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	Dr. Sahar Amer Associate Professor samer@email.unc.edu 962-0112 New West 306 Spring 2008 office hours: TR 12:30-1:30 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 Spring 2008 office hours: T 2-2:50, R 8:30-9:30 Arabic language and literature; oral Arabic poetry
	Dr. Nasser Isleem Lecturer nmisleem@email.unc.edu 843-7055 New West 223 Spring 2008 office hours: TR 12:20-1:20 Arabic language instruction
	Ms. Luceil Friedman Lecturer lfried@email.unc.edu 962-6823 New West 125 Spring 2008 office hours: M 4:15-5:15, W 4-5 Modern Hebrew language instruction
	Ms. Zahra Kamarei Adjunct Instructor zkamarei@email.unc.edu 962-2323 365 Phillips Spring 2008 office hours: Persian language instruction
	Mr. Ahmad Asfour Lecturer amasfour@email.unc.edu 843-7055 New West 223 Spring 2008 office hours: M 9-10 AM Arabic language instruction
	Ms. Samar Al-Shawa Assistant in Arabic sshawa@email.unc.edu 843-7055 New West 223 Spring 2008 office hours: M 10-11 Arabic 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: 10 June 2008