Faculty

Professors

Ahmad Alqassas

Professor
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies | Linguistics

Jonathan Brown

Professor | Chair, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization

Associate Professors

Elliott Colla

Associate Professor

Felicitas Opwis

Associate Professor | Director of Graduate Studies

Assistant Professors

Rodrigo Adem

Assistant Professor

Sara Omar

Assistant Professor | Director of Undergraduate Studies

Associate Teaching Professors

Ghayda Al Ali

Associate Teaching Professor

Elham Alzoubi

Associate Teaching Professor

Belkacem Baccouche

Associate Teaching Professor

Assistant Teaching Professors

Khalil Derbel

Lecturer

Mohammad Fakhreddine

Assistant Teaching Professor

Emeriti Faculty

Affiliated Faculty

Professors

• John Esposito, Ph.D. Temple University (Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, SFS) [Retired]
• Yvonne Haddad, Ph.D. Hartford Seminary (Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, SFS) [Retired]
• Paul Heck, Ph.D. University of Chicago (Department of Theology)
• Judith Tucker, Ph.D. Harvard University (Department of History) [Retired]
• John Voll, Ph.D. Harvard University (Department of History) [Retired]

Associate Professors

• Osama Abi-Mershed, Ph.D. Georgetown University (Department of History)
• Rochelle Davis, Ph.D. University of Michigan (Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, SFS)
• Amira El-Zein, Ph.D. Georgetown University (SFS-Q) 2019-2020
• Daniel Madigan, Ph.D. Columbia University (Department of Theology) [Emeritus]

Visiting Researchers

Lubna Muḥammad I. al-Shanquitiy
Department of General Courses, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah-Saudi Arabia

Mustafa Muhammad T. BinMayaba
Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah-Saudi Arabia