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	Dr. Sahar Amer Professor samer@email.unc.edu 962-0112 New West 306 Fall 2009 office hours: TR 3:30-4:30 Orientalism;cross-cultural relations between the Arab world and Europe throughout the centuries; Arabs and Muslims in France and in American today; cross-cultural constructions of gender and sexualities
	Dr. Nadia Yaqub Associate Professor yaqub@email.unc.edu 843-8149 New West 210 On leave Fall 2009-Fall 2010 Arabic language and literature; oral Arabic poetry
	Dr. Yaron Shemer Assistant Professor Levine-Sklut Fellow in Jewish Studies yshemer@email.unc.edu 962-5428 New West 109 Fall 2009 office hours: T 2:30-3:30, R 9:30-10:30 Middle Eastern and Mizrahi (Arab-Jewish) film; contemporary Israeli culture; modern Hebrew instruction
	Ms. Doria El Kerdany Lecturer elkerdan@email.unc.edu 962-1037 New West 223 Fall 2009 office hours: T 11:00-12:30, WR 2:00-2:45 Arabic language instruction
	Ms. Luceil Friedman Lecturer lfried@email.unc.edu 962-6823 New West 125 Fall 2009 office hours: MW 3:00-4:00 Modern Hebrew language instruction
	Mr. Nasser Isleem Lecturer nmisleem@email.unc.edu 843-7055 New West 223 Fall 2009 office hours: M 11:00-12:00, TR 1:45-2:45 Arabic language instruction
	Mr. Charles Joukhadar Lecturer cjoukhad@email.unc.edu New West 223 Fall 2009 office hours: M 1:00-2:00, TW 10:00-11:00 Arabic language instruction
	Ms. Zahra Kamarei Adjunct Instructor zkamarei@email.unc.edu 962-2323 365 Phillips Fall 2009 office hours: W 11:00-11:55, F 1:00-2:00 Persian language instruction
	Mr. Michael Rulon Teaching Associate 843-2289 mrulon@email.unc.edu Dey 342 Fall 2009 office hours: M 11:00-12:00, W 1:00-2:00, R 10:00-11:00 Arabic language instruction
	Dr. Canguzel Zulfikar Lecturer canguzel@email.unc.edu GEC 3023 Fall 2009 office hours: M 11:00-12:00, W 2:00-3:00 Turkish language instruction

Affiliated Faculty

Dr. Glaire Anderson	Assistant Professor, Art glaire@email.unc.edu Hanes Art Center 203 843-6048 Islamic art, architecture, and urbanism; villas, gardens, and court cultures; Orientalism and visual culture, and the Historiography of Islamic Art
Dr. Carl Ernst	Professor, Religious Studies cernst@email.unc.edu 962-3924 107 Saunders Hall Islamic studies; mysticism; South Asian and Middle Eastern studies
Dr. Banu Gokariksel	Assistant Professor, Geography banug@email.unc.edu 307 Saunders Hall 843-5835 Modernity, cultural politics, and urban space in contemporary Istanbul and Jakarta
Dr. Charles Kurzman	Associate Professor, Sociology kurzman@email.unc.edu 962-1241 227 Hamilton Hall Iranian Revolution and other Islamic movements
Dr. Omid Safi	Professor, Religious Studies omid@email.unc.edu 130 Saunders Hall 962-4890 Progressive Islamic thought; social and intellectual history of pre-modern Islam; Islamic mysticism
Dr. Sarah Shields	Associate Professor, History sshields@email.unc.edu 962-8078 422 Hamilton Hall Islamic civilization

Last updated: 19 October 2009