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Khalid Ahmed

Khalid Ahmed

Assistant Teaching Professor
khalid4@uw.edu
Office Hours: Wed 11:30-1:00
Denny 243
Arabic, Language, Literature
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Terri Deyoung

Terri L. DeYoung

Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator
tdeyoung@uw.edu / (206) 543-6184
Office Hours: By appointment
Denny 246
Arabic, Culture, Egypt, Film/Cinema, Iraq, Islamic Studies, Language, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Philosophy, Rhetoric and Composition
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Hussein Elkhafaifi

Hussein Elkhafaifi

Associate Professor
hme3@uw.edu / (206) 543-9596
Office Hours: By appointment
Denny M 220C
Applied Linguistics, Arabic, Arabic Language and Culture, Comparative Linguistics, Culture, Dialects, Ideology, Language, Language Pedagogy, Language Pedagogy and Curriculum Development, Linguistics, Multilingualism, Nationalism, Teacher Education and Training.
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Aria Fani

Assistant Professor, Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professorship in Persian and Iranian Studies, Director of Persian and Iranian Studies Program
ariafani@uw.edu / (206) 616-2390
Office Hours: T-Th 12:30-1:30
Denny 233
Comparative Literature, Iranian Studies, Language Pedagogy, Modern Persian Literature, Nationalism, Persian, Translation Studies
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Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz

Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz

Assistant Teaching Professor
hadarkh@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment.
Hebrew, Language, Literature
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Nida Kiali

Nida Kiali

Predoctoral Instructor
nidak@uw.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday, 12:30 to 2:00 PM
Arabic, Hebrew, Islamic Civilizations, Islamic Studies
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Selim Kuru

Selim Sırrı Kuru

Associate Professor, Director of Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program
selims@uw.edu / (206) 543-4959
Office Hours: by appointment through email
Denny 220F
History, Islamic Studies, Literature, Medieval, Ottoman Turkish, Poetry and Poetics, Sexuality, Textual Studies, Turkish
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Talant Mawkanuli

Talant Mawkanuli

Associate Teaching Professor, Director of Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Program
tmawkan@uw.edu
Office Hours: TTh 10:00-11:00 or by appointment
Denny 241
Central Eurasian, China, Endangered Languages, Historical Linguistics, Islamic Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Sociocultural Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Turkic
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Scott Noegel

Scott Noegel

Professor, Director of Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East Program
snoegel@uw.edu
Antiquity, Aramaic, Art History, Assyrian, Babylonian, Biblical Hebrew, Classics, Egyptology, History, Literature, Medieval, Music, Religion, Sumerian, Ugaritic
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Maral Sahebjame

Predoctoral Instructor
marals@uw.edu
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Stephanie Selover

Stephanie Selover

Assistant Professor
sselover@uw.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:30-1:30, washington.zoom.us/j/94447103017
Denny M 220E
Anatolia, Ancient, Archaeology, Bible Studies, Biblical Hebrew, Near Eastern Studies, Violence and Trauma, War and Terror
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Shahrzad Shams

Shahrzad Shams

Assistant Teaching Professor
shshams@uw.edu
Office Hours: W 12:30-2:00
Denny 237
Language, Literature, Persian
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Professor Naomi Sokoloff

Naomi B. Sokoloff

Chair, Professor, Director of Modern Hebrew and Israel Studies Program
naosok@uw.edu / (206) 543-7145
Office Hours: W 11:00-12:30
Denny 220C
Comparative Literature, Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Literary Criticism
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Makda Weatherspoon

Makda Weatherspoon

Visiting Senior Lecturer
mgw49@uw.edu
Denny 220A
Arabic, Language Pedagogy, Media Studies, Near Eastern Studies
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Melike Yucel-Koc

Assistant Teaching Professor
yucelm@uw.edu / (206) 685-0324
Office Hours: by Appointment Only
Denny M 220F
Bilingualism, Comparative Linguistics, Education, Language Awareness, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Near Eastern Studies, Oral History, Pedagogy, Second Language Reading, Turkish
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Hamza Zafer

Hamza M. Zafer

Associate Professor
hmzafer@uw.edu / (206) 685-5084
Office Hours: T 5:00-6:30
Denny 220B
Arabic, Language, Literature
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Emeritus Faculty

Nicholas Heer

Nicholas Heer

Professor
heer@uw.edu
Arabic, Islamic Studies, Language, Literature, Philosophy
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Gary Martin

Gary Martin

Teaching Professor Emeritus
garmar@uw.edu
Biblical Hebrew, Middle Eastern Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Textual Studies
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Michael Williams

Michael A. Williams

Professor
maw@uw.edu / (206) 543-4950
Thomson 426
Antiquity, Biblical Hebrew, Coptic Language, Early Christianity, Religion
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Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

Name Title Email / Phone
Ahuvia, Mika Adjunct in NELC, Associate Professor, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies mahuvia@uw.edu
Bet-Shlimon, Arbella Adjunct in NELC, Associate Professor, Department of History shlimon@uw.edu
Chen, Annie T. Assistant Professor, SOM: Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education
Clauss, Jim Adjunct in NELC, Professor, Department of Classics jjc@uw.edu
Dhavan, Purnima Adjunct Associate in NELC, Associate Professor, Department of History pdhavan@uw.edu
Holmes-Eber, Paula Affiliate Professor , Middle East Center, Jackson School of International Studies pholmese@uw.edu
Kasaba, Resat Adjunct in NELC , Professor and Director of the Jackson School of International Studies kasaba@uw.edu
Ketchley, Sarah Affiliate Instructor ketchley@uw.edu
Lombardi, Clark Professor
Mosca, Matthew W Adjunct in NELC, Associate Professor - Joint Appointment: Jackson School of International Studies Director of Graduate Studies The Col. Donald W. Wiethuechter, USA Ret. Endowed Faculty Fellow in the History of War and Society mosca@uw.edu
Nickelsburg, George Emeritus, Department of Religious Studies
Osanloo, Arzoo Adjunct in NELC, Professor, Department of Law, Societies, and Justice aosanloo@uw.edu
Radnitz, Scott Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies , Adjunct in NELC srad@uw.edu
(206) 543-2467
Reid, Donald M. Affiliate in NELC, Emeritus, Department of History dreid@gsu.edu
Robinson, Cabeiri Associate Professor
Samini, Naghmeh Affiliate Assistant Professor nsamini@uw.edu
Walker, Joel Adjunct in NELC, Associate Professor, Department of History jwalker@uw.edu

In Memoriam

Name Title
Andrews, Walter Research Professor Emeritus
Cirtautas, Ilse Emeritus Professor
Ziadeh, Farhat J. Emeritus Professor
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