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Faculty

Our network includes the following faculty members of the Rutgers community:

Sadia Abbas
Associate Professor
Rutgers University – Newark

Jamal Ali 
Assistant Teaching Professor, Arabic Language
Rutgers University

Zahra Ali
Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Sociology and Anthropology
Rutgers University – Newark

Omar Al-Dewachi
Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology and Global Health
Rutgers University

Nermin Allam
Associate Professor
Rutgers University – Newark

Salam Al Kuntar
Lecturer Assistant Professor
Rutgers University

Mohamed Alsiadi
Coordinator of the Arabic Language and Cultural Studies Program
Rutgers University – Newark

Saladin Ambar 
Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University

Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular
Associate Professor and Director of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (MEIS) Minor

Rutgers University – Newark

Ntasha Bhardwaj
Researcher
Rutgers University – Newark

Zeynep Çelik
Distinguished Professor of Architecture
Rutgers University

Ali R. Chaudhary
Associate Professor
Rutgers University 

Karishma Desai
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University 

Aghil Daghagheleh
Doctoral Student Department of Sociology
Rutgers University 

Hebatalla Elkhateeb
Assistant Teaching Professor
Rutgers University 

E. Efe
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures
Rutgers University 

Noura Erakat 
Professor of Africana Studies
Rutgers University 

Howaida Wahby Eraky
Assistant Teaching Professor
Director of Rutgers English Language Institute
Rutgers University 

Sunanda Gaur, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Robert Wood Johnson AIDS Program
Rutgers University 

Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
Associate Professor
Rutgers University 

Mayte Green-Mercado
Associate Professor and RU-Newark Director of Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice
Rutgers University – Newark

Selin Bengi Gümrükçü
Lecturer, Department of Political Science
Rutgers University

Dalia Ibraheem
PhD Student, Department of Anthropology
Rutgers University

Hanan Kashou
Associate Teaching Professor and Arabic Language Coordinator at the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL)
Rutgers University

Yasmine Khayyat
Associate Professor Arabic Language and Literature
Rutgers University

Wendell Hassan Marsh
Assistant Professor, American Studies, Africana Studies, English
Rutgers University

Sirine Mechbal
Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology
Rutgers University

Alamin Mazrui
Professor, Sociolinguistics and Cultural Studies
Rutgers University

Amir Moosavi
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Rutgers University–Newark

Jawid Mojaddedi
Professor
Rutgers University

Nükhet Varlık
Associate Professor
Rutgers University-Newark

Doaa Rashed
Director, Language Engagement Project;
Associate Teaching Professor, SAS
Rutgers University

Zakia Salime
Associate Professor
Rutgers University

Zainab Tanvir
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University

Aslı Zengin
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University