. Ali Ali-Dinar, Senior Lecturer, aadinar@sas.upenn.edu or 215-898-6610
• Languages: Amharic, Igbo, Swahili, Tigrinya, Twi, Wolof, Yoruba, and Zulu

Middle East Center

• Web site: www.sas.upenn.edu/mec/
• Coordinator: Ibrahim Bakri, Assistant Director of the Middle East Center, bakrii@sas.upenn.edu or 215-898-6335
• Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian, Tajik, and Turkish
  

South Asia Center

• Web site: www.southasiacenter.upenn.edu
• Coordinator: Rachael Hickson, Associate Director, rhickson@sas.upenn.edu or 215-898-7476
• Languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Pashto, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan, and Urdu
  

Center for East Asian Studies

• Web site: ceas.sas.upenn.edu
• Coordinator: David Dettmann, Associate Director, dettmann@sas.upenn.edu or 215-573-4204
• Languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, and Tibetan