Council on Middle East Studies

Visiting Professors and Fellows

 
Rania Al-Jazairi

Visiting Fellow
First Social Affairs Officer, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Research Interest: Transitional Justice in Syria: the Role and Contribution of Syrian Refugees to the Establishment of Truth Commissions.

Marco DeMichelis
Visiting Fellow
Research Fellow in Islamic Studies and History of Middle East, Catholic University of Milan.
Research Interest: Study on the doctrine of Universal Salvation within the debates among Mu’tazilites and Maturidite authors

Yasmine Farouk
Visiting Fellow
Assistant Professor, Economics and Political Science
Cairo University
Research Interest: The analysis of the foreign policy making process and outcome of Arab states, the autocratic nature of the regimes, and the structure of regional international relations.

Hania Sholkamy
Carnegie Centennial Scholar and Junior Fellow
Associate Professor, Social Research Center at American University in Cairo
Research Interest: Fields of health, particularly reproductive health, gender, population and qualitative methods
 

Post-Doctoral Associates

Eric van Lit
Post-Doctoral Associate and Lecturer in Middle East and Islamic Studies
Research Interest: Islamic theology and the continuation of the falsafa tradition within kalam literature
Teaching: Sufism and Ethics in the Works of al-Ghazali (Spring 2015)